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 - Lion - 1 - Multicolor

Azure, a lion barry gules and argent, a bordure sable, Allendorf an der Löhn (223).

Azure, a lion lozengy argent and gules crowned Or, von Bodendorf (179).

Or, a lion per fess gules and vert, von Schönberg (152), von Schönberg (164).

Per bend sinister sable and Or, a lion counterchanged, die Fentzl (35).

Per fess argent and gules, a lion counterchanged, die Störn (88).

Per fess azure and argent, a lion counterchanged, von Könispergen Nagel (196).

Per fess gules and azure, a lion counterchanged, von Adelsbach (52).

Per pale gules and Or, a lion crowned counterchanged, die Schetzel zu Merxhausen (134).

Quarterly 1st and 4th per bend sable and Or, a lion rampant counterchanged, 2nd and 3rd argent, in pall three lozenges gules, Praun (29).


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