Ślepowron coat of arms

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Ślepowron
Battle cry: Bojno, Bujno
Details
Alternative names	Bojno, Bujno, Pesze, Korwin, Corvin, Ślepy Wron
Earliest mention	1224, 1238 as Ślepowron
Towns	Ruda-Huta Lublin Voivodeship
Families	530 names altogether: Adziewicz, Andziewicz, Audziewicz, Awdziewicz, Bagieński, Bagiński, Bagnicki, Bagnicki, Bańkowski, Baraniecki, Barański, Barszczewski, Bejnarowicz, Berliński, Bibełowicz, Bigoszewski, Bogiński, Bogusławski, Bohniński, Bolesza, Bonasewicz, Bonasiewicz, Bonaszewicz, Borzymowski, Boski, Bossowski, Bratkowski, Broleński, Bronicki, Brotkowski, Browiński, Bruszewski, Brużewicz, Brzeski, Brzostowski, Buceń, Buczeń, Buczyński, Bujnicki, Bujniewicz, Bujno, Bujwen, Bukon, Bystry, Chamera, Chaliński, Charbowski, Chełmoński, Chodzewski, Chryzoln, Chrzczonowicz, Chrzczonowski, Chudzewski, Ciarnowski, Ciecierski, Ciprski, Czaczkowski, Czajkowski, Czapkowski, Czarnomski, Czartoszewski, Czekotowski, Czerwiakowski, Dachnowski, Daczewski, Darowski, Darowski Werycha, Demby, Dęby, Dobrowolski, Dowdorowicz, Dowkont, Drągowski, Drąsutowicz, Drążewski, Drodzieński, Drongutowicz, Drozdziński, Drożeński, Drużyński, Drygalski, Dubiski, Duchna, Duchnowski, Dudorowicz, Dworakowski, Dybowski, Dziczkaniec, Dziekuński, Dzięcielski, Dziwulski, Faśkiewicz, Fiałkowski, Fijałkowski, Filichowski, Filipowski, Filochowski, Florianowicz, Foczyński, Frankowski, Frąckiewicz, Gajewski, Garbaszewski, Gawkowski, Gąsiewski, Gąsiorowski, Gąsowicz, Gęsiewski, Giegnatki, Giegniątko, Gierdziejewski, Gierlach, Glinka, Glińka, Gliński, Głuszczyński, Głyszyński, Goczanowski, Golimunt, Gorka, Gorodelski, Gosiewski, Górnicz, Górski, Grochowarski, Grodecki, Gronkowski, Grotowski, Gryziewicz, Gumkowski, Gumowski, Gut, Gutkowski, Gutowski, Gutt, Hałuszczyński, Harbaszewski, Harbowski, Hładunowicz, Horbaszowski, Horodziński, Idziński, Idźkowski, Jagniątko, Jagoszewski, Jaguszewski, Jarczowski, Jarmusz, Jarmuszewicz, Jaruszelski, Jaruzelski, Jarużelski, Jasiewski, Jastrzębski, Jaszewiski, Jaszewski, Jeruzalski, Josiewski, Jórski, Junkiewicz, Jurgielewicz, Jurski, Jurzyc, Jurzyk, Juszkiewicz, Juszkowicz, Juściński, Kabok, Kabot, Kalenczyński, Kaluchniewicz, Kamieński, Karnecki, Karulewicz, Karwowski, Kępkowski, Kierbedź, Kijuć, Klimaszewski, Klimkowski, Klis, Klusza, Kłopotowski, Kochanowski, Kochnowski, Kochowicz, Kokoszczyński, Kolnarski, Komarczewski, Komarczowski, Komarzewski, Komecki, Komocki, Kończyński, Kończyski, Kopcewicz, Kopciewicz, Kopczyński, Kordecki, Korwin, Kosakiewicz, Kossak, Kossakiewicz, Kossakowski, Kostecki, Kościanka, Kownacki, Kozłowski, Krasiński, Krasowski, Krassowski, Krażyński, Krokowski, Kroszczyński, Krukowski, Krupiański, Krzemieniewski, Krzewski, Krzymowski, Księżopolski, Kuczkowski, Kuczyński, Kudelski, Kukowski, Kukszyn, Kulesza, Kuleszka, Kuleszyński, Kulka, Kurp, Kurpiewski, Kwir, Kwiro, Lamiecki, Lenarski, Lenart, Leniewicz, Leontowicz, Leźnicki, Ligiejko, Likowski, Liniewicz, Lipczyński, Lipiak, Liping, Lipink, Lissowski, Lubowicki, Lutosławski, Lutostański, Ładnowski, Łaniecki, Łaściszewski, Ławrynowicz, Łopuski, Łowicki, Łowiecki, Łowkiański, Łupianka, Łupieński, Łupiński, Łykoski, Łykowski, Maleciński, Malewski, Malinowski, Małujewicz, Marecki, Marmakiewicz, Matański, Matecki, Maternicki, Medenicki, Medunicki, Meduniewski, Medyniecki, Miełkowski, Mierkowski, Mieroszewski, Mieszerawski, Mikucki, Mikuta, Milejko, Milejkowicz, Milewski, Mileyko, Milkowski, Miłkowski, Miłobęcki, Miłobędzki, Miłodrowski, Mirkowski, Miroszewski, Miskiewicz, Miśkiewicz, Młodziejowski, Mnichowicz, Moczydłowski, Morzkowski, Mosicki, Mosiecki, Mościcki, Mościeczny, Mrokowski, Mrowczewski, Mrzeski, Mrzewski, Nasierowski, Nasiorowski, Nasurowski, Nasutowski, Niemierko-Popławski, Niesiorowski, Niestoimski, Niestojemski, Nosek, Nowakowski, Nowodzielski, Nowosielski, Nowosilski, Oglęcki, Oględzki, Olizarowicz, Olszewski, Ostrowski, Pabrez, Padlewski, Padlewski-Skorupka, Pański, Papa, Papieński, Papiński, Pawłowski, Paździerski, Perka, Perkowski, Petrozolin, Pęsa, Pęski, Pęza, Pienicki, Pietnicki, Pięta, Piętka, Pigienicki, Piotrowski, Piski, Piskowski, Piszkowski, Pniewski, Podczaski, Podernia, Pokłoński, Pomianowski, Popławski, Potyralski, Powiatowski, Prątnicki, Przełomiński, Przełomski, Przestrzelski, Przyborowski, Przyłucki, Przyłuski, Przysiorowski, Puchalski, Pudernia, Puklicz, Pułacki, Pułaski, Puławski, Puzielewicz, Pyszczowski, Raabe, Rabe, Raczyński, Rajzner, Ramański, Ramocki, Ratyński, Rayczyński, Rączka, Relidzyński, Rembowski, Rębowski, Rodliński, Rogalski, Roman, Romański, Romaszkowicz, Romejko, Romeyko, Romocki, Rosalski, Rosiński, Rossalski, Rostocki, Roszeyko, Rozanowicz, Rożanowicz, Rudziewski, Rumocki, Rybałtowski, Rybczyński, Rybicki, Rychliński, Ryczywolski, Rząca, Rzączyński, Rzońca, Sarnacki, Sarnecki, Sarnicki, Sawicki, Sczucki, Sergijewski, Siedmiogrodzki, Siehiejewicz, Sierhejewicz, Sierhiejewicz, Ścibor, Sipniewicz, Sipniewski, Siromski, Skibniewski, Skorupka, Skrodzki, Skwierczyński, Skwirczyński, Sławomier, Słogocki, Sobolewski, Sokołowski, Sokowicz, Spadowski, Spandowski, Starzyński, Stąpaczewski, Suchodolec, Suchodolski, Suchopiątek, Symborski, Syromski, Szabuniewicz, Szczucki, Szemborski, Szempleński, Szempliński, Szeotyc, Szepietowski, Szeplewski, Szerenos, Szeronos, Szlubowski, Szmurło, Szwander, Szymanowski, Szymanowski Korwin, Szymański, Szymborski, Śladowski, Ślepowroński, Ślubowski, Śniciński, Śnieciński, Świderski, Święcki, Taraskowski, Taraszkowski, Tatarowski, Terajewicz, Terajowicz, Topczewski, Trembicki, Trębicki, Trojnicki, Truskolaski, Truskolawski, Truskoleśny, Truszkowski, Trzciński, Trzyciński, Tyborowski, Tyszarski, Ugoski, Ujazdowski, Ulanowski, Wasianowicz, Wąsowicz-Dunin, Wąż, Wdziekuński, Wereszczatyński, Wędrychowski, Wiercieński, Wierciński, Wierzbicki, Wierzbicki Korwin, Wilkęski, Wilkowski, Wojno, Wojsiatycz, Wojsznarowicz, Wolski, Woysiatycz, Wroblewski, Wróblewski, Wróżbita, Wyczałkowski, Wyczółkowski, Wyrzykowski, Wyskowski, Wyszkowski, Wyżykowski, Xiężopolski, Zabawski, Zaleski, Zatorski, Zawadzki, Zawadzki, Zawałkiewicz, Zawidzki, Zawidzski, Zbyszyński, Zelachowski, Zera, Zieleznicki, Zieleźnicki, Zimnoch, Złotogórski, Zuk, Zyra, Żelachowski, Żera, Żmijewski, Żmijowski, Żuk, Żyłłok, Żyra

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

1 History
2 Blazon
3 Notable bearers
4 See also

[edit] History

The baroque authors romantically agree that this clan shield was acquired as follows: when one handsome knight of the families of Korwin had the good fortune to marry a beautiful daughter of the Pobog clan, he redesigned the arms by adding to the horseshoe his ancestral raven with a ring.

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 the Duchy of Głogów, and Suzerain of all the 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

A black raven with its wings somewhat extended for flight, is facing to the right of the shield. It stands atop a cross. The cross is on the shoulders of a horseshoe which stands erect with its heels at the bottom. In the raven’s beak, it holds a gold ring. The shield is blue and the horseshoe silver. On a crowned helmet stands a similar raven as in the shield.