The
following is a direct translation from the classical genealogical
and heraldic reference "Herbarz Polski" by Kasper
Niesiecki, S. J., Lipsk edition, 1839-1846.
Neither Paprocki nor Okolski wrote about these arms. There is
half a golden stag with horns and forelegs running or jumping on
the right side on a field of gold; in place of the stag's
hindquarters is a moon, not fun but more like a new moon,
slanted, in the middle of which is a golden star. On the helm are
peacock feathers, on which are a moon and star as on the arms
themselves. I saw a coat of arms as described on a banner, hung
in the Franciscan Fathers' Church in Krosno, of Joachim z Kralic Slaski, who died in 1606. The same can be seen to this day among
the other arms of Regina z Kralic Oswiecimowa, mother of
Stanislaw 0swiecim, founder of the 0swiecim chapel, in Krosno at
the Franciscan Fathers'. Petrasancta does not have
similar arms, only cap. 54 fol. 367. He describes
the Maffeiuses in Rome thus, that there is a stag jumping from an
azure field, but as regards the moon and star, his description is
of gold and silver ones. These arms seem to be more like those of
Tomasz Bacotz de Erdead, Cardinal and Archbishop of Strygon,
portrayed in the chapel of the Strygon palace magnificently
erected by him. Cerut. Orbis fol. 57 Reufr. lib. 14 epistol.
fol 115, that is, a stag which is jumping to the right from
a semi-circle or from a half-wheel, a red field, the stag and
wheel silver or white. I understand from this that these are arms
of the Slaskis, inasmuch as they settled in Podgórze near
Hungary, and so they were brought from there to us. As regards
the moon, it could be that arose by error, that the semicircle
was misunderstood to be a nonfull moon, and a hub of the wheel
was interpreted as a star. These same arms are those of the
Palfiuses de Erdead in Hungary, a horned stag jumping forth from
a hub, as I saw in a certain panegyric in Vienna published by
Paulo Palfi, imperial counselor in 1646. Among us in Poland I
have not seen any other houses use these except the Slaskis. |