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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili - Cavalieri
Nobles in:Germania
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Ancienne et illustre famille allemande, de vertu claire et ancestrale, répartie au cours des siècles dans diverses régions d'Europe et du monde. La tradition veut qu'il soit issu de la noble famille prussienne Rappen, parfois Rappe. Ce dernier, appartenant de tout temps à l'Ordre Teutonique, apparaît dans les documents officiels dès 1543, lorsqu'un Heinrich R. est mentionné, puis le chancelier prussien Christoph (1566-1619), dont le neveu Otto (+ 1634) était en 1620 également inscrit à la chevalerie de Courlande. Un autre Christoph von R. († 1716) reçut plus tard la confirmation de la noblesse prussienne en 1698, à Königsberg. Malheureusement, la famille Rappen s'éteignit, en Prusse en 1744 et en Courlande en 1752. Heureusement, elle s'était beaucoup répandue au cours des siècles précédents, donnant ainsi naissance à d'autres lignées indépendantes comme, selon la tradition, les Rappenecker. Les Rappeneckers ont eu leur berceau dans le Bade-Wurtemberg et en fait déjà à ...
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When you buy a heraldic document a new accurate analysis of the heraldic research will be performed by an expert heraldist and the document will be written in Italian or English.
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BlazonRappenecker
1. Coat of arms of family: Rappenecker
Language of the text: Italiano
Di rosso, ad un mezzo uomo vestito d'oro, impugnante in ogni mano un ramo di palma del medesimo. Cimiero: il mezzo uomo dello scudo.
L'arma di questa famiglia risulta purtroppo ignota negli Armoriali. Una sua ricostruzione è stata però resa possibile dalla presenza di frammentarie informazioni d'archivio e dal ricorso alle consuete congetture araldiche.
D'argento, a tre scaglioni di nero. Cimiero: due semivoli affrontati, il primo d'argento ed il secondo di nero su uno scaglione del medesimo. Svolazzi di nero e d'argento.
Blasone della famiglia Rappe o Rappen. Fonti bibliografiche: "Siebmacher's großes und allgemeines Wappenbuch, Bd. 6 (Abgestorbene, erloschene Geschlechter), 4. Abt.: Abgestorbener Preußischer Adel, Provinz Preußen, Nürnberg 1874, 65 f"; "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap - Deuxième èdition refondue et augmentée - Tome II L-Z".
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