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.


FIELD, DIVIDED - Per pale - Or - and sable

Per pale Or and sable, von Buchwitz (58), von Watzdorf (164).

Per pale Or and sable, a crescent moon and in chief three mullets of six points counterchanged, von Bodenstein (182).

Per pale Or and sable, a demi-fess sable charged with a mullet of six points Or, and a increscent moon Or, die Herman (214).

Per pale Or and sable, in pale three stag's attires fesswise counterchanged, Backnang (226).

Per pale sable and Or, in canton a mullet of eight points argent, die Zuckmantel (195).

Per pale sable and Or, two bars counterchanged, die Flachen von Schwartzenberg (125).

Quarterly 1st and 4th per pale sable and Or, a fleur-de-lys counterchanged, 2nd per pale engrailed sable and argent, 3rd per pale invected sable and argent, von Sallnburg (34).

Quarterly 1st per bend argent and gules, 2nd and 3rd per pale Or and sable, a nail counterchanged, 4th per bend gules and argent, overall an escutcheon per bend gules and argent, in honor point a hand grasping a spike argent, die Artsteter (37).


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