An Ordinary of Siebmacher's Wappenbuch

by Sara L. Uckelman (Aryanhwy merch Catmael)

© 2012-2018 Sara L. Uckelman; all rights reserved
Last updated 25Oct18

This is an ongoing project to create an exhaustive ordinary of Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch from 1605. I am working from the digitization of it available here. If you find any error, please let me know. As a work in progress, it will be updated as I have time.

All blazons are my own. Note that in some cases, shields with a helmet facing sinister have had their arms reversed as well (e.g., a bend is displayed as a bend sinister, the tinctures of the field reversed, etc. So if you think you've found an error, double check the helm on top!) Each blazon is identified with the name of the owner as it appears in Siebmacher, with these conventions: I have transcribed vocalic v as u, and expanded , Gē:, and to en, genannt, and Von, respectively. The number in parentheses is the plate number on which the arms occur.


BEAST - Bear - Sable

Argent, a bear rampant contourny sable, Appenzell (222).

Argent, a bear rampant sable, die Eber (148).

Argent, a bear statant erect sable, von Bernstein (155).

Argent, a bear statant sable, die Beern (183).

Or, a bear rampant sable and in sinister chief a mullet of six points gles, von Moss (202).

Or, a bear salient sable, von Bernstat (110).

Or, a bear statant erect sable collared gules, S. Gallen (222).

Per bend argent and gules, a bear passant up the line of division sable, die Karg (81).

Quarterly 1st and 4th Or, a bear rampant sable, 2nd and 3rd checky gules and argent, die Spiller (35).


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