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Language of the text: English
Nobility: Nobles - Knights
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Alte und edle deutsche Familie von klarer und überlieferter Tugend, die sich über die Jahrhunderte weltweit verbreitet hat. Es soll aus der Vereinigung zweier Adelsfamilien hervorgegangen sein: Birken von Preußen und Stamm von der Pfalz. Die ersten Zeugnisse des Familiennamens finden wir jedoch bereits im 13. Jahrhundert bei einem Heydelaman, Kellermeister in Reichenau. Später, in den nächsten zwei Jahrhunderten, finden wir andere Familienmitglieder, die als Ritter bezeichnet werden. Daher müssen wir davon ausgehen, dass die Familie Birkenstamm zum ritterlichen Rang gehörte. Tatsächlich stach diese Familie in allen Altersgruppen immer hervor, dank der prominenten Persönlichkeiten, die im öffentlichen Dienst, in den liberalen Berufen und im Militärdienst geboren wurden. Aus unseren Archiven: Gerard, Ritter, der 1393 in Konstanz blühte; Michail, Landbesitzer in Baden-Württemberg, blühte 1451; Jodokus, General der Kavallerie, blühte 1502; Hinrik, Doktor der Rechtswissenschaften in Konstanz, blühte 1543 auf; Lancelin, Landbesitzer in Baden-Württemberg, blühte 1582; Benedikt, Ritter, blühte 1627 in Freiburg; ...
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BlazonBirkenstamm
1. Coat of arms of family: Birkenstamm
Language of the text: English
Azure, a maiden proper holding with her dexter hand a bird of the same and with the sinister hand an anchor or. Crest: a fortuna on a winged orb proper.
Lacking the original descriptions of the family coat of arms, it has been reconstructed based on heraldic conjectures and archival information.
Party per pale, 1° sable, a chevron gules accompanied in base by a star or; 2° argent, a trunk of a tree couped terrassé vert, sommé par two palm trees of the same addorsed.
Reconstruction based on the union of the coats of arms of the Birken and Stamm families
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