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Nobles in:Germany - Switzerland (Bavaria - Canton of Zurich - Aargau)
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Ancienne et noble famille allemande, originaire de Bavière, de vertu claire et ancestrale, qui s'est d'abord ramifiée en Suisse d'où elle s'est ensuite répandue dans le monde entier. L'immensité de cette famille est également attestée par la présence de ses nombreuses branches dans certains des livres héraldiques les plus importants, comme l'"Armorial général" de JB Rietstap, une œuvre monumentale qui contient les blasons des armoiries de plus de 130 000 familles européennes et "Johann Siebmachers allgemeines großes und vollständiges Wappenbuch", une série de livres héraldiques en plusieurs volumes d'armoiries de la noblesse du Saint Empire romain germanique. En Bavière, cette famille noble avait sa résidence principale dans la ville d'Ingolstadt, où ses membres avaient toujours le privilège d'occuper les plus hautes fonctions de la ville. Un Léopold Häfelin, en 1564, était en effet membre de ce noble conseil. Aussi Leopold Häfelin (1792 - 1872), officier administratif et Chevalier de l'Ordre ...
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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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