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Language of the text: English
Nobility: Nobles
Nobles in:Germany
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Variations Last name: Schikendantz
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. In ancient heraldic documents and texts, it is mentioned both as Schickentanz and Schikendantz. It should be noted that the original form of a surname did not always remain intact over the centuries with its primitive spelling. Often due to incorrect transcriptions, dialectal transformations according to the regions where the lineage gradually moved, the incomprehensible handwriting of the scribes, etc., there were changes in phonetics and handwriting. We can trace various lines of this illustrious lineage. The most noble had its home in Lübeck, the largest city in the Land Schleswig-Holstein. More commonly known in the surname form Schikendantz, this family line is included in the fundamental heraldic work "Siebmachers Wappenbuch" by Johann Ambrosius Siebmacher; it is a heraldic multivolume book regarding the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire. Without a doubt, there ...
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BlazonSchickentanz
Variations Last name: Schikendantz
1. Crest of family: Schikendantz, Schikentantz
Language of the text: English
Party per pale argent and azure; a crane sable holding a stone or between three mushrooms (2,1) argent. Crest: a mushroom argent between two wings conjoined azure.
Source: "Siebmacher's großes und allgemeines Wappenbuch" Bd. 5 (Civil families of Germany and Switzerland), 5th section: Two thousand civil coats of arms, Nuremberg 1895, 45.
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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
