Pomian is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several

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families in the times of the

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History

On the shield is the black head of a bison on a yellow field, with a sword driven into the head so that both the top and the bottom of the sword are visible. Above the helmet on the crown is an arm in armor with a bare hand holding a sword. The origin of this coat-of-arms can be traced back to 1279, when Hebda, brother of Jaranda, performed public deeds of merit to atone for the sins of his murdered brother. One of his brave acts was the killing of a bison that had been plaguing the village of Lubania. During the reign of Walter II, King of Poland, the bison head was placed on the shield and the arm with a sword was placed above the crown and was named Pomian. This is a communal coat-of-arms and is shared by other Great Polish Families.

Blazon

The Pomian coat of arms, being borne by multiple families, as with most Polish armorial bearings, has multiple variations to the basic design. The design as shown in the example image on this page may be blazoned as follows:
''Arms: Or, a buffalo's head caboshed, sable, pierced with a sword, proper. Mantling: Sable, doubled Or. Crest: Out of a ducal coronet, an arm embowed in armor holding in its hand a sword, proper.''

Notable bearers

Notable bearers of this coat of arms include: * Bohdan Andrejewicz Sakowicz * Alfred Niezychowski * Stanislaw Kobierzycki, Kasztelan Gdański, Author and Historian, Gdansk, Poland b.1600-d.1665. * Wladyslaw Aleksander Lubienski, Primate of Poland * Swietoslaw Jana Kobierzycki, Canon Cathedral Plock. * Zophia Kobierzycka, consort to

Stefan Czarniecki Stefan Czarniecki (Polish: of the Łodzia coat of arms, 1599 – 16 February 1665) was a Polish nobleman, general and military commander. In his career, he rose from a petty nobleman to a magnate holding one of the highest offices in the Com ...

. * Jaroslaw Kobierzycki. * Krzysztof Kosinski, Polish Noble and leader of

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. *

Maciej Łubieński Maciej Łubieński (1572 in Łubna – 1652 in Łowicz), of Pomian coat of arms, was a primate of Poland, archbishop of Gniezno, bishop of Poznań, bishop of Kujawy and interrex in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was educated in Sierad ...

, Primate of Poland and Interrex *

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, Justice Minister in the

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, General and industrialist *

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preacher and missionary *

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, actor

External links

* Pomian Coat of Arms and bearers.

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