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Nobles in:Germany - Switzerland (Bavaria - Canton of Zurich - Aargau)
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Ancient and noble German family, originally from Bavaria, of clear and ancestral virtue, which first branched out in Switzerland from whence it then spread all over the world. The vastness of this family is also testified by the presence of its many branches in some of the most important heraldry books, such as the "Armorial général" by JB Rietstap, a monumental work that contains the blazons of the coats of arms of more than 130,000 European families, and "Johann Siebmachers allgemeines großes und vollständiges Wappenbuch", a heraldic multivolume book series of coats of arms of the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire. In Bavaria this noble family had its main residence in the city of Ingolstadt, where its members always had the privilege of occupying the highest city offices. A Leopold Häfelin, in 1564, was in fact a member of that noble council. Also Leopold Häfelin (1792 - 1872), administrative ...
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BlazonHäfelin
1. Coat of arms of family: Häfelin
Language of the text: English
Argent, a cauldron brown with a lid vert.
Coat of arms of family Häfelin in Ingolstadt; source: Siebmacher's großes und allgemeines Wappenbuch, Bd. 5 (Bürgerliche Geschlechter Deutschlands und der Schweiz), 3. Abt.: Zweitausend bürgerliche Wappen, Nürnberg 1888, 46.
Or, on a triple mount in base vert a flower gules slipped curved and leaved of one vert.
Coat of arms of family Häfelin in Zurich. Source: "Siebmacher's großes und allgemeines Wappenbuch, Bd. 5 (Bürgerliche Geschlechter Deutschlands und der Schweiz), 12. Abt.: Neunhundertundvier bürgerliche Wappen, Nürnberg 1925, 2".
Or, a man issant from a chaudière (cooking pot) sable on mount in base vert, the man vested azure adorned argent, holding in his dexter hand a scepter or, the sinister leaning on his hip. Crest: the man issant. Lambrequin: or and sable.
Coat of arms of family Häfelin from Baden (Aargau). Source: "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap - Deuxième èdition refondue et augmentée - Tome I A-K".
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