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n origin. It was used by many noble families known as '' szlachta'' in Polish in

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, branches of the original medieval Odrowążowie family as well as families connected with the Clan by adoption.

History

Okolski tells that the progenitor of this clan cut off both halves of the moustache of an adversary at a jousting match, and the flesh with it, with the arrow. Bogdan Balbin in notes to Epitome "Rerum Bohemicarum" ummary of Bohemian Affairs chapter 15, calls the arms of the Odrowaz family Sagitta circumflexa bent arrow" and adds that some of the earliest houses in Bohemia bore these arms, of whom Tobias was Bishop of Prague, during the times of Premysl Otakar II. In German the arms are known as a "Bartausreisser"

Blazon

Arms: Gules, an arrow in pale point to chief, the base double sarcelled and counter embowed, Argent. Out of a crest coronet a panache of peacock plumes proper, charged with the arms in fess. The shield is red, upon which is a silver arrow pointing upward, and the bottom is divided and curved on both ends. Out of a helmeted crown is a display of peacock plumes, upon which can be seen lying on its side the device as pictured on the shield. The tinctures (colors) are: azure = blue; gules = red; sable = black; or = gold; argent = silver; vert = green. In heraldry all charges (pictures) on a shield are assumed to be facing dexter (right side)."Herbarz Polski" (by Kasper Niesiecki, S. J.,

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edition, 1839–1846)

Notable bearers

Notable bearers of this coat of arms include: *

House of Odrowąż A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condi ...

** Jacek Odrowąż ** Czesław Odrowąż **

Iwo Odrowąż Iwo Odrowąż (died 21 August 1229) was a medieval Polish humanist, statesman, and bishop. Life Iwo was very probably born in Końskie, son of Szaweł Odrowąż and a member of the noble family of Odrowąż. He studied in Bologna and Paris, maint ...

** Jan Odrowąż from

Sprowa Sprowa is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Słupia, within Jędrzejów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately west of Słupia, west of Jędrzejów, and south-west of the regiona ...

Zofia Odrowąż Zofia Odrowąż (1537–1580) was a Polish noblewoman. She was the daughter of castellan and voivode Stanisław Odrowąż and only daughter of Anna of Masovia, last Masovian duchess of the Piast dynasty, and became the widow of the castellan ...

** Stanisław Odrowąż **

Andrzej Odrowąż Andrzej of Sprowa Odrowąż was a 15th-century Polish noble and statesman, starost of Ruthenia and Voivode of Podolia. He is best known as the founder of the Bernardine Church in Lwów. Polish nobility Polish Roman Catholics Year o ...

Joachim Chreptowicz Joachim Chreptowicz pseud.: ''Jeden z współziomków'' (4 January 1729, Jasieniec near Navahradak – 4 March 1812), of Odrowąż Coat of Arms, was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, writer, poet, politician of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, marshal ...

* Eugen Ritter von Sypniewski-Odrowaz * Sypniewski ** Bonifacius Sypniewski ** Stanisław Sypniewski ** Feliks Sypniewski ** Felicjan Sypniewski * Jan Chryzostom Pieniążek * House of Szydłowiecki ** Jakub Szydłowiecki ** Elżbieta Szydłowiecka **

Krzysztof Szydłowiecki Krzysztof Szydłowiecki (1467–1532) was a Polish noble ( szlachcic), magnate, and Count of Szydłowiec. He was courtier since 1496, Podstoli of Kraków, Treasurer and Marshal of the Court of Prince Zygmunt since 1505, Podkomorzy of Kra ...

** Zofia Szydłowiecka *

Piotr Wysocki Piotr Wysocki (10 September 1797 in Warka – 6 January 1875 there), was a Polish captain and leader of the Polish conspiracy against Russian Tsar Nicolas I. He was a nobleman ('' szlachcic'') who bore the Odrowąż coat of arms. On 29 November ...

* Maciej Szukiewicz * Wojciech Szukiewicz * Władysław Starewicz * Zygmunt Pacanowski

Gallery

file:Geneseos.jpg, Nobilitation of the House of Odrowąż, ''Liber Genesos ilustris Familiae Shidlovicae'' file:Jan Sprowski.PNG, Jan Odrowąż from

, Archbishop of Poland and Lithuania file:Herb Odrowąż.jpg, Odrowąż Arms in the Castle of Szydłowiec file:Szydłowiecki krzysztofCOA.JPG, Coat of arms of Chancellor

file:Szydlowiecki przywilej opat.jpg, Chancellor Krzysztof Szydłowiecki

Bibliography

* Tadeusz Gajl: Herbarz polski od średniowiecza do XX wieku : ponad 4500 herbów szlacheckich 37 tysięcy nazwisk 55 tysięcy rodów. L&L, 2007. .

External links

* Odrowaz Coat of Arms and the bearers

References

Polish coats of arms * {{poland-heraldry-stub