Rogala is a Polish coat of arms, likely based upon armorial bearings imported from Northeastern Germany to Poland around 1109, by members of the von Bibersztein family (whose arms feature a 5-tined stag's horn). Polish descendants of this family later added a second horn, that of the Urus or European Bison, to create the Rogala arms. It was used by numerous

szlachta The ''szlachta'' (; ; ) were the nobility, noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Depending on the definition, they were either a warrior "caste" or a social ...

families in the time of the

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History

Blazon

Heraldist

Kasper Niesiecki Kasper Niesiecki (31 December 1682 – 9 July 1744), also known as Kacper Niesiecki, was a Polish heraldist, Jesuit, lexicographer, writer, theologian and preacher. Biography Niesiecki was born in Greater Poland to a burgher family. In 1699 h ...

describes it as white with a red deer horn, and red with a white bull horn. The horns' place is swapped on the helmet.

Notable bearers

Notable bearers of these arms include: * House of Krasicki *

Ignacy Krasicki Ignacy Błażej Franciszek Krasicki (3 February 173514 March 1801), from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia (in German, ''Ermland'') and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno (thus, Primate of Poland), was Poland's leading Polish Enlightenment, Enlightenment ...

Józef Wybicki Józef Rufin Wybicki (; 29 September 1747 – 10 March 1822) was a Polish nobleman, jurist, poet, political and military activist of Kashubian descent. He is best remembered as the author of "" (), which was adopted as the Polish national anthe ...

— Author of Polish national anthem,

Mazurek Dąbrowskiego "Poland Is Not Yet Lost", also known in Polish as "Mazurek Dąbrowskiego" (; ) and formerly the "Song of the Polish Legions in Italy", is the national anthem of Poland. The original lyrics were written by Józef Wybicki in Reggio Emilia, in No ...

(Polski) *

Kost Levytsky Kost Antonovych Levytsky (; 18 November 1859 – 12 November 1941) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian politician. He was a leader of the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance in the Second Polish Republic and the head of the Council of Seniors of a ...

(1859-1941) — Ukrainian politician, Chairman of State Secretariat of West Ukraine *

Mykhailo Levytsky Michael Levytsky (or ''Levytskyi'' or ''Levitsky'' (, )); 17 February, 1774 – 14 January, 1858) was the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1816 until his death in 1858 and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. ...

(1774-1858) — Metropolitan Archbishop of the

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Volodymyr Levytsky Volodymyr Levytsky (31 December 1872 – 13 August 1956) was a Ukrainian mathematician who taught mathematics and studied functions of a complex variable. Biography and education Volodymyr Levytsky finished his doctorate at the University of L ...

(1872-1956) — Ukrainian mathematician * Feliks Turski (1729–1800), bishop *

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* Karol Aleksander Krasicki * Wiseł Czambor *

Ignacy Zaborowski Ignacy Zaborowski (2 November 1754–10 January 1803) was a Polish mathematician and geodesist; Piarist. He was a professor and rector of the Collegium Nobilium. Biography Born on 2 November 1754 in Ruthenian Voivodeship, Zaborowski attended Pi ...

Albrycht Zaborowski Albrecht Zaborowski (also rendered Saborowski; anglicized as Albert Zabriskie; 1638–1711) of Grudziądz, was a Polish emigrant, one of the pioneers of European colonization in what is now New Jersey, who settled there on August 31, 1662. Early ...

* Janusz Kałuski * Kulczyński *

Józef Zawadzki (chemist) Józef Zawadzki (July 14, 1886 in Warsaw – February 22, 1951 in Zalesie, near Warsaw) was a Polish physical chemist and technologist. Father of Tadeusz (''Zośka'') and Anna Zawadzka. Zawadzki was a co-founder, President and Vice-President of ...

Aleksander Zawadzki (naturalist) Aleksander Zawadzki born Józef Antoni Zawadzki (6 May 1798 in Bielitz, Austrian Silesia – 6 May 1868 in Brno) was a Polish naturalist, author of flora and fauna lists of the Galicia region and the neighbourhood of Lviv (). He was also the ...

* Augustyn Ludwik Michał Brzeżański *

Tadeusz Zawadzki Tadeusz Leon Józef Zawadzki (; January 24, 1921 – August 20, 1943) was a Polish Scout leader, scout instructor, scoutmaster, Home Army second lieutenant, commander of Gray Ranks, assault groups in Warsaw, one of the protagonists of Aleksander ...

* Jan Boży Krasicki * Ksawery (Xavier) Franciszek Krasicki * Wacław Denhoff-Czarnocki
Norbert Lewald-Jezierski
* Stanisław Sieciński * Piotr Pilik * Władysław Rozwadowski * * Jan Gotfryd Biberstein-Krasicki * * Jerzy Krasicki * Casmir Koczorowski * Bruno-Denis-Aeropagite-Marcel Kicinski * Samuel-Albert Lewicki * Kazimierz-Witold-Stanislaw Zawadzki * Stefan Rogala-Bojakowski

Related coat of arms

* Hodyc coat of arms * Iwanowski coat of arms *

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References

External links

* Rogala Coat of Arms and bearers *

Sources

Dynastic Genealogy

Ornatowski.com

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