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Language of the text: Deutsch
Nobility: Nobles - Knights
Nobles in:Germany
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Variations Last name: Graffengeser,Grapengießer
Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families
Ancient and noble German family, of clear and ancestral virtue, that has worldwide spread, over the centuries. This family is in fact originally from Wismar, city in Northern Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, but has noble branches also in Switzerland. The first family member we know of is a Johann Ollifex Grapengiesser, flourishing in the year 1302. In fact this family, in all ages, always stood out, thanks to the prominent figures, which gave birth, in the public service, in the liberal and ecclesiastical professions and in the military service. Among these, without undervalue the omitted, we would like to mention: Hermann, "burghauptmann", castle captain, flourishing in 1336; Henrik, chaplain, flourishing in 1484; Ludwig, doctor in law, flourishing in 1543; Erasmus, who received the coat of arms registration in 1655; Friedrich, knight, flourishing in 1682. From the analysis of colours and symbols of the coat of arms we can ...
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BlazonGrapengiesser
Variations Last name: Graffengeser,Grapengießer
1. Coat of arms of family: Grapengiesser
Language of the text: English
Sable, on a cauldron or three roses gules slipped vert with many leaves. Crest: a man issant vested sable and argent with hair and a beard or "à la mode". Lambrequin: sable, or and gules.
Source: "Siebmacher's großes und allgemeines Wappenbuch, Bd. 5 (Bürgerliche Geschlechter Deutschlands und der Schweiz), 8. Abt.: Fünfzehnhundertachtundzwanzig bürgerliche Wappen, Nürnberg 1909, 59".
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Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families
