Coat of arms of Korwin

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Korwin
Korwin Coat of Arms
Battle cry: Korwin
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Alternative names Corvus, Corvinus, Corvin, Bujno, Ślepowron odmieniony
Earliest mention 1224, 1532 as Korwin CoA
Towns Warsaw, Grand Duchy of Mazovia
Families 112 names altogether: Abramik, Bachowski, Benkowski, Bieńkowski, Bierzyński, Boczkowski, Botowic, Bronicki, Bujnowski, Buynowski, Cetnerski, Chromecki, Dabkowicz, Dalkowicz, Doliński, Droziński, Dudrewicz, Dunaj, Dworakowski, Filiborn, Filleborne, Gacki, Gącki, Gasiorowski, Gęsicki, Ginwił, Ginwiłłowicz, Gosiewski, Grozmani, Grudzina, Gutowski, Haraziński, Hrudzina, Jagodyński, Jagodziński, Jahodyński, Jakimowicz, Jastrzębski, Jawdyński, Kaftanowski, Kamionowski, Kirbut, Kochanowicz, Kochanowski, Komar, Korwin, Kossakowski, Kossenda, Koyrowicz, Kręczow, Krompach, Kruczaj, Kruczkowski, Kruk, Krukowicz, Krukowski, Krupicki, Kunachowicz, Kurkowski, Latowski, Lipczyński, Lipowicz, Lisowski, Lissowski, Łopuszański, Losniewski, Lutostański, Małaciewski, Małaczeński, Małaczewski, Małaczyński, Małęczyński, Metelski, Mietelski, Młodnicki, Moczulski, Morzkowski, Mroczkowski, Odelski, Odolski, Olszewski, Pannenko, Pawłowski, Pczycki, Piotrowski, Pluto, Prendowski, Prędkowski, Proniewski, Sakowicz, Seredyński, Skirwin, Sobierajski, Sołkowski, Suykowski, Szawroński, Szawrowski, Szuwalski, Szwaroński, Szwedowicz, Szwedowski, Szymanowski, Terajowicz, Wasilowski, Wasiłowski, Wolmer, Womer, Wyszkowski, Wzderski, Zaniwicki, Żarnowiecki, Żorawski

Korwin - is a Polish Coat of Arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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[edit] History

The Korwin and Slepowron history-legends are really, almost the same. For some reason, an old Polish chivalry clan, from Sarmatian breeding, chose the Raven as his symbol. Perhaps was his “Rodnidze”, the “Totem-spirit of the Clan”. Those clans, then pagans, were more ancients than the christening of Poland and the rise of the Kingdom of Piast Dynasty. Many centuries later, we know about him from a grant of privilege to Warzęta Korwin z Ślepowrony from Duke Konrad I of Masovia, at Warsaw in 1224. The authors understand that the Korwin actual shield, (with the ring in the raven’s beak), came to Poland from Hungary, almost two centuries later. The so-called Roman-Hungarian legend of Korwin starts in the XVI century under the influence of ancient culture and vivacious contacts between Polish nobility and Hungarian Royal Court. In that kingdom, the Vlach-Hungarian family of Korvin had flourish in 1400, and a baroque legend argues them descending from one of the Roman Gens Valerii. At one time there was in Rome a distinguished patrician named Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, a Roman general who got the agnomen Corvinus in the following manner: The Roman Army moved against the Barbarians, and before the battle began, a warrior of great size and strength came forward and challenged anyone in the Roman cavalry to single combat, whereupon Valerius stepped forward. Just as he was about to engage the barbarian, a raven flew from a trunk, perched upon Valerius's helmet, and began to attack his foe’s eyes with its beak so fiercely that the warrior was blind. With this, the Roman beat him easily, and from that time, Valerius was called Corvinus (from Corvus, "Raven"). Valerius was chosen to the Roman consulate with Caesar Augustus and the baroque authors understand he became a big landowner in the Dacian-Panonian frontiers. If however any of his supposed Hungarians descendants, and a Polish branch of this family carried on the name, nobody really knows… It is true that Janos Hunyadi and his son Matthias Corvinus Hunyadi, King of Hungary and Bohemia, called themselves "Corvinus" and had their coins minted displaying a “raven with a ring”. In addition, the Silesian Annals state that when a raven carried off the ring King Matthias, (who was also ruler of Głogów, one of Silesian duchies), had removed from his finger, Matthias chased the bird down and slew him, retrieving the ring, and in commemoration of this event, he took the raven as a symbol for his signet sign.

[edit] Blazon

In a field of red, on a cut off natural tree stump laid sideways, between two upper and two lower knots stands a left facing black Raven, in its beak, a golden ring with the diamond facing down. In the crest, above a crowned helmet, there are three ostrich feathers.

[edit] Notable bearers

Notable bearers of this Coat of Arms include:

= (Indeed, there is another Gosiewski noble family entitled to use the Ślepowron CoA)

[edit] See also

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