The Very Earliest Known Coat Of Arms Wannemacher
This Arms found in the book written by John Skottowe Wanamaker. Title of
the book
Wanamaker, Salley, McKay and Bellinger Familie's Genealogies
and Memoirs
South Carolina, written mid 1900's.
It is not known yet if this Arms belong to the Wannemacher's
who came from Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany. But it is still something that
we must all concider as Wannemacher descendants. It is the very earliest
known, so far. But as yet there is no picture of it and there is no proof
as it belonging to all of us. There is a Latin translation of these arms,
in JS Wanamaker book above but it will not be included here.
I will attempt to recreate the arms in color. We must also remember
that no same Coat of Arms belong to the same people. All are unique and
all individual. None can be claimed as our own, because we may never
know which actually belong to a single family. The only one allowed
to carry the same Arms as a Father was his children, even they had to
change their "copy" in some way. If the Father passed on, then only the
children were allowed to assume the original.
English Translation of the Wannamaker Coat of Arms
The original Latin wording of the coat of arms granted to Wilhelm Wannemacher
by the Emporer of Austria on October 19, 1555. and again to Peter
Wannemacher in 1583. Recorded in the Archives of Nobility in Vienna, Austria. In Latin, translated into English as follows:
We grant a sheild of azure (dark blue) on which appears a sheaf of
spikes (ears of grain) of saffron (natural, also gold or yellow) color.
Above the sheild, in truth, a helmet of the ordinary type (meaning
facing sideways) emcompassed by ribbons (lappets) of azure (dark blue)
and yellow (gold) and the girt around with a twisted band of the same
colors (azure and gold).
The Arms had been then added to the following:
We have deemed it proper not only that the devices of the coat of
arms should be praised and approved and confirmed, but also,
because your deserts make such a requirement, that they should be
augmented, ornamented and improved. and in their present content
we praise, approve, confirm, augment, adorn, improve and change
them and we concede, grant and bestow permission that they be
handed on in the following manner:
The new Arms:
We grant a quadripcate sheild whose lower right and upper left consist
of the above mentioned, ancient arms and insignia. But the upper left
and the lower right shall be divided transversely in pyramid form
into eight parts, the first of which at the bottom is of black, the second
of gold, the third again of a black color and thus in alternate successions
the remaining parts shall be varigated. But the upper right and lower left comprise
in an azure field of sheaf(ears of grain) of yellow. And above the sheild we grant the
helmet of the ordinary type mentioned above, changing it to an open helmet or one
of the variety that is turned on a lathe, girt by ribbons of black, golden yellow
and azure and a twisted diam band of the ancient colors. From the apex of which a
black eagle with one head turned to the right with wings spread out from its feet
to it's breast shall be conspicious. All these things are decreed as they have been
portrayed by accurate words in the midst of the present company.
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