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.


CROSS - Throughout - Gules

Argent, a cross gules, Trier (9).

Argent, a cross gules, overall an escutcheon Or charged with a lion contourny sable crowned gules debruised by a bendlet sinister argent, Hertzogavrach (225).

Or, a cross gules, von Andlaw (192), von Berckheim (192).

Per pale Or and argent, the dexter half of an eagle issuant from the line of division sable and a cross gules, Memmingen (220).

Quarterly 1st and 4th argent, a cross gules, 2nd and 3rd argent, three escallops sable, Trier (3).


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