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Blazons of Germany - G

This collection presents 896 German-linked shield entries beginning with G from Johannes Baptista Rietstap’s Armorial Général. The blazons are translated into English with heraldic abbreviations written out in full.

Localities and family branches identify the particular arms recorded. Distinct versions included in this selection are kept separate, and every surname heading ends with Coat of Arms. This is a selected collection, not a complete transcription of every G entry in Rietstap.

Scope and reading: The series includes entries associated with Germany and historical German states and regions. Historical labels such as Prussia and Silesia are retained; they do not describe modern borders or establish a single nationality. The descriptions are shield blazons; crests, helmets, mantling and supporters are omitted. Unspecified tinctures are not invented. Arms belong to particular armigerous families and branches, rather than everyone sharing a surname.

Sources: Rietstap’s Armorial Général, second edition, volume I and volume II. Each entry links to its source or source reference. The Enquerre Rietstap index was used as a finding aid and transcription reference.

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Browse surnames: Ga · Ge · Gf · Gh · Gi · Gl · Gm · Gn · Go · Gr · Gs · Gu · Gw · Gy

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Editorial progress: The collection has been expanded with manually translated shield descriptions. Incomplete entries have been checked against the printed pages where possible, distinct versions have been separated, and duplicate or misfiled records have been resolved. Wider coverage, cross-references and full primary-page verification remain in progress.

Ga surnames

Gabelenz (Barons von der) Coat of Arms

Saxony, Silesia.
Gules, two curved lines from the upper corners to the centre of the base dividing off lower lateral compartments Argent; in the Gules field a trident-head without its shaft Argent.

Rietstap: original page scan

Gabelman Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, a horse galloping Argent marked on its body with two forks Gules in saltire.

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Gabeln Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, two tridents Argent in saltire between three stars Or, one at each side and one in base; overall a fess Argent.

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Gabler Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per bend: first, Or, a rose Gules; second, Argent, a rose Gules. Overall a bend Azure charged with a fork Or, its prongs upwards.

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Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Gules, a sinister arm Or issuing from a cloud Azure at the side and grasping a trident Argent.

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Gabmayr Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per pale: first, Or, a chevron Sable; second, Sable, a chevron Or.

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Gabriel Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: first, Gules, a demi-knight issuing from the partition, fully armed Argent with a helmet plumed Argent, holding a mace with a lozenge-shaped head, its tincture unspecified; second, chequy Or and Azure.

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Gadenstedt Coat of Arms

Brunswick.
Or, a pale sable.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Gadii (Counts) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, an eagle Sable crowned Or; second and third, Azure, a man's head proper in profile.

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Gadner Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: first, Gules, a demi-hare Argent issuing from the partition; second, Argent, three flames Gules issuing from the base.

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Gadow Coat of Arms

Pomerania, Denmark, Mecklenburg.
Azure, three salmon swimming Argent in pale.

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Gaedecke Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Per bend sinister: first, Sable, a demi-lion Or armed and langued Gules, crowned Or and issuing from the partition; second, Argent, four bars Gules.

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Gaertner Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Quarterly: first and fourth, azure, an anchor or in bend sinister; second and third, or, on a bend gules three fleurs-de-lis argent in bend.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Gäfert de Gäfertsheim Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per fess: first, Gules, two forearms proper vested Argent cuffed Azure, issuing from the upper corners with their hands joined at the centre; second, Or, a fess chequy Sable and Argent of three rows.

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Gaffron d'Oberstradam Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Gules, two buffalo horns Sable, their openings facing the sides of the shield.

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Gagern (Barons) Coat of Arms

Bavaria, Baden.
Per bend sinister Argent and Azure, a cramp counterchanged.

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Pomerania, Mecklenburg.
Per bend Argent and Sable, a cramp counterchanged.

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Gagern-Granssen Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per pale: first, per bend sinister Argent and Sable, a cramp counterchanged; second, Argent, a unicorn rampant Gules.

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Gagers de Rohr Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per bend: first, Azure, three comets Or with five-pointed heads, their tails issuing from a cloud Argent in the sinister chief corner; second, Sable, a lion Or crowned Or.

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Gagg de Löwenberg Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a demi-eagle Sable beaked and membered Or issuing from the pale partition; second and third, Sable, a lion Or crowned Or, supported by a terrace Vert and holding an orange stalked and leaved, its tinctures unspecified, the lion in the second quarter reversed. On an inescutcheon Azure, a column Or surmounted by a star Or.

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Gahmen Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, three fesses gules.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Gaidowski Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per bend: first, Sable, a sun Or; second, Or, a lion Sable crowned Sable holding a sceptre Or between its paws. Overall a bend wavy Argent bordered Gules and charged with three fleurs-de-lis Gules, each bend sinisterwise.

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Gailer Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a griffin Gules supporting a fired grenade proper in its dexter paw; second and third, Gules, a pale Or.

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Gailingen d'Illesheim Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Per fess argent and sable.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Gailingen de Widersheim Coat of Arms

Hesse; cross-reference to the preceding Illesheim entry.
Per fess Argent and Sable.

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Gaillac Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first, Or, an eagle reversed Sable beaked, membered and crowned Or; second and third, Gules, two fans of peacock feathers proper with handles Or crossed in saltire and passing through a crown Or; fourth, Argent, a lion Sable.

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Gaillard Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, three bezants arranged one and two; two lines from the centre of the chief to the lower corners divide off lateral compartments barry Argent and Azure.

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Gaisberg Coat of Arms

Silesia, Württemberg, Bavaria.
Or, a ram's horn Sable erased Gules, its tip curved towards dexter.

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Gaishofer de Biberkär Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per bend Argent and Gules, an ibex rampant counterchanged horned Or and supported by a mount Vert.

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Gaismar (Barons) Coat of Arms

Hesse, Prussia.
Argent, a stag springing sable.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Gaist de Wildeck Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Azure, a falcon rising Argent with a halo Or, standing on a mount Or.

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Gal (von) Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Azure, three gallnuts Or.

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Gall Coat of Arms

Oldenburg, Hesse, Württemberg, Bavaria.
Per fess: first, Or, a cock Sable with its dexter foot raised, combed and wattled Gules; second, bendy Or and Sable.

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Prussia.
Argent, three gallnuts Vert.

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Gallassi Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: first, Gules, a lion Or holding a small chest Or between its paws; second, Azure, two bends sinister Or with three stars Or between them.

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Gallebeham Coat of Arms

Germany.
Sable, a lion Or holding a star Or between its paws, supported by a terrace proper; two curved lines from the centre of the chief to the lower corners divide off lateral compartments each per fess Gules and Argent and charged with a fleur-de-lis counterchanged.

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Gallo Coat of Arms

Germany.
Or, a cock standing on a mount and holding three ears of grain without leaves in its raised dexter foot, all Sable.

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Gallois Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per pale: first, Argent, four roses of six petals arranged one, two and one, their tincture unspecified; second, Sable, a bend Or between two crescents Argent bendwise, the upper crescent with its horns downwards and the lower with its horns upwards.

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Gallus Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Gules, a cock Argent with its dexter foot raised, supported by a ragged staff proper shaped as a crescent.

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Gallwitz Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Per fess: first, Azure, two fleurs-de-lis Argent side by side; second, Argent, a hunting-horn Or.

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Gambs Coat of Arms

Strasbourg, Bavaria, Lower Rhine, Alsace.
Or, a chamois rampant Sable supported by a mount Vert.

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Gamm Coat of Arms

Mecklenburg, Denmark.
Azure, three stars or in bend.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Gämmerler Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, per bend Argent and Sable; second and third, Or, a goat rampant Gules. Overall a bend Azure charged with five stars Or.

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Gammersfelder Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Rothenburg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per fess Argent and Gules, overall an acorn with its stalk downwards and two leaves, all Or.

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Gamon von der March Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per pale: first, Argent, three crescents Or with human faces in pale, separated by two thin horizontal lines Gules; second, Argent, three stars Sable in pale, separated by two thin lines Gules in bend sinister. Overall a pallet Gules.

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Gamperger (Knights) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per pale: first, Azure, a chamois statant reversed Argent standing on the summit of a steep rock Argent issuing from the base; second, bendy sinister of ten Gules and Argent.

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Ganahl zu Zangenberg Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, two bends Argent, one shortened towards chief and the other towards base, joined by their corners at the centre.

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Gandenberger de Moisy Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Per fess: above, Or, a white dove beaked and membered Gules; below, Gules, three fleurs-de-lis Or, two and one.

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Gangler Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Gules, three wolf-hooks inverted Argent in pale.

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Gans Coat of Arms

Brunswick, Prussia.
Vert, a goose argent beaked and membered gules.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Franconia.
Azure, a goose Argent accompanied by a star Or in the sinister chief corner.

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Gans Edler Herr zu Puttlitz Coat of Arms

Brandenburg.
Gules, a goose argent, crowned or and wearing a second crown or around its neck, standing on a mount vert with wings raised.

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Gansauge Coat of Arms

Brandenburg.
Per pale: first, Azure, a fess Or between three stars Or; second, Sable, a lozenge-shaped buckle Argent, its tongue towards sinister. Overall a chief Purpure charged with a royal crown Or.

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Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a fess Or between three stars Argent; second and third, Or, a tree Vert in two tiers accompanied on its sinister side by two small tree trunks proper, all supported by a terrace Vert. A bordure Or.

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Ganser Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a goose Argent standing on a mount Gules; second and third, Argent, a demi-eagle Sable issuing from the base.

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Regensburg, Bavaria.
Vert, a goose argent.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Ganshorn Coat of Arms

Palatinate.
Azure, a goose Argent with a hunting-horn Sable suspended from its neck.

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Gantzhorn Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Per fess: first, Or, an ibex horn Gules fesswise, its tip towards dexter; second, Gules, three stars Or.

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Gantzken de Pribbernow Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Gules, a demi-unicorn Argent issuing from the sinister side.

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Gantzken de Schimmerwitz Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Gules, a goose argent.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Ganzenmüller Coat of Arms

Nördlingen, Bavaria, Swabia.
Per pale: first, Sable, a griffin Or; second, Sable, two bends Or lowered beneath a wheel of four spokes Argent.

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Gappen de Tamerburg Coat of Arms

Germany.
Argent, a lion Gules crowned Or; two curved lines from the centre of the chief to the lower corners divide off lateral compartments Gules, each charged with a rose Argent.

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Garaffo Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, a castle Or surmounted by three turrets Or, standing on a rock of three peaks proper rising from a sea Argent.

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Garbe Coat of Arms

Augsburg, Bavaria, Swabia.
Azure, a chevron Sable between two stars Or in chief and a garb Or in base.

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Gardaner Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Per fess azure and argent, overall a camel passant gules.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Gardelle (de la) Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Azure, a fess Or between two eight-pointed stars Argent, one in chief and one in base.

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Garhamer de Garham Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per pale Sable and Argent, two balls counterchanged.

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Garleffstorp Coat of Arms

Hamburg.
Sable, a tree Vert between two lions Or facing one another and rampant against the trunk, all supported by a terrace Vert.

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Garlop Coat of Arms

Lübeck, Denmark.
Gules, a greyhound's head and neck Argent collared and buckled Or.

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Garmissen Coat of Arms

Hanover.
Argent, five lozenges conjoined gules in bend.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Garn Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Gules, a dexter arm in armour Sable issuing from the side, its hand proper holding a sword Argent hilted Or bendwise; a bordure Or.

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Garner Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Or, a gonfanon Gules with three suspension rings at the top.

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Garnier Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, three stars Or; second and third, Or, a double-headed eagle Sable beaked and membered Or, each head crowned Or.

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Garnier (Barons) Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per fess: first, Azure, a ball Or winged Argent; second, Argent, two bends Gules. A bordure Or.

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Garnier-Turawa Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Per fess: first, Azure, a ball Or winged Argent; second, Argent, two bends Gules.

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Garoche Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: first, Azure, a lion passant Or; second, Azure, two bends wavy Argent.

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Garr auf Katzberg Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, a lion rampant or, below it a terrace vert.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Garrelts Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per pale Azure and Argent, two chevrons overall, the upper Sable and the lower Argent, with three stars Argent arranged one and two between them.

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Garstorp Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, a fess sable.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Gartner Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per pale sable and gules, overall an escallop argent.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Argent, a lime tree Gules rising from behind a hedge Vert, all supported by a base Or.

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Gärtner Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Quarterly: first and fourth, azure, an anchor proper in bend sinister; second and third, or, on a bend gules three fleurs-de-lis argent.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Saxony, Austria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a demi-eagle Argent issuing from the pale partition; second and third, Or, three bars Sable. On an inescutcheon Or, a leafless tree Sable standing on a mount Vert.

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Gärtner-Griebenow Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a demi-eagle Argent issuing from the pale partition; second and third, Or, three bars Sable. On an inescutcheon Argent, a leafless tree Sable standing on a mount Vert.

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Gärtringen Coat of Arms

Swabia, Switzerland.
Azure, two sickles addorsed argent hafted or.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Gartz Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Argent, a griffin or.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Gartzen Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Argent, three birds Azure beaked and membered Gules, crowned Or, each standing on an isolated terrace Vert and holding an annulet Or in its dexter foot.

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Garzerang Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or, an eagle sable; second and third, azure, a heron proper on a terrace vert.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Garzin Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, a lion rampant barry argent and gules, below it a terrace vert.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Gaschin de Rosenberg Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Quarterly: first, Azure, a lion reversed Or crowned Or; second, Argent, an eagle Azure semy of flames Or and crowned Or; third, per bend indented Or and Azure, the teeth curved towards the base; fourth, Azure, two wheels of six spokes Or in bend sinister. On an inescutcheon Gules surmounted by an electoral crown, a fess Argent charged with a rose Gules.

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Gäsler Coat of Arms

Germany.
Tierced in bend Argent, Sable and Gules, the Sable charged with a lion Or.

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Gasman Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: first, Or, a demi-knight fully armed issuing from the partition, his helmet plumed Argent and Gules, holding a raised flaming sword in both hands; second, Argent, a lion Gules. The armour and sword tinctures are not specified.

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Gasmer Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per pale: first, Or with lateral compartments Gules bounded by lines from the centre of that division's top edge to its lower corners, each Gules compartment charged with a star Or; second, Azure, a crowned lion supporting a fleur-de-lis in its dexter paw, all Or.

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Gasser Coat of Arms

Bavaria; ennoblement, 1825, and Barons, 1866.
Per fess Or and Azure, a lion counterchanged holding an ear of corn Argent stalked and leaved Vert.

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Carinthie, Regensburg, Bavaria.
Per pale azure and or, overall a lion rampant gules.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a demi-eagle Sable issuing from the vertical division; second and third, Argent, a griffin Gules holding a small bouquet of roses Gules, the griffin in the third quarter reversed.

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Gassner Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per pale: first, sable, a lion rampant or crowned of the same; second, gules, a chevron argent, in chief two fleurs-de-lis of the same.

Rietstap: French transcription and source reference

Gastel Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Sable, a cross of Lorraine Or standing on a mount of three peaks Vert, with the letters A M C E Or in the four angles, standing for amor meus crucifixus est; second and third, Azure, a lion Argent crowned Or holding a star Or between its paws.

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Gastell Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Azure, a bend wavy Argent charged with a fish proper bendwise, between two stars Or.

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Gästl Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per pale: first, Gules, a crane Argent with wings raised standing on a terrace Vert; second, Or, three bends Sable.

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Gastlein de Morenwöll Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Argent, three roses gules slipped and leaved vert issuing from a stump proper in fess.

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Gattenhofen Coat of Arms

Franconia, Prussia.
Per fess Argent and Sable, the Sable charged with four conjoined triangular points Argent issuing from the base.

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Gättringer Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: first, Or, a demi-man issuing from the partition, vested proper and wearing an Albanian cap, supporting in his dexter hand a ring Or set with a sapphire; second, an ash-grey field completely filled by a portcullis Gules studded Argent. The cap's tincture is not specified.

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Gatzert Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a human heart Gules pierced by two arrows Sable in saltire; second and third, Azure, an anchor Argent.

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Gaudecker Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Gules, three ox horns Argent arranged in pall, their tips towards the edges of the shield.

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Gaudentz Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Vert, a stag rampant holding a leafy bunch of grapes between its teeth, all proper, the stag in the first quarter reversed; second and third, Gules, a horse galloping Argent, that in the third quarter reversed.

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Gaudot Coat of Arms

Franche-Comté, Prussia.
Gules, a chevron Or charged with two eagles Sable beaked, membered and crowned Or, aligned with its limbs, between three lions Or, the two in chief facing one another and that in base reversed.

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Gaudy Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, three leafy ears of grain Or standing in a row on a terrace Vert.

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Gaugreben or Gaugreve Coat of Arms

Rhine Province; three-pallet version.
Argent, three pallets Sable.

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Westphalia; paly variant.
Paly Argent and Sable.

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Gaultier de Saint-Blancard (Barons) Coat of Arms

Prussia; Barons of the Holy Roman Empire, 1721.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Sable, three cocks Or with their dexter feet raised, those in the first quarter reversed; second and third, Argent, a bend Azure.

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Gaultier de St.-Blancard Coat of Arms

Prussia; simple arms.
Argent, a bend Azure.

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Gavel Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, on a bend or three roses of the field.

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Livonia, Prussia.
Azure, a chevron Or charged with a five-pointed star Azure, between three five-pointed stars Or.

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Gavi Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: first, Azure, three stars Or in fess; second, Or, a Moor's head, its tincture unspecified.

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Gay Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per pale argent and gules, a man's bust in profile habited counterchanged, issuing from a mount or, wearing an Albanian cap gules turned up argent; in chief two stars counterchanged.

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Germany.
Per fess argent and gules, a lion rampant counterchanged.

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Gayette Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per fess: first, Gules, a pelican with its young in its nest, all Argent; second, Azure, a sinister arm in armour Argent issuing from a cloud Argent at the side and holding a sword whose tincture is unspecified.

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Gayl Coat of Arms

Hanover, Alsace, Silesia, Courland.
Per fess: first, Or, two roses Gules barbed Vert side by side; second, Azure, a fleur-de-lis Gules.

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Gayling d'Altheim Coat of Arms

Alsace, Baden, Hesse.
Azure, a stag's antlers Argent.

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Gaylingen Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Per fess argent and sable.

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Gaysspitz Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Argent, seven lozenges sable, four and three.

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Gazan called Gaza Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, a vine Argent entwining its stake Argent, leaved Vert and bearing two bunches of grapes proper; second and third, Or, a Moor's head blindfolded Argent, that in the third quarter reversed. The heads' tincture is not specified.

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Ge surnames

Gebauer Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per bend sinister: first, Gules, a demi-horse Argent issuing from the partition; second, Azure plain. Overall a bend sinister Argent.

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Gebelzig, Gbelsk, Gebeltzig or Gebeltzk Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Gules, an arrow Or bendwise crossed in saltire with a brownish ragged staff in bend sinister.

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Gebhard Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Argent, two swords Azure in saltire, points downwards.

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Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Azure, two stars Argent in chief and a cabbage Vert in base.

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Prussia.
Azure, an angel vested Argent girdled and crowned Or, its raised wings Gules each charged with a star Or, holding a curved fish Or palewise in each hand, the fish on the sinister reversed. The angel's flesh tincture is not specified.

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Gebhard de Göppelsberg Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Tierced in fess: first, azure, a crown or; second, or, a fleur-de-lis argent; third, sable, a fleur-de-lis argent.

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Gebhardi Coat of Arms

Brunswick.
Or, a double-headed eagle Sable surmounted by a crown Azure with ribbons Or, the eagle bearing on its breast an escutcheon Argent charged with a heart Gules from which issue five roses Gules seeded Or and stalked Vert.

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Gebhardt Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, per fess, per pale Gules and Argent above a sea proper, overall a merman vested per pale Or and Sable, wearing a cap Sable turned up Or and holding a key Or on his dexter shoulder; second and third, Sable, a lion Or crowned Or. The merman's uncovered tincture is not specified.

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Silesia.
Gules, a stag passant proper.

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Geböck d'Arnbach Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, a fess dancetty Argent; second and third, per pale, Argent with a fess Sable, and a further division per pale Gules plain and Sable with a fess Argent. On an inescutcheon Gules, a dove Argent.

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Gebusch Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Gules, two triangles voided Or interlaced to form a star.

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Geest Coat of Arms

East Frisia.
Azure, a dove Argent flying above a terrace Vert.

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Geggenhofer Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Argent, an ape sejant Sable holding an apple Gules.

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Gegingen Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Argent, a chevron gules.

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Gehler Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Or, a rose branch Vert in bend sinister bearing three roses Gules.

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Gehofen Coat of Arms

Thuringia.
Azure, two crescents addorsed or.

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Gehren Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Azure, a chevron Or accompanied in base by a star Or.

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Hesse.
Azure, a chevron with curved sides Or accompanied in base by a star Argent.

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Geibel Coat of Arms

Munich, Bavaria.
Or, a fleur-de-lis azure.

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Geibler Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Azure, three trefoils argent.

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Geider Coat of Arms

Nördlingen, Bavaria, Swabia.
Per bend Gules and Argent, a fleur-de-lis bendwise counterchanged.

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Geidertheim Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Per pale Or and Sable, a chevron counterchanged.

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Geigenberger Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, a pale Or charged with a violin Gules neck downwards, between an inverted hammer Or on the dexter and an upright hammer Or on the sinister.

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Geiger Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per bend Or and Azure, a violin bendwise counterchanged.

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Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Sable, an apothecary's mortar Or standing on a mount Vert.

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Ulm, Württemberg, Swabia.
Per fess Argent and Sable, two ox heads and necks reversed counterchanged.

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Geilsdorf Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Per pale: first, Gules, a fess Argent; second, Azure, a wolf rampant carrying off a lamb, all proper, supported by a terrace Argent.

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Geindersdorf Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Gules, on two fesses argent five balls sable, three and two.

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Geisbusch Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, seven lozenges sable, four and three.

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Geisendorf Coat of Arms

Rothenburg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Argent, two chevrons gules.

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Geisendorf called Groesser Coat of Arms

Germany.
Chevronny of four Gules and Or.

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Geisenhauser Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Per pale: first, per fess Or and Azure, a lion counterchanged; second, Or, two fleurs-de-lis Azure in pale.

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Geisler Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Per pale Argent and Sable, a chevron counterchanged.

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Geisler von und zu Deining Coat of Arms

Prussia, Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, per pale, Or with a demi-eagle Sable, and a further division per pale Gules with a fess Sable and Sable plain; second, paly of four Or and Gules; third, paly of four Gules and Or. On a crowned inescutcheon per pale Argent and Sable, a chevron counterchanged. The crown's tincture is not specified.

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Geislitzer de Wittweng Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, a swan Argent with its neck raised standing on a mount Vert, holding a ring Or in its raised dexter foot, accompanied by three stars Or arranged one and two; two curved lines from the centre of the chief to the lower corners divide off lateral compartments Argent, each charged with a laurel wreath Vert.

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Geismar Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Per fess: first, Argent, a demi-eagle Sable issuing from the partition; second, Gules, a wheel Argent.

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Geismar de Stockum (Barons) Coat of Arms

Hanover.
Quarterly: first and fourth, per fess, Argent with a demi-eagle Sable issuing from the horizontal partition, and Gules with a wheel Argent; second and third, Azure, a stag's antler Argent.

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Geissler Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Azure, a unicorn salient Or supported by a mount Argent.

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Silesia.
Azure, a flail Or with three lashes in bend sinister; on a chief Purpure, a royal crown Or.

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Geistern or Ghestern Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Or, a demi-lion Sable.

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Geisweiler Coat of Arms

Rhine Province, Bavaria.
Quarterly Azure and Or, on the dexter half a goat rampant and reversed Argent extending across the horizontal division; on the sinister half a Moor likewise extending across the horizontal division, girdled with feathers Gules and crowned Or, holding in his dexter hand an arrow Sable palewise with point downwards. The Moor's body tincture is unspecified.

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Gelb Coat of Arms

Alsace, Bavaria.
Or, three bends sinister gules.

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Gelbke Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, two arms in armour Argent side by side, their hands proper holding an annulet Or together; second and third, Azure, a bundle of six lances Or tipped Argent, bound with a ribbon Argent making three turns in bend sinister.

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Geldel Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per bend sinister Gules and Argent, overall a griffin Or without wings, holding a small tub proper between its paws; on a base Azure, five lozenges Argent conjoined in a row tilted towards sinister.

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Geldermayr de Gelderhofen Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a lion Or crowned Or, that in the first quarter reversed; second and third, Or, a demi-eagle Sable crowned Or issuing from the pale partition. On an inescutcheon per fess: first, Or, an eagle Sable; second, paly Gules and Argent.

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Geldern zu Arcen Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per pale: first, Azure, a lion reversed Or crowned Or; second, Or, a lion Sable.

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Geldrich de Sigmarshofen Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Argent, three greyhounds courant Gules collared and buckled Or, one above another.

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Gelen Coat of Arms

Brunswick.
Gules, two batons or in saltire between four annulets of the same.

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Gellhorn Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Argent, a bend Gules charged with three hunting-horns Sable mouthed and banded Or, each placed in bend sinister.

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Silesia.
Azure, a hunting-horn Sable stringed, mouthed, banded and belled Or, its mouthpiece towards dexter.

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Gelnauer Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per bend Sable and Or, a unicorn rampant counterchanged.

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Gelnauer d'Ergarten Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per pale: first, per bend sinister Sable and Or, a unicorn rampant counterchanged; second, Sable, a chevron with curved sides Or.

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Gelsdorff Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first, azure plain; second, or a lion rampant sable armed and langued azure; third, or three wall anchors sable; fourth, azure ten roundels argent arranged four, three, two and one.

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Geltmann Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Per fess: first, Argent, a demi-man vested Sable with his dexter hand extended; second, Argent, a millrind Sable.

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Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Or, on a fess azure a fish naiant argent.

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Geltner Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Argent, a demi-eagle Gules issuing from a base Gules charged with two bars Argent.

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Gemeiner Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per bend: first, azure, a stag rampant proper; second, argent, two bends gules.

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Gemeiner Edle auf St.-Mariakirchen Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, a hammer-head Argent palewise; second and third, Azure, an oak branch Vert with three acorns Or. On an inescutcheon per pale Sable and Argent, a man wearing a conical hat counterchanged, standing on a mount Vert with arms extended, holding a hammer-head Argent in his dexter hand and an oak branch Vert with three acorns Or in his sinister hand.

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Gemell zu Flischbach Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess: first, Argent, two naked boys girdled and crowned with ivy, together supporting a heart Gules with one hand each, their free hands on their hips; second, Gules, an escutcheon Or at the centre between three roundels Argent, the escutcheon charged with a lime leaf Vert stalk downwards. The boys' flesh and ivy tinctures are not specified.

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Gemell zu Flischbach auf Lauffenburg Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Gules, a pale Argent sharpened at the top, disappearing into a mass of clouds proper in base, the central clouds lowered; on either side of the pale a naked boy affronty wearing an apron Argent and supported by the clouds, the boys together holding a heart Gules above an escutcheon Or which lies overall on the pale and is charged with a lime leaf Sable veined Or. The boys' flesh tincture is not specified.

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Gemmingen-Gutenberg (Barons) Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Azure, two fesses or.

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Gemmrich de Neuberg Coat of Arms

Bohemia, Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a demi-eagle Sable beaked and membered Or issuing from the pale partition; second and third, per fess Gules and Argent. On an inescutcheon per fess Or and Sable, a hunting dog's head and neck Argent issuing from the base, langued Gules and collared Sable edged and buckled Or.

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Gemünden Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, three fesses or.

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Geneich de Löwenhof Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a lion Gules holding a stem bearing three roses Gules arranged one and two, the lion in the first quarter reversed; second and third, Azure, two towers Argent, one in the dexter chief corner and one in the sinister base corner. Overall a bend sinister Or. The rose stem's tincture is not specified.

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Genschuk (Knights) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Argent, a stag springing proper, its neck pierced by a sword bendwise point downwards, the wound dripping blood. The sword's tincture is not specified.

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Genserin de Geswitz (Knights) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, three trefoils Vert issuing from one stalk on a terrace Vert; second and third, Gules, a peacock proper on a terrace Vert.

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Gentzkow Coat of Arms

Pomerania, Mecklenburg, Hanover.
Argent, a tree trunk eradicated proper bendwise, sprouting three leaves upwards.

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Gentzsche Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Per fess: first, Or, a ragged staff proper bendwise, bearing two apples Gules on its dexter side and one apple Gules on its sinister side; second, Gules, two bars Argent and overall a triangular point Sable with outward-curving sides, charged with a goose rising Argent beaked and membered Or.

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Georg de Ritterstein Coat of Arms

Germany.
Argent, Saint George on foot fully armed Azure, piercing the jaws of a dragon Vert with his lance. The lance's tincture is not specified.

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George Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Argent, a lion Azure supporting a crown Or in its sinister paw.

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Silesia.
Per pale: first, Sable, two bends sinister Or; second, Argent, Saint George on foot proper with a halo Or, overcoming a dragon Gules.

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Georgenthal Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a sparrowhawk volant Or with wings lowered, holding a ring Or in its beak; second and third, per fess Gules and Argent, a rose counterchanged. In a point in base Vert, Saint George on horseback piercing a dragon beneath him with his lance, the whole surrounded by flames; the tinctures of this group are unspecified.

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Geps Coat of Arms

Bavaria, Champagne.
Azure, two hunting-horns Or back to back, surmounted by a helmet Argent in profile.

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Gérard Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per pale Argent and Azure, six stars counterchanged arranged in two columns. On an inescutcheon Or, an eagle Sable.

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Gerbel-Embach Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Per pale argent and gules, on a bend sinister azure three stars or.

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Gerber Coat of Arms

Lübeck.
Or, a young demi-man affronty issuing from the base, vested Vert with a collar Argent, holding an apple Gules stalk upwards in both hands raised above his head.

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Silesia.
Azure, a mermaid proper swimming in a sea proper, holding a lighted torch proper before the eyes of an eagle rising reversed Sable, beaked, membered and surmounted by a royal crown Or, standing on a rock proper rising from the sea and issuing from the dexter side; a bordure Or.

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Gerbert de Hornau Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, a demi-ram Argent browsing a branch Argent held in its forefeet and passing fesswise beneath its body, the upper end of the branch bearing three leaves Vert.

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Gerbhard Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per pale: first, Chequy sable and or; second, or, a griffin gules.

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Gerdes Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, two sickles Argent facing one another, hafted Or and with serrated cutting edges.

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Lübeck, Bremen.
Per fess: first, Or, three trefoils Vert in fess; second, Argent, three hearts Gules, two and one. Overall a fess Azure.

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Gerdtel Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, three stars Or arranged one and two; second and third, Vert, two arrows Argent in saltire points downwards. A bordure Or.

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Geresleben Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Per fess: first, Gules, a demi-lion Or crowned Or issuing from the partition; second, chequy Gules and Argent.

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Gerestein Coat of Arms

Westphalia; alternative version with annulet.
Argent, an escutcheon Gules at the centre and an annulet Gules in the dexter chief corner.

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Westphalia; plain escutcheon version.
Argent, an escutcheon Gules at the centre.

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Gerhard Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, a crane Argent crowned Or, holding a ring Or in its beak, wearing a medallion Argent at its neck and standing on a mount Vert.

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Germany.
Gules, a periwinkle flower Argent seeded Or, stalked and with two leaves Or.

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Gerhardi (Knights) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, azure, a lion rampant or crowned gules; second and third, gules, on a bend sinister or three roses of the field.

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Gerhardt Coat of Arms

Germany.
Or, an open book proper held by two arms vested Sable and half hidden behind the book.

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Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, three bars Azure; second, Argent, three caltrops Or, two and one; third, Argent, three caltrops Or, one and two. A bordure Or. On an inescutcheon Azure, a demi-stag proper issuing from the base.

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Gerhardtsberg Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a lion Or supporting a star Or in one paw, that in the first quarter reversed; second and third, bendy sinister of four Argent and Gules.

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Gerhauser (Barons) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Or, on a bend sable three stars of the field.

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Gering Coat of Arms

Nördlingen, Bavaria, Swabia.
Or, a demi-man in profile vested Sable and wearing a pointed cap Sable, holding a stem with three roses Gules and leaves Vert.

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Regensburg, Bavaria.
Or, a bear rampant Sable carrying a pike Sable on its shoulder.

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Gerkien, Görkien, Girkien or Jerkien Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Argent, a buffalo's head caboshed Sable.

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Gerl Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, a chevron Argent between two stars Or in chief and a fleur-de-lis Or in base, the chevron charged with two pennons Azure attached to lances Sable, each pennon charged with a chevron Argent.

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Gerlach Coat of Arms

Cologne, Rhine Province.
Argent, a demi-horse Sable issuing from water proper in base.

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Pomerania.
Sable, a demi-horse Argent issuing from flames proper in base.

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Gerle Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Or, a mandolin Azure stringed Argent palewise.

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Germain (Knights) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: first, Sable, a greyhound courant Argent collared Gules; second, Azure, a chevron Or between three fire baskets Argent burning Or.

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Germann (Edle von) Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Per pale: first, Or, two wooden bridges one above another, each supported by four pontoons proper; second, Or, a bend Gules charged with three annulets Argent.

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Germar Coat of Arms

Saxony, Prussia.
Gules, a back-basket Argent hooped and bound Or.

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Germers Coat of Arms

Hamburg.
Gules, a fess Argent charged with the letters C I A M T, accompanied in chief by a demi-horse Argent issuing from the fess and in base by a bunch of grapes Argent stalk downwards. The letters' tincture is not specified.

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Germersheim Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Azure, an eagle or crowned of the same.

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Germersheim (Edle von) Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, an eagle Sable, that in the fourth quarter reversed; second and third, per fess, Argent with a pine tree proper issuing from the horizontal partition, and Vert with two bars Argent.

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Gerning Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Per fess: first, gules a stem vert bearing three cornflowers azure arranged one and two, issuing from the division; second, azure a wheel or of six spokes.

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Gernler Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per pale: first, Sable, a Maltese cross Argent accompanied in the sinister chief corner by a trefoil Vert bendwise; second, Azure, a ram rampant per fess Sable and Argent.

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Gerolt (Barons) Coat of Arms

Prussia; Barons, 1858.
Quarterly: first and fourth, divided into triangles Sable and Gules by a horizontal partition, two lines in bend sinister and two in bend, the upward-pointing triangles Sable and the downward-pointing triangles Gules; second and third, Or, a man of natural flesh colour standing on rocks proper, girdled with ribbons Gules and Sable, wearing a cap Or with three cock feathers, one Gules between two Sable, and holding a trident bendwise sinister with prongs downwards. The trident's tincture is unspecified.

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Gerolt de Leyen Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Quarterly: first and fourth, divided into triangles Sable and Gules by a horizontal partition, two lines in bend sinister and two in bend, the upward-pointing triangles Sable and the downward-pointing triangles Gules; second and third, Or, a man proper standing on rocks proper, girdled with ribbons Gules and Sable, wearing a cap Or with three cock feathers, one Gules between two Sable, and holding a trident in bend sinister, prongs downwards. The trident's tincture is not specified.

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Geroltowsky Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Argent, a headless eagle Sable.

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Geroltstein Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Argent, an escutcheon gules at the centre.

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Gerresheim Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, a hind rampant proper supported by a rocky terrace Or; a bordure Or.

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Gersdorf Coat of Arms

Pomerania, Silesia, Saxony.
Per fess: first, gules; second, per pale sable and argent.

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Gersdorf de Baruth Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Per fess: first, gules; second, per pale argent and sable.

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Gersdorf de Kaupa Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Per fess: first, gules; second, per pale argent and sable.

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Gersheim Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Gules, a fess Sable between two roses Argent in chief and a rose Or in base.

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Saxony; alternative arms.
Per fess: above, Gules, two roses Or side by side; below, Vert, a rose Gules. Overall, a fess Argent across the division.

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Gersonn de Ghersburg Coat of Arms

Frankfurt, Hesse.
Per fess: first, Gules, two pikes Argent tasselled Or in saltire; second, Argent, a sun Gules rising behind a mount Vert.

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Gerstein-Hohenstein Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, a mountain of three steep peaks proper, each peak surmounted by a lance Or.

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Gerstenberg Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Argent, a chevron with curved sides Gules.

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Gerstenbergk Edle von Zech Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a demi-eagle Sable crowned Or issuing from the vertical division; second, per fess, above Sable a demi-lion Or described as issuing from the vertical division, below chequy Or and Gules in two rows of four squares; third, Azure, a vine stem Argent bendwise bearing two vine leaves Vert and two bunches of grapes Or. Overall, an inescutcheon Azure charged with Saint George on foot piercing a dragon couchant with his lance, all proper.

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Gerstenbergk où Gerstenbergk called Müller Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Azure, Saint George on foot piercing with his lance a dragon couchant, all proper.

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Gerstmann Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Gules, a bend Argent charged with three heads of barley ears, each palewise; the barley's tincture is unspecified.

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Gerstner Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Azure, three ears of barley Or leaved Or issuing from a single stalk which rises from the base.

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Styria, Bavaria.
Per pale: first, Azure, a garb Or; second, Or, a chamois rampant proper.

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Gertner Coat of Arms

Basel, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per pale Or and Gules, a man vested and wearing a cap counterchanged, standing on a mount Vert, holding a sickle Sable palewise in his raised dexter hand and a bunch of grapes proper in his lowered sinister hand.

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Gerung Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per fess: first, Or, a demi-unicorn Gules issuing from the partition; second, Azure, three stars Argent arranged one and two.

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Gervaise-Cousy Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Argent, a fess gules.

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Gerwer Coat of Arms

Hamburg.
Gules, a round bale Or bound around its middle with a vertical band Or.

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Geschaw Coat of Arms

Poland, Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a crane in its vigilance Argent, its sinister foot chained to a square stone proper, the crane in the first quarter reversed; second, Or, a sinister arm proper issuing from a cloud and holding a sword Argent; third, Or, a dexter arm proper issuing from a cloud and holding a sword Argent. The clouds and chain tinctures are not specified.

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Geschowski Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Per fess: first, Gules plain; second, Azure, fourteen half-annulets Argent joined in the shape of a bunch of grapes.

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Gesler Coat of Arms

Germany.
Sable, a bend Or charged with a stag's antler Gules bendwise.

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Gessel Coat of Arms

Germany.
Or, a demi-ox Sable horned Gules issuing from a mount Gules.

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Gessenberg d'Altenhaim Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess Argent and Sable, a sea-horse counterchanged, its tail downwards and curved towards dexter.

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Gessler Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Azure, a fess Argent between three stars Argent. On an inescutcheon Argent surmounted by a crown of five pearls, a Prussian eagle Sable beaked and membered Or, surmounted by a royal crown Or, each wing charged with a semicircular band Or with trefoil ends, its breast bearing the crowned intertwined cipher FR Or; the eagle holding a sceptre and orb, whose tinctures are not specified.

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Gessner Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Per fess: first, Azure, a lion passant Or; second, Argent, a mount of three peaks Vert surmounted by six sceptres Azure arranged in three pairs in fess, each pair crossed in saltire.

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Rothenburg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per fess: first, Azure, a pelican Argent in its nest with its piety Gules; second, Argent, three bends sinister Azure, each charged with three roundels Argent.

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Gestrzibsky (Knights) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, a stirrup or.

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Gettkandt Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, a ladder Argent in bend sinister; a bordure Or.

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Geusau (Barons) Coat of Arms

Saxony, Prussia, Baden.
Azure, a goose Argent beaked and membered Gules, its wings raised.

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Geuschmidt Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per fess: first, Or, a demi-eagle Sable issuing from the partition; second, Gules, an annulet Argent.

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Geusel Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Azure, a fleur-de-lis Argent with its central petal Or.

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Geverdes Coat of Arms

Lübeck.
Or, a greyhound Argent collared Or running before the trunk of a tree Vert, all supported by a terrace Vert.

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Gevertzhan or Gevertzhagen Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Gules, three lozenges Argent touching at their points in bend sinister, surrounded by six fleurs-de-lis Or in orle, each bend sinisterwise.

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Geyer Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Or, a vulture rising proper standing on a mount of three peaks Vert; a chief Azure.

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Regensburg, Bavaria.
Or, a vulture Gules with wings raised standing on a mount Vert.

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Saxony.
Azure, a vulture rising proper, its head reversed, standing on a mount Vert.

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Geyer de Warburg Coat of Arms

Germany.
Or, a vulture's head and neck Sable beaked Or.

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Geynen Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, three crescents Argent with human faces, their horns downwards, arranged and placed bendwise, accompanied on their dexter side by three stars Argent in bend; a chief Gules supported by a narrow bar Or.

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Geyr de Schweppenburg Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Or, a vulture's head and neck Sable beaked Azure, langued Gules and crowned Or.

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Geysingen Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Gules, a fan Argent handled Argent.

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Geyss Coat of Arms

Rothenburg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Or, a cock Sable with its dexter foot raised, beaked Or, combed, wattled and membered Gules, its body ending in a fish's tail proper, the tail raised.

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Geyst de Wildeck Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Azure, a falcon Argent with wings raised standing on a terrace Vert.

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Gfug Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Per bend: first, Gules, a horse galloping Argent bendwise; second, Or, three roses Gules in bend. Overall a river proper bendwise.

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Silesia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a wing Sable, that in the first quarter reversed; second and third, chequy Gules and Argent. On an inescutcheon per bend: first, Gules, a horse galloping Argent bendwise; second, Or, three roses Gules in bend; overall a river bendwise, its tincture unspecified in this version.

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Gh surnames

Gheldersen Coat of Arms

Hamburg.
Azure, a fess Argent charged with three hills Vert side by side.

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Ghillany Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Azure, a lion Argent holding a sabre Argent in its dexter paw and a crown Or in its sinister paw.

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Ghisels Coat of Arms

Rhine Province, Liège.
Per pale: first, Vert, a goat's head and neck Argent horned and bearded Or; second, Gules, a goat's head and neck Argent horned and bearded Or.

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Gi surnames

Gibing Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Or, a lozenge gules.

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Gibsone Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Gules, three keys or placed horizontally one above another, within a bordure or.

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Giech Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly of nine in three columns and three rows: first and ninth, Argent, an arm vested Azure cuffed Or holding three trefoils Or with their roots, in the first quarter issuing from the dexter base corner and holding the trefoils bendwise, in the ninth issuing from the sinister base corner and holding them bend sinisterwise; second and eighth, Gules, a swan Argent beaked and membered Sable; third and seventh, Azure, three balls Or; fourth and sixth, Gules, a mill-wheel Argent; fifth, Argent, two pairs of shears Gules side by side, points upwards. The arms' flesh tincture is not specified.

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Giehrl auf Sonnenberg Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, a rock argent, above it a sun or.

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Gierla Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: first, Or, an eagle Argent holding a trefoil Sable in its beak and another trefoil Sable in its dexter talon; second, bendy of four Argent and Gules.

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Giese Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per bend: first, Vert, three stars Or, two and one; second, Or, a triangular point Vert in bend sinister issuing from the dexter base corner.

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Westphalia.
Per bend Azure and Or, the Azure charged with three stars Or, two and one.

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Giese or Gise Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Quarterly: first, Azure, a lion reversed Or crowned Or, holding an arrow Or bendwise in its sinister paw; second and third, Or, three bars Gules; fourth, Azure, a swan Argent seated on a crown Or.

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Giesen Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Or, five palisade stakes Sable passing through a plank Sable fesswise.

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Gieser de Tegernbach Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Gules, a dexter hand appaumée proper charged with a small cross pattée Gules.

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Giessperger Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Gules, a pitcher Or standing on a mount Argent.

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Gietl Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess: first, Azure, two laurel branches Vert in saltire; second, Sable, a Medusa's head Or.

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Giggenbach zu Gebersreith Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess Or and Azure, the Or charged with a swan proper swimming on the partition line.

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Gignoux (Edle von) Coat of Arms

Augsburg, Bavaria, Swabia.
Per fess: first, per pale, Azure with a fleur-de-lis Or, and Argent with an apple branch bend sinisterwise, leaved and fruited proper; second, Or, a sinister arm couped at the shoulder and bleeding, vested Argent, holding an antique lamp Sable burning Gules. The hand's tincture is not specified.

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Gihler Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, on a bend sinister argent three roses gules.

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Gildemeister Coat of Arms

Bremen.
Azure, three trefoils Vert with long stalks joining in a mount of three peaks Vert.

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Gilg de Gilgenburg Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a demi-eagle Sable issuing from the pale partition; second and third, Azure, a tower Argent with door and windows Gules, standing on a terrace Vert. Overall a river proper fesswise.

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Gill Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a crowned lion supporting a star in its dexter paw, all Or; second and third, Argent, a fleur-de-lis Gules.

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Gillardi Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess: first, Argent, a lion passant Gules; second, Gules, four barrulets dancetty Argent.

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Gillern Coat of Arms

Silesia; fleurs-de-lis bendwise.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a star Or within a bordure Argent; second and third, Argent, a bend sinister Gules charged with three fleurs-de-lis Or, each bendwise. On an inescutcheon Argent, a Turk's head proper in profile wearing a turban Vert wreathed Gules and Argent.

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Silesia; variant with fleurs-de-lis palewise.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a star Or within a bordure Argent; second and third, Argent, a bend sinister Gules charged with three fleurs-de-lis Or, each palewise. On an inescutcheon Argent, a Turk's head proper in profile wearing a turban Vert wreathed Gules and Argent.

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Gillern de Lilienfeld Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a star Or within a bordure Argent; second and third, Argent, a bend sinister Gules charged with three fleurs-de-lis Or, each bendwise.

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Gillhausen Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a hunting dog Argent holding a bird Argent between its teeth, seated on a terrace Vert; second and third, Vert, a house Or.

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Gillig Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Gules, Hope represented as a woman wearing a tunic Argent and skirt Azure, her arms bare and her dexter hand resting on an anchor Argent, all supported by a terrace Vert. Her flesh tincture is not specified.

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Gilly de Montaut Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per bend sinister Argent and Or, the whole field semy of roses Gules and fleurs-de-lis Azure; overall an eagle's head and neck Sable beaked Or and surmounted by a royal crown Or.

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Gilm zu Rosenegg Coat of Arms

Baden.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a lion Gules holding a letter G Gules between its paws; second and third, Azure, three mountains Vert side by side issuing from the base, accompanied in chief by a star Or.

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Gilsa Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Vert, three fesses wavy argent.

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Gilstorp Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, a bend azure.

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Gimborn Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Or, on a chief Azure three lozenge-shaped buckles Or, their tongues fesswise.

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Gimte Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Or, three fleurs-de-lis sable.

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Ginsheim zu Schwindach Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Or, a snake called a Nesselwurm Sable, palewise and curved in a semicircle.

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Ginz-Rekowski Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Azure, a scorpion Or fesswise in base, surmounted by a sword Argent hilted Or point downwards, the sword accompanied on its dexter side by a crescent Argent with its horns towards sinister and on its sinister side by two stars Argent in pale.

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Ginzburger Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, three drinking cups Argent hooped Or.

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Gironcourt de Vaumoncourt Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, a sword Argent hilted Or bendwise, on a chief Or two wreaths of foliage Vert; second, Argent, a fess Gules between three trees eradicated Vert; third, Argent, three cocks Gules.

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Girt called Gerhard Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per pale: first, Sable, a griffin Or supported by three rocky peaks Argent; second, Gules, three bends sinister Argent.

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Gische Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Per fess: first, per pale, Azure with three stars Or, and Argent with a lion Gules; second, Gules, a wall embattled surmounted by three towers, all Argent masoned Sable.

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Gisterle Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Per pale Sable and Argent, a demi-man issuing from the base vested counterchanged and surmounted by a royal crown Or.

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Gittburg Coat of Arms

Germany.
Argent, three pallets Gules; on a chief Argent, a label Gules.

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Gittelde Coat of Arms

Brunswick.
Gules, two keys Argent palewise back to back.

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Giuliani (Knights) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or, on a bend gules an arrow argent in bend; second and third, azure, a unicorn salient or.

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Gizycki Coat of Arms

Prussia; recognition of nobility, 1820.
Gules, two fleurs-de-lis Argent with their lower parts cut off, one above the other, their bases opposed and joined.

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Glabsperger Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Or, a fleur-de-lis Sable issuing from a mount Sable.

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Gladebeck Coat of Arms

Silesia, Saxony.
Per fess: first, Or, a lion passant Sable; second, Argent, eight barrulets wavy Azure.

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Gladis Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Argent, a stag passant gules.

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Glan Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Gules, a chevron Or accompanied in base by a small cross pattée Or.

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Glaner Coat of Arms

Augsburg, Bavaria, Swabia.
Per pale Sable and Gules, overall a chevron with curved sides Argent between three stars Argent.

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Glasau Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Argent, on a bend azure three stars or.

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Glasenapp Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, Saint George on horseback Argent piercing with his lance a dragon Sable beneath him, the dragon emitting flames.

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Glaser Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Gules, a stag argent.

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Prussia.
Per pale: first, azure a sabre argent in bend sinister and a pike argent in bend, crossed in saltire between two stars argent in pale; second, argent a demi-eagle sable issuing from the partition, beaked, membered and crowned or, holding a sceptre or. A bordure or surrounds the shield.

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Westphalia, Basel.
Or, two wings Sable back to back issuing from a ball Sable in base.

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Gläser Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per fess: first, Azure, a wineglass Argent filled with wine Or; second, Or, a fish Azure swimming towards sinister.

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Glass Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Gules, two wings argent back to back, each charged with a fess azure.

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Glasser Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: first, Sable, a lion passant Or; second, Or with lateral compartments Azure bounded by lines from the centre of that division's top edge to its lower corners, three stars counterchanged.

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Saxony.
Per fess Gules and Argent, overall a charge Azure in the form of a Latin cross, its upper shaft crossed again and its arms bent downwards at their ends and terminating in tassels Or; the lower shaft flanked by two stars Gules on the Argent.

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Glassnapf Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Gules, a glass bowl Argent.

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Glatz (Knights) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Argent, a man's head proper affronty between two wings Gules back to back.

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Glätzelmann Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Gules, a fess argent between three roses of the same.

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Glauburg (Barons) Coat of Arms

Frankfurt, Hesse.
Argent, a chevron sable between three castles gules.

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Glaufenberg Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Or, a demi-horse Sable.

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Gleichauf de Gleichenstein Coat of Arms

Baden.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a bend chequy Sable and Argent; second and third, Gules, a millrind Argent lying horizontally between two stars Or, one in chief and one in base. On an inescutcheon Azure, a knight holding a raised sword, the knight and sword's tinctures unspecified.

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Gleichen Coat of Arms

Bavaria, Saxony.
Argent, two bear paws Sable back to back.

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Swabia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, argent, a stag passant proper; second and third, or, a cross moline gules; overall an escutcheon azure charged with a lion rampant argent crowned or.

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Gleichmann Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Vert, a fess Or accompanied by a star Or in the sinister chief corner.

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Gleissenthal Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first, Argent, a chief Sable; second and third, Sable plain; fourth, Argent, a base Sable.

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Glenckersheim Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per pale: first, Sable, an arm palewise vested Argent, its hand proper; second, Argent, a buffalo horn Sable.

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Glett und Ogsburg (Burgraves von) Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Per fess: first, Argent, a demi-eagle Sable issuing from the partition, its wings charged with semicircular bands Or with trefoil ends; second, Gules plain.

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Gletzelmann Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Gules, a fess argent between three flowers, six leaves of the same.

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Gleycher Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Or, four crescents sable, two and two.

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Glimenheim Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Per pale: first, Gules, a demi-eagle Or issuing from the partition; second, Argent, three bars Azure, the upper edge of each nebuly.

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Glinski Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Azure, a crescent with a human face and its horns downwards, between two stars in chief and an arrow palewise point upwards in base, all Argent.

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Glisczinski or Chamier-Glisczinski Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, a crescent Or with its horns towards dexter, accompanied by three stars Or.

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Glöb Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, a chevron sable between three birds argent.

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Globig Coat of Arms

Saxony, Prussia.
Argent, three reeds proper standing on a mount Vert.

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Globig-Jagdsheim Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Azure, a lion rampant or.

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Globiz (Barons) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, a lion rampant or crowned of the same.

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Glockengiesser Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Sable, a chevron with curved sides between two stars in chief and a bell in base, all Or.

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Glöckler Coat of Arms

Frankfurt, Hesse.
Azure, a horse rearing Argent.

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Glockmann Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Gules, a sword Argent hilted Or point downwards, between two crescents Or with human faces back to back.

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Glockner Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, a fess Argent and overall a bell Or, accompanied in base by a mount Vert.

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Glöden Coat of Arms

Mecklenburg, Pomerania.
Azure, a wheel of six spokes Argent.

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Pomerania.
Argent, a goat's horn Azure.

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Pomerania; alternative chamois-horn arms.
Azure, a chamois horn proper.

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Gloede Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: first, Argent, a heart Gules flaming proper; second, Or, a bird proper holding a stalk with three leaves Vert in its beak, perched on a leafy branch issuing from a tree trunk proper on a terrace Vert.

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Pomerania.
Argent, a thin horizontal line Azure dividing the shield, in chief a heart Gules flaming proper, in base a dove Argent beaked and membered Gules, holding an olive leaf Vert in its beak and perched on a trunk proper on a terrace Vert.

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Gloger de Schwanenbach Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Gules, an apple tree Vert fruited Or between two swans seated Argent facing one another and crowned Or, all supported by a terrace Vert.

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Glomsda de Buchholtz Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Argent, a fess Sable between three annulets Sable, two and one, a finch proper standing on the fess.

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Glotzeiss Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a lion Or supported by a mount Vert and holding a spade proper with its blade upwards, the lion in the first quarter reversed; second and third, Azure, a griffin Or holding a flag barry of four Or and Azure, the griffin in the third quarter reversed.

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Glück Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Per pale Sable and Or, overall a demi-man vested per pale Or and Gules with cuffs and collar counterchanged, buttons Or on the Gules, wearing a pointed cap Gules turned up Or, supporting a wheel Or on the Sable field in his dexter hand, his sinister hand on his hip.

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Glückh Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per pale Or and Gules, a demi-man in profile counterchanged, wearing an Albanian cap counterchanged and holding a sword Argent.

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Gluderer Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, a lion Or, that in the first quarter reversed; second and third, Argent, three bends sinister wavy Azure.

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Glüer Coat of Arms

Mecklenburg.
Azure, a steep rock of several peaks Argent surmounted by a dove Argent beaked and membered Gules.

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Glümer Coat of Arms

Brunswick.
Argent, on a bend sable three bunches of grapes or.

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Gluth Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, three stars argent.

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Gm surnames

Gmainer Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, per pale Gules and Or, the partition formed by three elongated triangular points; second and third, Sable, a lion Or, that in the third quarter reversed.

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Gnise de Kobach Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first, Argent, a demi-stork Sable issuing from the base; second, Sable, a leopard's head Or; third, Sable, a river proper in bend sinister; fourth, Argent, a leopard's head Or.

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Gnodstat Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Or, a demi-wolf per fess Gules and Sable.

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Göbel Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Azure, three fish Argent interlaced in a triangle.

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Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Argent, a pedestal Sable surmounted by three ostrich feathers Argent, accompanied in base by a ball Azure.

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Silesia.
Per pale: first, Or, a demi-eagle Sable issuing from the partition; second, Gules, a fess Or charged with two forks Argent hafted Sable in saltire, the fess accompanied both in chief and in base by a bend Argent.

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Gobel (von) auf Hofgiebing Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Or, a chevron Sable accompanied in base by three roundels Sable arranged one and two.

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Gobelius Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, a pale argent between two roses argent, the pale charged with a Latin cross gules supported in base by two rods gules arranged as a chevron.

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Göberg Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Per bend: first, Or, an eight-pointed star Azure; second, Azure, a crescent Or with its horns towards sinister, placed bendwise.

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Goberg de Volckenrod Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Or, two tilting lances Sable in an inverted chevron, their feet touching, each bearing a small pennon Sable on its outer side.

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Goddaeus Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a trefoil Vert in bend sinister; second and third, Argent, three hunting dogs' heads proper.

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Goddentow Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Per pale: first, Gules, a falcon reversed Argent perched on a ragged staff Vert in bend sinister; second, Azure, three bars Gules.

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Godeffroy Coat of Arms

Hamburg.
Azure, a hand gauntleted Or supporting a falcon Or, accompanied by two stars Argent in chief and three interlaced crescents Argent in base.

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Gödens Coat of Arms

East Frisia.
Or, a lion passant Sable issuing from the sinister side and passing behind three trees Vert on the sinister side, supported by a terrace Vert.

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Goder de Kriegstorff Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a griffin's head and neck Sable beaked Or; second and third, Gules, two pallets Argent.

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Godewisch Coat of Arms

Brunswick.
Per fess: first, Gules, a crescent Or horns downwards; second, Azure plain. Overall a fess Or.

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Godin [formerly Gaudain] Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a lion Gules, that in the first quarter reversed; second, Vert, a covered cup Or on the sinister side accompanied by a comet Or in the dexter chief corner; third, as the second but with the cup on the dexter and the comet on the sinister. On an inescutcheon Or, a double-headed eagle Sable.

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Gödingen Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Sable, an annulet or.

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Goebel Coat of Arms

Hanover.
Or, a chevron sable between three balls of the same.

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Silesia.
Azure, a horse's head and neck Argent.

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Goeben Coat of Arms

Prussia, Hanover.
Azure, a ragged trunk Argent palewise.

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Goeckel Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Argent, a double rose Gules stalked Vert with six leaves Vert, standing on a mount Sable.

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Goeckingk Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Vert, a marble column between two stars Argent; a bordure Argent.

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Goerts Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Argent, two bends sinister gules.

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Goeschen Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first, Azure, a swan Argent; second, Gules, three stars Or; third, Sable, a bend sinister Or between three stars Or, two in chief and one in base; fourth, Argent, three carnations Gules issuing from a single stalk Vert with two leaves Vert.

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Goethe Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Azure, a six-pointed star Argent; a bordure Argent.

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Goetz Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Azure, on a pale or four roses gules.

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Goetz d'Olenhusen Coat of Arms

Hanover, Hesse.
Per bend sinister: first, Gules, a demi-lion Argent issuing from the partition; second, Or, a bend sinister Gules.

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Gogel Coat of Arms

Frankfurt, Hesse.
Azure, a fish swimming Argent pierced by an arrow Argent palewise point upwards.

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Gögel Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Or, a hunting dog rampant proper collared and buckled Gules.

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Gogeritz Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Per pale argent and azure.

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Gogrissel Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Sable, seven crosses crosslet Or arranged four and three; a chief indented Argent.

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Göhl de Pothorstein Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, azure a lion rampant or; second and third, gules a heron proper crowned or standing on a mount vert.

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Gohr de Nahrstett Coat of Arms

Prussia, Bavaria.
Gules, a bend Azure charged with a vine Vert bearing three bunches of grapes proper.

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Gohren Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Argent, a chevron lowered Gules supporting a vulture reversed proper, its head turned towards dexter and flanked by two branches Vert.

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Goldacker Coat of Arms

Saxony, Prussia.
Per fess: first, Or, a demi-ibex Sable issuing from the partition; second, per pale Argent and Gules.

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Goldammer Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, per fess, Vert with a swan Argent issuing from a crown Or, that in the first quarter reversed, above barry of four Or and Vert; second and third, Or, a lion Sable crowned Or, that in the third quarter reversed. On an inescutcheon Azure, a bend Argent charged with three roses Gules.

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Goldaxt Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Vert, a demi-ox Or.

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Goldbach Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Gules, a fess Sable charged with a fess wavy Or; overall an anchor whose tincture is unspecified.

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Silesia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a bend sinister wavy Argent; second and third, Gules, a mountain of three peaks proper surmounted by a sun Or.

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Goldbeck Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, a fess Or between three covered cups Or; a bordure Or.

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Goldberger Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Per pale: first, Or, a demi-eagle Sable beaked and membered Gules issuing from the partition; second, per fess, Argent with a wing Sable, and Azure with two hammers Argent hafted Gules in saltire.

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Goldeck Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Or, two curved lines from the centre of the chief to the lower corners dividing off lateral compartments Gules.

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Golditz Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Or, a hunting-horn Gules banded and mouthed Argent.

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Goldner Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Quarterly: first, Azure, a cherub proper surmounted by a small cross Or between two stars Or; second, Sable, a mount of three peaks Vert issuing from the base and surmounted by a star Or; third, per pale, Gules with two barbels Argent back to back accompanied in chief by a trefoil Argent, and Azure with a lion Or; fourth, Or, a cock proper standing on a mount Vert. On an inescutcheon Argent, a bend Gules.

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Goldochs Coat of Arms

Augsburg, Bavaria, Swabia.
Sable, an ox or.

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Goldschmid Coat of Arms

Mecklenburg.
Or, a sinister arm vested Sable issuing from a cloud Argent at the side and holding a hammer, the hand and hammer's tinctures unspecified; on a canton Azure, a star Or.

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Goldschmid de Goldenberg Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Argent, a bend sinister Azure charged with three crescents Or, their horns towards the sinister chief corner.

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Goldstein Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Gules, three fleurs-de-lis Argent issuing from the two upper corners and the base, their heads meeting at the centre.

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Goldstein called von Böltzig Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Per pale: first, Gules, three fleurs-de-lis Argent issuing respectively from the two chief corners and the base, their tips meeting at the centre, with a star Argent at the centre; second, Gules, a flying fish Argent bendwise with wings lowered.

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Goldstein-Berge Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, three fleurs-de-lis Argent issuing respectively from the two chief corners and the base, their tips meeting at the centre, with an inescutcheon Argent at the centre charged with a star Gules; second and third, Gules, a flying fish Argent bendwise with wings lowered. A compartment grafted into the base is per fess: above, Argent, a demi-ibex Gules issuing from the division; below, Azure plain. Overall, an inescutcheon barry of eight Or and Azure.

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Göler von Ravensburg (Barons) Coat of Arms

Baden.
Argent, a raven Sable rising from a mound Vert, crowned and beaked Or.

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Gölgl Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Per fess Sable and Or, overall a garden lily with three flowers all proper, issuing from a mound Vert in base.

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Goll Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first, Gules, a demi-eagle Or issuing from the vertical division; second, Argent, a tree on a ground Vert; third, Or, an angel affronty with wings Argent, clothed Gules and girdled Azure, standing on a ground Vert, the body's tincture unspecified; fourth, Azure, three balls Or.

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Gollen Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first, Or, a raven rising and reversed Sable; second, Argent, a lion's head Or issuing from the horizontal division; third, Argent, three metal cramps Or, each bendwise and arranged in bend sinister; fourth, Or, three acorns without leaves proper, one above two, stalks downwards. Grafted into the base, Gules, a Latin cross Or planted in a mound Vert.

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Gollenhofer Coat of Arms

Augsburg, Bavaria, Swabia.
Gules, a woman's bust with flowing hair, crowned Or and clothed Azure, between three stars Argent; the bust and hair's tinctures are unspecified.

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Goller auf Kollersried Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Sable, a lion Or standing on a mound Vert and holding between its paws three goblet lids Or, one above another.

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Golling Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Argent, a rose Azure stalked and leaved Vert; two curved side compartments Azure, formed by lines from the centre of chief to the base corners, each charged with a white rose stalked and leaved Vert.

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Gollnhüter Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Sable, a chess rook Or with two horse heads back to back.

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Göllnitz Coat of Arms

Swabia, Brandenburg.
Gules, two spades Argent in saltire, their blades shaped like linden leaves.

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Göltinger Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Tierced in bend gules, argent and sable.

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Göltling Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Sable, three garden lilies Argent stalked and leaved Vert, standing on a mound Argent.

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Goltstein (van) Coat of Arms

Holland, Rhine Province.
Barry of eight or and azure.

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Goltstein (von) Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Barry of eight or and azure.

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Goltz (von der) de Clausdorf Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per pale: first, Argent, a wall Gules with four battlements, masoned Argent, with a lion Or issuing from the wall at the knees and holding an annulet Or between its paws; second, Azure, a chevron between three fleurs-de-lis Or. A bordure Or.

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Prussia.
Per pale: first, argent a wall gules of four battlements masoned argent, a lion or issuing from the wall from the knees upward and holding an annulet or between its paws; second, azure a chevron or between three fleurs-de-lis or. A bordure or surrounds the shield.

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Goltz (von der) de Heinrichsdorf Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per pale: first, Argent, a wall Gules with three battlements, masoned Argent, with a lion Or issuing from the wall at the knees and holding an annulet Or between its paws; second, Azure, a chevron between three fleurs-de-lis Or. A bordure Azure. Overall, an inescutcheon Argent crowned Or, charged with the Prussian eagle: an eagle Sable beaked and membered Or, with a royal crown above its head, semicircular bands ending in trefoils Or on its wings and the crowned intertwined letters F R Or on its breast; here the eagle also holds an orb and sceptre, their tinctures unspecified.

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Golze Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Or, a demi-stag proper issuing from a mound of three hills Vert; on a chief Azure, two trefoils Or growing from one stem.

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Gondelsheim Coat of Arms

Baden.
Per fess: above, Or, a pale Gules; below, Azure, a harp Argent bendwise sinister with its strings uppermost.

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Gonschen Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Argent, a fess gules.

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Gontard Coat of Arms

Frankfurt, Hesse.
Per fess: above, Or, a door hinge Sable fesswise; below, Azure, a sun Or setting behind a mountain of three hills Or.

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Rhine Province.
Per bend: first, Sable, a full moon Or; second, Argent, three door hinges Sable, each fesswise and arranged in pale. Overall, a bend Gules charged with three stars Argent.

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Göpmer Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per bend: first, Argent, a man's bust in profile, clothed Purpure and wearing a pointed cap Purpure turned up Argent; second, Purpure, a single stag's antler Argent bendwise. The bust's flesh tincture is unspecified.

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Gopp Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Per fess: above, Or, a cock Sable combed Gules; below, Sable, three pales Or.

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Gorcken Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Or, a sea-griffin per fess Sable and Gules.

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Gordeck Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, a piece of arm armour ending in a gauntlet, all Sable, bendwise with the gauntlet uppermost.

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Gordon (von) Coat of Arms

Pomerania, Brandenburg, Silesia.
Azure, three boars' heads or.

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Gordon de Huntley Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Azure, a fess chequy Argent and Sable between three boar heads Or; a bordure Or.

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Görek Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Azure, a saltire Argent with forked ends.

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Göring Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first, Or, an eagle reversed Sable crowned Or, holding a fleur-de-lis Argent in its dexter talon and a ring Or in its sinister talon; second, Azure, a lion Or crowned Or holding a trefoil Vert; third, Gules, a fleur-de-lis Argent supported by a mound Vert; fourth, barry of four Or, Gules, Argent and Sable.

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Saxony.
Per bend: first, Sable, a lion Or holding a stem bearing three trefoils Vert, one above two; second, bendy of four Or, Gules, Argent and Sable.

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Gorissen Coat of Arms

Hamburg.
Quarterly: first, Or, a castle Gules surmounted by two turrets, the sinister one taller, with door and windows Sable, standing on an isolated ground Vert; second, Azure, two olive branches Argent in saltire; third, per pale Argent and Gules, overall a lion Or armed and langued Argent; fourth, Argent, a rock Sable issuing from the sinister side.

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Göritz Coat of Arms

Bavaria, Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a demi-eagle Sable issuing from the vertical division; second and third, Gules, a bend Argent charged with a greyhound courant proper.

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Görlitz Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Gules, a bunch of grapes bearing a single vine leaf Vert, between two pruning knives back to back Argent with handles Or; the grapes' tincture is unspecified.

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Gorne Coat of Arms

Brandenburg.
Argent, a vine-dresser's pruning knife proper fesswise between three trefoils Vert.

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Görschen Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Per bend sinister argent and azure, overall a key or in bend.

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Gortabat Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a demi-ibex Sable; second and third, bendy sinister Argent and Azure. Overall, an inescutcheon Gules charged with a cross pattée couped Argent.

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Görtz-Wrisberg (Barons) Coat of Arms

Hanover.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a pheasant proper on a mound Vert; second and third, Argent, two bends sinister Sable, each embattled with three battlements.

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Görtzke Coat of Arms

Brandenburg.
Argent, an eagle's head and neck surmounted by three ostrich feathers, all proper.

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Göschl Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Per fess Or and Sable, overall a wild man of natural flesh colour crowned with ivy and girdled with a wreath Or and Sable, standing on a mound Or and holding a trefoil Vert by its stalk.

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Gosen Coat of Arms

Hesse, Bavaria; trefoil version.
Argent, a bend Gules charged with three trefoils Or, aligned with the bend and with stalks downwards.

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Hesse, Bavaria; variant with linden leaves.
Argent, a bend Gules charged with three linden leaves Or, aligned with the bend and with stalks downwards.

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Göser de Lindenberg Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Sable, a griffin Or supporting in its paws a fired grenade proper, the griffin in the first quarter reversed; second and third, Argent, a tree on a ground Vert.

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Gosk et Gosk-Podjarski Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Azure, a demi-lion Or armed and langued Gules issuing from an embattled wall Argent masoned Sable across the lower part of the shield.

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Goss Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Or, a bend lozengy Gules and Argent in three rows.

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Gössel Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Quarterly: first, Argent, a falcon reversed proper perched on a dry branch proper bendwise sinister; second, Azure, an ear of corn Or bendwise; third, Gules, a mallet proper palewise with an iron head; fourth, Argent, a bee proper. Overall, an inescutcheon Azure charged with a star Argent.

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Gossenbrot Coat of Arms

Augsburg, Bavaria, Swabia.
Azure, a bearded man's bust clothed Gules with buttons Or and wearing a cap Gules; the flesh and beard's tinctures are unspecified.

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Gössl Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, per fess Or and Sable; second and third, per bend sinister Argent and Gules, two roses counterchanged.

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Gosslar Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Divided by one horizontal and two vertical lines into six quarters: first, third and fifth, Azure, a star Or; second, fourth and sixth, Or, a chief Gules with a lower edge of three triangular points. Over all six quarters, a chief Azure charged with a rising sun Or.

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Gossler Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first, chequy Argent and Gules; second, Or, a cap Sable turned up Ermine; third, Argent, an eagle Sable beaked and membered Gules, crowned Or; fourth, Azure, a Roman lictor's bundle of rods with its axe proper. Overall, an inescutcheon Argent charged with three roses Gules seeded Or, one above two.

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Prussia.
Quarterly: first, chequy of sixteen squares Argent and Azure; second, Or, an electoral crown proper; third, Argent, an eagle Sable crowned Or; fourth, Azure, a Roman lictor's bundle of rods proper with an axe Argent. Overall, an inescutcheon Argent charged with three roses Gules.

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Gossnitz Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Tierced in fess gules, argent and sable.

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Gossow Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, a sword Argent bendwise sinister and a writing quill Argent bendwise, the nib downwards, crossed in saltire; second and third, Argent, a single wing of the Prussian eagle, Sable with a curved band ending in a trefoil Or. A bordure Or.

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Gossow-Reinhart Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, three ploughshares Argent, one above another, their points directed towards the dexter side.

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Gösswein Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Bendy of four or and sable.

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Gotha Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per pale: first, Gules, a lion reversed Or; second, Azure, three ears of corn with leaves Or growing from one root.

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Gotschalkowski, Goczalckowski or Gottschalksdorf Coat of Arms

Poland, Silesia.
Gules, a bend wavy couped Argent, surmounted at its dexter chief end by a small cross Or.

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Gotsman Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Or, a demi-ibex Sable.

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Gottardi Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, a lion Argent holding a laurel wreath Vert in its dexter forepaw and supporting a double cup Or in its sinister forepaw, standing on a mound Azure.

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Gottberg Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Or, a bend Gules charged with an arm in armour proper holding a sabre Argent; the bend between two ragged staffs proper.

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Gotte Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Or, four fesses sable, overall an escutcheon gules charged with two swords argent in saltire garnished or between four birds or.

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Gotter Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Sable, two crescents back to back Or between six stars Or, three in a row in chief, one on either side and one in base.

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Gotter (Counts) Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a chevron Or; second and third, Sable, two crescents back to back Or between six stars Or, three in a row in chief, one on either side and one in base. A bordure Or. Overall, an inescutcheon Argent crowned Or, charged with the Prussian eagle: an eagle Sable beaked and membered Or, with a royal crown above its head and semicircular bands ending in trefoils Or on its wings; here it holds a sceptre and orb, their tinctures unspecified, and bears the letters F W R Or on its breast beneath a royal crown Or.

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Gottfart Coat of Arms

Thuringia.
Azure, an eight-pointed star Or surrounded by eight four-pointed stars Or, placed between the rays of the central star.

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Gotthard Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Argent, a pelican with its young in its nest, all proper.

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Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, a lion Argent holding a lid Or in its dexter forepaw above a cup Or supported in its sinister forepaw; second and third, Or, an eagle Sable with wings Azure.

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Gotthard von Otterskirchen und Hôflein Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess: above, Or, a fess Azure charged with a star Or; below, Argent, a pale Gules.

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Göttlich Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Azure, a garb or.

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Göttling Coat of Arms

Rothenburg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Gules, a tower proper standing on a mound Argent between two stars Or.

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Gottschalek Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a crane Gules holding its vigilance stone Or; second, Azure, four bezants Or, two and two; third, Azure, three bezants Or, two and one.

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Gottschalk Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Argent, three pomegranates Or split open Gules.

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Gottschall Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Gules, a bend wavy couped Argent, surmounted at its dexter chief end by a small cross Or.

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Gottschlig d'Ehrenburg Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, an eagle Sable charged on its breast with an eye within a radiant triangle Or; second and third, Azure, an embattled wall Argent masoned Sable with an opening Argent, supporting a lion passant Or.

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Gottsfelden Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Argent, an open pair of compasses reversed Gules, fitted with a quadrant turned towards sinister.

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Götz Coat of Arms

Baden.
Argent, a rock with several steep summits Azure rising from water proper in base.

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Franconia.
Gules, a man of natural flesh colour girdled with a cloth Or and grasping a thunderbolt proper in his dexter hand.

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Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, an eagle Sable, that in the first quarter reversed; second and third, Argent, an apple tree proper on a ground Vert, its trunk between two lizards Vert palewise, with a lion passant Gules above the tree.

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Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per fess: above, Argent, a demi-man in profile clothed Gules and wearing a pointed cap Gules, shooting an arrow from his bow, the flesh, bow and arrow's tinctures unspecified; below, Gules, a saltire wavy Argent between four stars Argent.

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Saxony, Silesia.
Per pale: first, Gules, an eagle's leg reversed Argent; second, Or, a ragged staff Sable fesswise in base, sprouting towards chief two linden leaves Vert on long stalks.

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Götz de Schwanenfliess Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Quarterly: first, Argent, a demi-eagle Sable beaked, membered and crowned Or, issuing from the vertical division; second, Gules, a swan Argent crowned Or, beaked and membered Sable, walking on a ground Vert and holding a branch Vert in its dexter foot; third, Gules, three greyhounds courant and reversed Sable, collared Or; fourth, Argent, a lion Or crowned Or.

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Götze Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Gules, a target shield Argent with straps Argent, charged with an oval escutcheon Argent surmounted by a royal crown Or and itself charged with an eagle Sable; on the target shield beside the escutcheon, six flags, the three on the dexter side Azure, Argent and Gules, and those on the sinister side Gules, Argent and Azure.

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Saxony.
Per bend: first, Gules, a demi-lion reversed Argent issuing from the division; second, Or, a bend Gules.

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Götzen Coat of Arms

Brandenburg, Silesia, Pomerania; earlier arms, staff bendwise.
Or, a ragged staff proper bendwise, with three leaves, one above and two below.

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Brandenburg, Silesia, Pomerania; earlier arms, staff bendwise sinister.
Or, a ragged staff proper bendwise sinister, with three leaves, one above and two below.

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Brandenburg, Silesia, Pomerania; modern arms.
Per pale: first, Gules, an eagle's leg reversed Argent with claws Or and talon downwards; second, Or, a tree trunk proper fesswise, sprouting two leaves Vert upwards.

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Prussia.
Per pale Sable and Or, overall a ragged linden staff Vert bearing two leaves Vert.

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Silesia.
Quarterly: first, Azure, a horse passant Argent bridled and caparisoned Gules; second, Argent, a church proper roofed Gules on a ground Vert; third, Argent, a similar church surrounded by bastions; fourth, Azure, a running soldier clothed Gules, wearing a grenadier's cap and holding a musket in his dexter hand, the soldier's flesh, cap and musket's tinctures unspecified. A bordure Or. Overall, an inescutcheon per pale Azure and Or, bordered Or, charged with a ragged staff proper fesswise across the division, sprouting two linden leaves Vert towards chief, one on each half.

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Götzendorf-Grabowski Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Gules, a sword argent garnished or, overall a crescent argent.

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Gotzlawski Coat of Arms

Poland, Prussia.
Per fess: above, Argent, a demi-eagle Sable beaked Or; below, Gules, three roses Argent.

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Goue Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per pale: first, Argent, a wild man of natural flesh colour girdled and crowned with ivy, holding a club resting on a ground Vert; second, Vert, three roses Or. The club's tincture is unspecified.

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Gowinski Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Gules, a demi-stag Or issuing from the convex back of a crescent reversed Or, the crescent bendwise sinister in the sinister base corner; a star Or between the stag's antlers.

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Gr surnames

Gra Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Azure, a millrind between a sun on the dexter side and a crescent turned towards dexter with a face on the sinister side, all Argent.

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Graaff (de) Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, a spade Argent with blade uppermost; second and third, Azure, a swan Argent.

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Grabenbauer Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess Sable and Gules, overall a parrot Vert collared Gules perched on a hunting horn Sable with mouthpiece and bands Or.

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Graberg Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, a steep rock proper covered with moss, its summit enveloped in clouds; on a chief Purpure, a royal crown Or.

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Grabinstad Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: above, Sable, a star Or; below, Or plain.

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Grabisch Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Or, an eagle Azure beaked and membered Gules, charged on its breast with a crescent Sable.

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Grabmann Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Argent, a cross flory sable.

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Grabmayr Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Sable, a demi-man in profile clothed Or, wearing a mantle Sable edged Or and a wreath Sable, Or and Argent, his head surmounted by four ostrich feathers Or, Gules, Sable and Argent; the flesh tincture is unspecified.

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Grabner Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Gules, two spades Argent in saltire with blades uppermost.

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Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per pale engrailed Sable and Argent.

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Grabow Coat of Arms

Holstein.
Argent, on a fess vert three roses gules.

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Pomerania.
Azure, a fess chequy Gules and Or in three rows, with a demi-lion Or crowned Or issuing from the fess in chief.

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Pomerania, Mecklenburg.
Argent, on a fess gules three stars or.

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Grabowski Coat of Arms

Poland, Prussia.
Quarterly: first, Azure, a crescent reversed surmounted by a cross crosslet and with a star in base, all Or; second, Gules, three anchors Argent; third, Azure, six fleurs-de-lis Argent, three and three; fourth, Gules, a scarf Argent bent into a circle with its ends knotted in saltire. Overall, an inescutcheon Azure charged with a crescent Or pierced by a sword Argent hilted Or palewise, between three stars Or, one above two.

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Prussia.
Azure, a stag springing argent on a terrace vert.

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Prussia.
Azure, an arrow Argent feathered Gules bendwise sinister with its point downwards, surmounted by a horseshoe Argent. A bordure Or.

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Prussia.
Gules, an axe Argent hafted proper; a bordure Or studded Argent.

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Grabs de Haugsdorf Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Quarterly: first, Or, a serpent Vert bendwise; second, Gules, seven stars Or, four and three; third, Azure, a dove Argent beaked and membered Gules standing on an isolated ground Vert; fourth, Vert plain.

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Gracht (van der) Coat of Arms

Antwerp, Rhine Province.
Argent, a chevron Gules between three martlets Sable.

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Graczkowski Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per bend sinister vert and sable, overall a bend sinister indented argent.

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Gradl d'Ehrnthal Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly Or and Gules, each Or quarter charged with a demi-eagle Sable issuing from the vertical division; overall a bend sinister Argent charged with two fleurs-de-lis Azure each palewise. Overall, an inescutcheon Azure charged with a crane rising Argent on a mound Vert.

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Gradl de Boden Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Gules, two fish skeletons Argent in saltire.

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Gradl Edle von Bertolshofen Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a cock Sable standing on a mound Vert, that in the first quarter reversed; second and third, Vert, a squirrel sejant proper with its paws extended, that in the third quarter reversed.

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Graefe Coat of Arms

Germany.
Or, three unicorn heads and necks Sable.

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Prussia.
Per pale: first, Azure, a demi-eagle Argent issuing from the division; second, Azure, two circles of stars Or, one above the other.

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Graes Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Quarterly sable and argent.

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Graeve Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a knight in profile in full armour, supporting a falcon proper on his wrist and standing on a ground Vert, the figures in the first quarter reversed, the armour's tincture unspecified; second, Azure, a sinister arm in armour holding a sword bendwise sinister, all Argent; third, Azure, a dexter arm in armour holding a sword bendwise, all Argent. Overall, an inescutcheon Argent charged with the Prussian eagle: an eagle Sable beaked and membered Or, with a royal crown above its head, semicircular bands ending in trefoils Or on its wings and the crowned intertwined letters F R Or on its breast.

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Silesia.
Quarterly: first, Argent, the Prussian eagle, an eagle Sable beaked and membered Or, with a royal crown above its head, semicircular bands ending in trefoils Or on its wings and the crowned intertwined letters F R Or on its breast; second, Azure, two swords Argent hilted Or in saltire; third, Azure, a dexter arm in armour proper with a hand of natural flesh colour holding a sword Argent hilted Or; fourth, Or, a stag springing proper issuing from a grove Vert which extends from the sinister side. A bordure Or. Overall, an inescutcheon Azure bordered Or and charged with a wheel Argent.

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Graevemeyer Coat of Arms

Hanover.
Argent, a bunch of grapes Azure stalked and leaved Vert, the stalk uppermost.

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Graf Coat of Arms

Nördlingen, Bavaria, Swabia.
Per fess Or and Sable, three fusils conjoined across the shield and touching its sides, counterchanged.

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Graf de Schernberg Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, a swan's head and neck Argent issuing from a crown Or; second and third, Gules, a flared triangle Argent.

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Graf or Graff Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per fess: above, Argent, a star Or; below, Or, three lozenges Azure conjoined.

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Graf zu Heringnohe Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Argent, a bend Azure charged with a lion Or supporting a fleur-de-lis Argent; the bend between two fleurs-de-lis Azure.

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Gräfendorif Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Azure, an ibex rampant argent langued, unguled and horned gules.

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Grafenstein [formerly Graf] Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Gules, a bend Or charged with a lion Sable supporting a die Argent in its paws; the bend between two fleurs-de-lis Argent.

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Graff Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Gules, a fleur-de-lis argent.

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Rothenburg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Sable, three roses argent.

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Graff de Westheim Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, per fess, above Or plain, below Argent with twelve billets Sable lying horizontally, four, four and four; second and third, per fess engrailed Gules and Argent.

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Graffen Coat of Arms

Hamburg.
Or, a stag springing proper with a palm tree Vert on its sinister side, both supported by a ground Vert.

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Grafschaft Coat of Arms

Westphalia; three-pale version.
Or, three pales Gules.

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Westphalia; two-pale version.
Or, two pales Gules.

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Grafschit Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Sable, a fess Argent embattled on both edges with the battlements alternating.

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Graft Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first, Or, a griffin Sable holding a sword proper; second and third, Gules with curved side compartments Argent formed by lines from the centre of chief to the base corners, three roses counterchanged; fourth, Azure, a swan Argent crowned Or on a mound Vert, its wings raised and its breast pierced by an arrow proper bendwise sinister with point uppermost.

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Grailndorf Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Azure, on a bend argent between two lions rampant or three fleurs-de-lis of the field in bend.

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Graimberg (Counts) Coat of Arms

Baden.
Azure, three bezants Or.

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Grainger-Ty'wysog Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, a fess Or charged with two portcullises Gules chained Sable; between two pomegranates Or, one in chief and one in base.

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Gralath Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly in saltire Or and Azure, four fleurs-de-lis counterchanged. A bordure Or.

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Graleitner Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: first, sable, a lion passant or; second, barry of four or and sable.

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Gramberger d'Ehrenberg Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Argent, a chevron with curved sides Gules between two stars Azure in chief and a palm tree proper on a mound of three hills Vert in base.

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Grambow Coat of Arms

Mecklenburg, Denmark.
Argent, a boar's head sable.

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Pomerania.
Argent, a tree eradicated Vert with five leaves.

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Grammlich Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Per fess Or and Vert, overall a fess Gules charged with a crescent Or between two stars Or; in the upper field an eagle's leg Gules feathered Sable, the talon downwards grasping two laurel wreaths Vert joined like a horizontal figure eight; in the lower field a demi-lion Argent armed and langued Or brandishing a sword and issuing from a gabion Or, the sword's tincture unspecified.

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Grand Ry (von) Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Argent, a balance beam Sable in equilibrium, with two lions rampant and facing each other Gules supported on the beam's ends and holding up its central tongue; in base a sea Azure.

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Graner Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per fess: above, Argent, three ears of corn with leaves Or issuing from a mound Gules; below, Sable, a lion passant Or.

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Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a pennon Gules attached to a tilting lance Argent bendwise; second and third, Argent, a lion Or, that in the third quarter reversed.

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Granetel Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per fess Argent and Sable, three stars counterchanged.

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Granleuter Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: above, Sable, a lion passant Or; below, Or, a fess Sable.

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Granner Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Or, a lion rampant sable, a bordure gules.

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Gransey d'Uttendorf Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per bend Argent and Gules, a bend counterchanged.

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Gränsing Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Argent, three boars' heads gules.

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Grantz Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Per bend with a rectangular projection in the dividing line: first, Sable, a lion Or crowned with foliage Vert and holding a sword Argent; second, bendy of four Argent and Gules.

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Grapen de Carwitz Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Argent, three cauldrons or.

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Grapen de Dorfhagen Coat of Arms

Pomerania, Denmark.
Argent, three cauldrons sable.

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Grappendorf Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Or, a cauldron sable.

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Gräsel Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Gules, a sheep rampant argent.

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Graselfing Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, a bordure argent.

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Grasemundt Coat of Arms

Brandenburg.
Gules, a bend Or charged with three fish proper each palewise.

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Graser Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria.
Gules, a sickle argent hafted or between three roses argent.

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Gräser Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Argent, a garb vert banded gules.

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Swabia.
Argent, a sheaf Vert tied Gules.

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Gräsman Coat of Arms

Germany.
Or, a demi-old man clothed Sable issuing from a mound Vert and supporting a fleur-de-lis Azure in his dexter hand; the flesh tincture is unspecified.

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Grass Coat of Arms

Hesse, Prussia.
Quarterly: first, Argent, a heron reversed proper; second and third, Argent, three bends sinister Gules; fourth, Argent, a rose Gules.

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Prussia.
Per fess: above, Argent, a hand of natural flesh colour upright in the gesture of taking an oath, with sleeve Azure and cuff Gules; below, Azure, an escutcheon Argent charged with two knightly crosses Gules, their precise form unspecified in the entry.

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Grässe Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, ten stars Gules arranged one, two, three and four.

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Grassenburg Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Gules, a griffin argent.

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Grasshof Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Per fess: above, Argent, a single wing Sable fesswise; below, Gules, three bends Or.

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Grasshoff Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Gules masoned Sable, three bends sinister Or overall; on a chief Argent supported by a narrow bar Gules, a single wing Sable fesswise. A bordure Or.

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Grässl Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Gules, a sheep rampant argent.

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Grassmüller Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Azure, a millrind between a sun on the dexter side and a crescent turned towards dexter with a face on the sinister side, all Argent.

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Grathwol Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Sable, a griffin Or; second and third, Gules, a Moor walking and supporting a star Or in his dexter hand, the figure's tincture unspecified.

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Grätzel de Grätz Coat of Arms

Hanover.
Per fess: above, Azure, a lion's head Or issuing from a crown Or; below, Azure, a chevron Argent between three roundels Argent. Overall, a fess Or across the division.

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Grauenstein Coat of Arms

Germany.
Or, a squirrel gules.

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Graumann Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per fess: above, Or, a demi-wild man of natural flesh colour girdled and crowned with ivy, issuing from the division and holding a club resting on his shoulder, the club's tincture unspecified; below, Argent, three roses Gules stalked and leaved Vert on a ground Vert. A bordure Or.

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Grauvogl (Edle von) Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a bird rising proper on a mound Vert; second and third, Argent, a single wing Sable, that in the third quarter reversed.

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Grave Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Argent, five roses Gules, three and two.

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Rhine Province.
Argent, five roses gules, three and two.

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Grävenitz Coat of Arms

Mecklenburg.
Argent, a ragged oak staff Gules bendwise, bearing three leaves Vert, two above and one below.

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Württemberg.
Quarterly: first, per bend, the upper division lozengy bendwise Sable and Or, the lower division lozengy bendwise Gules and Argent; second and third, per fess, above Azure a demi-lion Or crowned Or, armed and langued Gules, that in the third quarter reversed, below Or a fess Sable; fourth, per bend, the upper division lozengy bendwise Gules and Argent, the lower division lozengy bendwise Sable and Or. Overall, an inescutcheon Argent charged with a ragged oak staff proper bendwise, bearing three leaves Vert, two above and one below.

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Gravenreuth Coat of Arms

Bavaria; Counts, 1825.
Azure, a unicorn Argent issuing from a rocky ground Argent extending from the sinister base corner.

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Grawe Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: above, Argent, a demi-lion Gules issuing from the division; below, Or, three ox heads Gules. Overall, a river proper fesswise across the division.

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Grawe (Edle von) Coat of Arms

Mecklenburg.
Argent, two triangular points Gules issuing from the sinister side.

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Grawerdt Coat of Arms

East Frisia.
Gules, a star Or in dexter chief, a rose Argent seeded and barbed Or in sinister chief, and a fleur-de-lis Or in base.

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Grawert Coat of Arms

Lübeck.
Gules, an oak trunk couped and eradicated Vert palewise, sprouting two leaves Or, one on either side; in chief two roses Or.

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Grazia (Comtes d'Antonioli de Grazia) Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Per pale: first, per fess Or and Argent, a fess Vert across the horizontal division; second, Vert plain. Overall, a pale Or across the vertical division.

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Grechtler (Barons) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a single wing Sable; second, Azure, a dove Argent holding an olive branch Vert in its beak and standing on a mound Vert; third, Azure, a raven Sable collared Argent standing on a hill Argent. Overall, an inescutcheon Gules charged with a chevron Or.

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Greck de Kochendorf (Barons) Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Per fess or and azure.

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Greck or Gregg Coat of Arms

Ulm, Württemberg, Swabia.
Per fess or and azure.

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Greefkes Coat of Arms

East Frisia.
Or, a Latin cross Sable entwined by a serpent Vert.

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Green Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per pale: first, Argent, Fortune proper standing on a ball, the ball's tincture unspecified; second, Azure, three stags springing Or.

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Grefen Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Argent, a saltire or.

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Grefendorf Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Azure, an ibex rampant argent.

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Greff Coat of Arms

Germany.
Argent, an apple tree Vert fructed Or, passing between two narrow bars Azure and standing on a ground Vert.

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Greffen Coat of Arms

Germany.
Tierced in bend Argent, Sable and Gules, the middle division charged with a griffin passant Or supporting a star Or in its dexter forepaw.

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Greffeneck Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, an ibex rampant argent.

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Greffenreuter Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per fess Argent and chequy Azure and Argent; overall a fess Gules across the division.

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Grefrath Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Azure, three eagle legs Or with talons downwards.

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Gregersdorf Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Gules, a ram rampant argent.

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Gregorowicz Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Azure, a horseshoe Argent with its ends downwards, enclosing a small cross pattée Argent.

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Gregory Coat of Arms

Saxony, Silesia.
Sable, a crane Argent beaked and membered Gules, standing on a mound Vert and holding its vigilance stone Or.

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Greif Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Sable, a griffin crowned and holding a sword, all Or.

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Greifen Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Or, a griffin sable.

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Greifenberg Coat of Arms

Brandenburg.
Argent, a buffalo's head caboshed Gules with a nose ring Or.

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Greifenstein Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Or, four oak leaves Vert issuing from the corners of the shield.

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Greiff de Greiffenburg Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per bend sinister Argent and Azure, two griffins counterchanged, the first reversed, each supporting a fleur-de-lis Or in its paws.

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Greiff de Greiffenstein Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Sable, a griffin or.

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Greiffencranz Coat of Arms

East Frisia.
Per pale: first, Azure, a chevron Or with a leafy wreath Argent in base; second, Or, a griffin Sable.

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Greiffenegg Coat of Arms

Baden.
Per pale Azure and Sable, overall a pale Argent across the division; on the Azure three eight-pointed stars Or in pale, and on the Sable a griffin Or holding in its paws an arrow Sable which lies on the pale. Overall, an inescutcheon Or charged with an eagle Sable beaked and membered Gules, crowned Or.

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Greiffenheim Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per pale: first, Argent, a griffin Gules beaked Or; second, Azure, a fess abased Argent supporting a tower Argent with door and windows Sable.

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Greiffenklau (von) zu Vollraths Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Per fess argent and azure, overall an escarbuncle or; second and third, sable, a bend sinister argent.

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Greiffenpfeil [formerly Hoffmann de Greiffenpfeil] Coat of Arms

Austria, Prussia.
Quarterly: first, Gules, a lion reversed Argent crowned Or; second, Azure, a sinister arm in armour proper with a hand of natural flesh colour supporting a fired bomb proper, between two stars Or, one in sinister chief and one in dexter base; third, Azure, three rocks Argent in a row on a ground Vert; fourth, Gules, three arrows Or, two in saltire with points uppermost and the third palewise overall with point downwards, the bundle tied Azure. Overall, a fess Argent. Over all, an inescutcheon Or crowned Or, charged with an eagle Sable crowned Or and bearing the letter L Or on its breast.

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Greim Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, a lion Or crowned Or holding between its paws a knotted snake Argent palewise.

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Greimolt Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Argent, Hercules brandishing his club and fighting Cerberus rampant and reversed, all proper.

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Greimolt de Holzhausen Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Gules, a gabled house-front argent.

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Grein Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Argent, three spade blades without handles Gules.

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Greiner Coat of Arms

Augsburg, Bavaria, Swabia.
Sable, a walking man clothed in a tunic Or, wearing a hat Or surmounted by cock feathers and a sabre at his hip, shooting an arrow Or from a bow Gules; the flesh, feathers and sabre's tinctures are unspecified.

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Bavaria.
Azure, a bend or.

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Bavaria.
Gules, a bend wavy argent.

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Germany.
Gules, a Turk in profile wearing a coat Azure, breeches Gules, a mantle striped Argent and Azure, shoes Or and a turban proper surmounted by an aigrette, shooting an arrow Or from a bow Or, standing on a ground Vert; the flesh and aigrette's tinctures are unspecified.

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Greis Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Argent, an old man clothed Azure, wearing an Albanian cap Sable, breeches Or and boots Sable, holding in his dexter hand three heraldic fleurs-de-lis Argent on stalks Argent; the flesh tincture is unspecified.

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Frankfurt, Hesse.
Azure, an old man clothed Argent leaning on a staff; the flesh and staff's tinctures are unspecified.

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Greissingen Coat of Arms

Franconia, Prussia.
Or, a boar's head and neck Gules.

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Grell Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Gules, two tilting lances Argent in saltire between two stars Or, one in chief and one in base.

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Grembs Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, a lion Or standing on a mound Vert; second, Or, a demi-chamois Sable; third, lozengy fesswise Argent and Gules.

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Grenade (de) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess Azure and Argent, the Azure charged with a pomegranate Or stalked and leaved Vert, the stalk downwards; overall a fess Gules charged with three cinquefoils Argent.

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Grensau Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, three lozenges conjoined gules in fess.

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Grensing Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Argent, three boars' heads gules.

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Grenus Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, a chevron with curved sides Or between two lions facing each other Argent in chief and a heart Argent in base, from which issue three flowers with stalks Azure.

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Grenzing Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a chamois rampant Argent standing on a rocky ground of three summits Or, that in the first quarter reversed; second and third, Argent, a demi-eagle Gules issuing from a base Sable.

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Gressenich Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Argent, five millrinds sable, three and two.

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Gretz Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per fess: above, Or, two eagle heads Sable side by side; below, per pale, dexter Argent three apples Or stalked Vert with stalks towards sinister, sinister Argent three bars Gules.

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Greul de Greulsberg Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Argent, six vair bells Azure, three, two and one; a chief Gules.

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Greulich Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per pale: first, Gules, a fish Azure palewise; second, Argent, four hats Gules, one, two and one.

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Greussen or Greyssen Coat of Arms

Silesia; alternative version.
Argent, a triangular projection of one whole point and one half-point Gules issuing from the sinister side.

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Silesia; two-point version.
Argent, two triangular points Gules issuing from the sinister side.

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Greuzard de Damadieu Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, a chevron Or between a roundel Argent at the centre of chief and a lion Or crowned Or in base.

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Greve (von) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a demi-eagle Argent issuing from the vertical division; second and third, Azure, two chevrons Argent. At the centre, overall, a wheel of six spokes Argent.

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Grevenbroch Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess: above, Gules, a fleece suspended from a ribbon issuing from both sides, all Or, beneath a five-pointed star Argent; below, Azure, a chevron Argent with one battlement projecting from the lower edge of each arm.

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Grevinck or Greving Coat of Arms

Brabant, Holland, East Frisia, Groningen, Overijssel.
Gules, five bezants Or, two, one and two.

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Grezmiller Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first, Argent, the dexter half of a wheel Gules; second and third, Azure, a lion Or, that in the third quarter reversed; fourth, Argent, the sinister half of a wheel Gules.

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Gribel de Kalekreut Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Sable, two mortar rakes Argent in saltire.

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Grien Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Argent, three square iron blades Gules with handles Gules.

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Grienauer Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a lion Gules brandishing a staff Gules; second and third, Argent, a caduceus Gules.

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Grienenstein Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Barry argent and azure.

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Griennagel Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, a bend Argent, with in chief a stork holding a serpent in its beak and standing on a mound, all proper, and in base a sinister arm in armour issuing from the bend, with a hand of natural flesh colour holding a dagger palewise, the armour and dagger's tinctures unspecified; second and third, Azure, a lion Or crowned Or. Overall, an inescutcheon Or charged with a nail Vert, point downwards.

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Griesinger Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Argent, two arrows Or tipped Argent in saltire, with a heart Gules over their crossing point.

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Griessenbeck Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess or and sable, overall a griffin gules.

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Griessenbeck auf Griessenbach Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a cock Sable beaked, combed and wattled Gules standing on a mound Vert; second and third, Gules, a fess Argent charged with a rose Gules. Overall, an inescutcheon per fess Or and Sable, charged with a griffin Gules across the division.

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Griessenbeck von Griessenbach zu Hahnreith Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a griffin Gules, that in the first quarter reversed; second and third, Or, a cock Sable beaked Or, combed and wattled Gules, standing on a mound proper, that in the third quarter reversed.

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Griessheim Coat of Arms

Saxony, Brunswick.
Or, a fess sable, in chief two roses of the same.

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Griessingen Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Sable, a bend divided per bend Argent and Gules.

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Griessmair d'Inkofen Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Or, a demi-man clothed Azure with a collar Argent, wearing a cap Azure turned up Argent and holding in his extended dexter hand the dexter half of a mill wheel Sable; the flesh tincture is unspecified.

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Griffen Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Or, a griffin gules.

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Griften Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Per pale: first, Sable, a fess Argent; second, Or plain.

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Grimholtz Coat of Arms

Hamburg.
Per pale: first, Azure, a fess Gules with a demi-woman of natural flesh colour issuing from the fess in chief; second, Gules, two half-roses Argent issuing from the division, one above the other.

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Grimm Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, three stars Argent; second and third, Argent, a cock Sable with one foot raised, combed and wattled Gules, standing on a ground Vert.

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Grimme (Edle von) Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Gules, a lion Or; a bordure Argent.

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Grimmeisen Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess: above, Or, two oak branches Vert palewise, each bearing five leaves; below, Gules, a seven-pointed star Or.

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Grimmel Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, an escallop Argent.

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Grimmen Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Gules, a stag's head and neck proper issuing from a crown Or.

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Grimmenstein (Barons) Coat of Arms

Austria, Switzerland, Prussia.
Argent semy of linden leaves Vert with stalks uppermost, a lion Gules overall.

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Grinigi Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Per bend: first, or, a hedgehog proper; second, gules.

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Griplaw Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Gules, two keys addorsed argent.

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Gripswald Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Argent, a circular wreath Gules ornamented with four linden leaves Gules, one, two and one.

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Gristow Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Argent, an ox head caboshed Sable surmounted by a pair of wings Sable.

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Gritzner Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Sable, two salmon addorsed argent.

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Gröben (von der) Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per pale: first, Azure, a pike Argent; second, Argent, an eagle's leg Gules fesswise issuing from the division. A bordure Or.

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Groddeck Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per bend sinister: first, Azure, a demi-lion Argent armed and langued Gules, crowned Or, issuing from the division and holding a sword Argent hilted Or with point downwards; second, Azure, two bends Argent. Overall, a bend sinister Argent across the division. A bordure Or.

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Groeller (Edle von) Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess azure and argent, overall a crane proper facing sinister with its vigilance, standing on a mount of three coupeaux vert.

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Groening Coat of Arms

Bremen.
Argent, five roses Gules, two, one and two.

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Bremen.
Per pale: first, Argent, five roses Gules, two, one and two; second, Or, an eagle Sable.

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Groestorp Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Gules, a dish with spiral fluting Or, described by Rietstap as possibly a rose.

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Groithaus (Barons) Coat of Arms

Westphalia, Courland.
Argent, a bend Sable embattled on its lower edge, the battlements drawn vertically.

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Grolandt Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Sable, three scythe blades Argent arranged in pall and issuing from a rose Or at the centre.

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Gröling Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Quarterly: first, Azure, two banners Or attached to tilting lances Argent in saltire; second, Or, the Prussian eagle, an eagle Sable beaked and membered Or, with a royal crown above its head, semicircular bands ending in trefoils Or on its wings and the crowned intertwined letters F R Or on its breast, here holding a sceptre in its dexter talon and a sword in its sinister talon, their tinctures unspecified; third, chequy Or and Azure; fourth, Azure, a sinister arm clothed in a hussar's uniform brandishing a sabre Argent hilted Or, the uniform and hand's tinctures unspecified.

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Grolman Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, a fleur-de-lis Argent; a bordure Or.

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Prussia.
Azure, a fleur-de-lis Or with a star Or in base.

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Grolmann Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, a fleur-de-lis Or; a bordure Or.

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Gromadzki Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, a horseshoe Argent with ends downwards, surmounted by a small cross pattée Or and with a similar cross beside each end.

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Grone Coat of Arms

Brunswick, Prussia, Hanover.
Lozengy Gules and Or within a central lozenge-shaped area, the four surrounding corner areas Argent.

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Germany.
Argent, an eagle in profile proper with wings raised, crowned Or and holding a ring Or in its beak, standing on a mound Vert.

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Gronedel Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Argent, three stars sable.

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Gronefeld Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Argent, a plant Vert bearing three small leaves and one larger leaf; a bordure Gules.

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Gronefeld Edle von Ottbergen Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Argent, a plant Vert bearing three small trefoil-shaped leaves and one long tapering leaf; a bordure Gules.

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Gröneveld Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Vert, a fess Argent charged with three trefoils Vert; a bordure Or.

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Gronewoldt Coat of Arms

Hamburg.
Azure, a naked man of natural flesh colour holding bagpipes and sitting on a square stone Or issuing from the sinister side; the bagpipes' tincture is unspecified.

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Gronsfeld Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Or, three balls Gules.

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Rhine Province.
Or, three balls gules.

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Gronsfeld Counts of Diepenbroick-Impel Coat of Arms

Prussia, Limburg.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, three balls Gules; second and third, Sable, a canton Argent. Overall, an inescutcheon quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, two swords Argent hilted Sable in saltire with points downwards; second and third, Azure, a fess Argent supporting a raven Or, that in the third quarter reversed.

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Gronsfeld-Diepenbroick zu Limpurg-Sontheim Coat of Arms

Württemberg.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, three balls Gules; second and third, Sable, a canton Argent. Overall, an inescutcheon quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, two swords Argent hilted Sable in saltire with points downwards; second and third, Azure, a fess Or supporting three birds Or. Across the base of the main shield, a compartment bearing the arms of Schenk von Limpurg: quarterly, first and fourth per fess Argent and Gules with a division of long triangular points, second and third Azure five mace heads Argent, three and two; over these four quarters a double cup Or.

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Gronstein Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Gules, an escutcheon argent at the centre between three fleurs-de-lis or.

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Groote auf Poxau und Irlbach Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a fess Or charged with an escallop Sable, between three hawk's bells Or in a row in chief and two martlets Or in base; second and third, Sable, a lion Or crowned Or, that in the third quarter reversed.

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Groote de Kendenich Coat of Arms

Westphalia, Flanders.
Or, two stars Azure in chief and a trefoil Vert in base.

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Gröpeling Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, a cauldron sable.

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Groppello (Barons) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a double-headed eagle Sable, each head crowned Or; second and third, Azure, a lion Gules crowned Or, holding a sword Argent in one forepaw and supporting a star Gules in the other, that in the third quarter reversed. Overall, an inescutcheon Or charged with six roses Gules in a circle.

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Gropper (Edle von) Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a stag springing Gules attired Or; second and third, Or, a bend Azure charged with a fish Argent.

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Gros Coat of Arms

Meissen.
Gules, on a bend argent three trefoils vert in bend.

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Rothenburg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Argent, two chevrons sable.

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Grosberg de Bavière (Counts) Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess: above, fusilly Argent and Azure; below, Azure, a lion Argent armed and langued Gules.

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Groschlag de Diepurg Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Azure, three bends chequy Argent and Gules, with a crown Or bendwise between the first two bends.

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Grosdietz Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Sable, a lion rampant or.

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Gröser Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Chevronny of four Gules and Or.

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Groshausen Coat of Arms

Germany.
Tierced in fess: first, Gules plain; second, Argent, a star Gules; third, Azure, two stars Argent side by side.

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Gross Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Argent, a lime-tree branch Vert on a mount Vert.

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Gross de Trockau (Barons) Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per pale argent and azure, overall a fess gules.

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Grosschedl Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or; second and third, sable, a fess or.

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Grosschedl von Perckhausen und Aiglspach Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, themselves quarterly Or plain and Sable charged with a fess Or; second and third, per pale Azure and Argent, two proboscides, or open-ended heraldic horns, counterchanged.

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Grosser Coat of Arms

Germany.
Or, a pyramid Argent on a pedestal Argent standing on a ground Vert; overall, a pilgrim's staff Sable bendwise across the pyramid.

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Grosshauser Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess: above, Gules plain; below, Azure, two stars Argent. Overall, a fess Argent charged with a star Gules across the division.

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Grosskreuz Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first, Azure, a sinister arm in armour Argent issuing from the vertical division, with a hand of natural flesh colour holding a sword Argent hilted Or; second, Gules, a cross pattée Argent with crescent-shaped ends; third, Gules, a trophy of flags, drums, cannonballs and other military objects supported on a ground, their tinctures unspecified; fourth, Or, a Moor in profile wearing a head-wreath and skirt Argent, shooting an arrow from a bow, the flesh, bow and arrow's tinctures unspecified.

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Grossmann Coat of Arms

Saxony, Prussia.
Per fess: above, Sable, three stars Or; below, Or, three mountains Sable in a row within a bordure Sable belonging to this lower half. The whole shield within a bordure Or.

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Grote Coat of Arms

Hamburg.
Argent, a fess Sable charged with three ragged staffs proper palewise, each bearing a single leaf Vert on its sinister side.

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Hamburg.
Argent, a grapevine bearing three bunches of grapes and two leaves, entwined around its supporting stake and standing on a mound, all proper.

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Hanover.
Argent, a horse passant sable bridled gules.

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Hanover.
Quarterly: first and fourth, argent, a horse passant sable bridled gules; second and third, or, an eagle gules crowned, beaked and membered of the field.

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Westphalia.
Gules, on a fess argent a trefoil sable.

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Grote Barons of Schauen Coat of Arms

Hanover.
Argent, a horse passant sable bridled gules, on a chief of the first a cross pattee couped gules.

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Grottno Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, a sinister arm clothed Or with a hand of natural flesh colour holding a flag Argent flying; the flagstaff's tincture is unspecified.

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Groulart Coat of Arms

Westphalia, Champagne.
Azure, three stars or.

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Grübel Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Gules, two maces Argent in saltire between two stars Argent, one in chief and one in base.

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Gruben Coat of Arms

Brunswick.
Or, two pales gules between three roses of the same in fess.

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Hanover.
Argent, a pot-hanger Sable.

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Rhine Province.
Gules, two wings facing one another argent.

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Rhine Province.
Quarterly: first, Azure, a bend sinister wavy Or with a star Or in the dexter chief corner; second and third, Argent, a lion Sable holding a rose Gules stalked Vert in its sinister forepaw; fourth, Azure, three mountains Or issuing from base, with a star Or in the dexter chief corner.

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Gruben auf Irsing Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Divided by one horizontal and two vertical lines into six quarters: first, Or, an oval mirror Azure with handle Azure; second, Azure, a bend sinister wavy Or with a star Or in chief; third and fifth, Or, a rose Gules; fourth, Azure, three roses Or; sixth, Azure, three rocky peaks Or arranged in bend sinister, with a star Or in chief. Overall, an inescutcheon Argent bordered Sable and charged with a lion Sable supporting a rose Gules in its paws.

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Gruben, Grubbe or Grubben Coat of Arms

Pomerania, Sweden, Saxony.
Azure, a lion rampant or.

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Gruber Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, a demi-man clothed Vert, girdled and collared Or, holding a sword Argent palewise, the flesh tincture unspecified; second and third, Azure, a spade Argent hafted Or bendwise sinister with blade uppermost.

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Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Azure, a lion Or holding between its paws a bunch of grapes Purpure with vine leaves Vert.

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Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per pale Or and Azure, a chevron counterchanged.

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Nördlingen, Bavaria, Swabia.
Per bend Sable and Argent, a pointer dog rampant counterchanged.

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Gruber de Grub Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess: first, argent chapé-ployé sable; second, argent a lozenge sable.

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Gruber de Hulstet Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Argent, a portico supported by two columns, all Gules.

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Grüber de Peterskirch Coat of Arms

Bavaria, Prussia.
Argent, a boar's head sable.

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Grüber or Gruber (Edle von) Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a lion Or crowned Or; second and third, Gules, a spade Argent hafted Or bendwise with blade downwards.

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Grudna-Grudzinski Coat of Arms

Poland, Prussia.
Quarterly: first, Or, a maiden affronty clothed Gules with skirt Or and crowned Or, seated with arms raised on a bear passant Sable, the maiden's flesh tincture unspecified; second, Gules, a rose Argent barbed Vert; third, Azure, a fess between six fleurs-de-lis Or; fourth, Gules, a small boat Or. Overall, a fess Sable across the horizontal division. Over all, an inescutcheon Or charged with a wall without battlements occupying its lower half, surmounted by three embattled towers, all Gules; on the threshold of the gateway, whose two doors stand open, a knight in profile holding a sword Argent in his dexter hand, the knight's tincture unspecified.

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Grueb de Löwenmuth Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a lion Argent holding a staff palewise in its paws, the first lion reversed; second and third, Or, a demi-woman in three-quarter view issuing from the bottom, clothed Gules with a collar Argent and holding a staff palewise in her hands, the woman in the third quarter reversed. The staffs and women's flesh tinctures are unspecified.

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Grueber Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Sable, a lion Or crowned Or standing on a mound Or; curved side compartments Gules formed by lines from the centre of chief to the base corners, the dexter compartment charged with a bend sinister Argent and the sinister compartment with a bend Argent.

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Gruithausen, Gruithuisen or Gruthus Coat of Arms

Rhine Province, Champagne.
Argent, an eagle Gules beaked and membered Azure, bearing on its breast an escutcheon Or charged with a fess Azure.

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Grumbach Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Paly or and gules, a chief vert.

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Grumbach or Grombach Coat of Arms

Saxony, Frisia.
Or, a Moor walking, girdled Argent, holding in his dexter hand a rose branch Vert with three roses Gules and resting his sinister hand on his hip; the figure's body tincture is unspecified.

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Grün Coat of Arms

Palatinate, Saxony, Silesia.
Per fess Argent and Vert, a fir tree eradicated counterchanged.

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Grün (von der) Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Gules, a bend argent.

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Grünau Coat of Arms

Baden.
Quarterly azure and argent, overall an escutcheon vert charged with three roses argent.

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Silesia.
Gules, two eagle legs Or in saltire with talons uppermost.

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Grünbach d'Anwalding Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a sea proper in base with a pine tree eradicated proper overall; second and third, Or, an ibex rampant Sable standing on a mound Gules, that in the third quarter reversed.

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Grünberg Coat of Arms

Silesia, Brandenburg; green-fess version.
Gules, a fess Vert.

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Silesia, Brandenburg; silver-fess version.
Gules, a fess Argent.

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Grünberg (Barons) Coat of Arms

Baden.
Argent, a mound of three hills Vert supported by another mound of three hills Or, the two mounds placed at the centre of the shield.

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Grünberger Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a tree on a ground Vert; second and third, Azure, a star Argent.

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Grundherr (von) zu Altenthann und Weiherhaus Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Gules, a demi-lion Argent crowned Or.

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Grundies Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Gules, three daggers Argent with their points meeting at the centre, arranged in pall.

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Grundler Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a three-legged vessel Sable emitting jets of smoke and standing on a mound Vert, the smoke's tincture unspecified; second and third, Gules, a bend wavy Argent.

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Gründler Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Per fess: above, Gules, a demi-lion Or issuing from the division; below, Sable, a sinister arm in armour holding a sword, all proper. Overall, a fess Argent across the division.

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Grundmann Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Gules, a rod Or.

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Grundner Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a sinister arm in armour Azure with a gauntlet Azure, holding a sword Argent and a cross of Lorraine Gules; second and third, Or, a tower Gules standing on a mound Vert.

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Grundtner Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, a man clothed per pale Or and Sable, his dexter leg clad Sable and his sinister leg Or, wearing a cap Sable turned up Or and holding a staff Or resting against his dexter side, standing on a pavement Argent divided into tiles; the flesh tincture is unspecified.

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Regensburg, Bavaria.
Per fess: above, Azure, a lion passant Or; below, Gules, a bend Argent. Overall, a fess Sable across the division.

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Grunelius Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Gules, a palm tree Or on a mound of three hills Or.

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Grünenberg (Barons) Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Gules, two proboscides, or open-ended heraldic horns, Argent, each entwined by a rose branch stalked and leaved Vert and bearing three roses Argent.

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Grunenthal Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Gules, a battle-axe argent in bend.

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Grunenthal called Siebmann Coat of Arms

Prussia, Tyrol.
Quarterly: first, Azure, a battleaxe Argent; second, Argent, a sinister arm in armour proper; third, Argent, a linden tree on a ground Vert; fourth, Azure, an eagle's leg proper with talon downwards.

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Grünenwaldt Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Sable, a unicorn rampant or standing on a mount or.

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Gruner Coat of Arms

Bremen.
Argent, three laurel plants Vert on a ground Vert.

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Prussia.
Quarterly: first, Gules, a sinister arm in armour Argent with a hand of natural flesh colour holding a roll of paper Argent; second and third, Azure, three stars Or in bend; fourth, Gules, a sinister arm in armour Argent with a hand of natural flesh colour holding a lighted torch proper. Overall, an inescutcheon Or charged with three laurel branches Vert issuing from a mound Vert, their lower stems crossed in saltire.

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Grüner Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Gules, a crescent Or turned towards dexter.

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Grünewald Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Or, two trees vert on a terrace of the same, overall on a fess argent three roses gules.

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Grünhof Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Vert, a harp Or stringed Argent; second and third, Argent, two olive branches Vert curved into a wreath with their lower stems crossed in saltire.

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Grünneysen Coat of Arms

Germany.
Or, an ostrich proper holding a horseshoe in its beak and standing on a ground Vert, the horseshoe's tincture unspecified; curved side compartments Sable formed by lines from the centre of chief to the base corners, each charged with a fleur-de-lis Or.

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Grünroth, Grünrod or Grünrad Coat of Arms

Saxony, Bavaria.
Gules, a pointer dog springing Argent collared Sable.

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Grüter Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Argent, two escutcheons Gules side by side.

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Grüter-Morrien Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, two escutcheons Gules side by side; second and third, Argent, a bend sinister Sable embattled on its lower edge with four battlements, with a star Gules in the dexter chief corner.

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Gruterus Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Per fess: above, Azure, two ducks Argent swimming on water Argent; below, Azure, a wheel of eight spokes Gules.

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Grutschreiber Coat of Arms

Silesia, Denmark.
Per pale azure and or, overall a dog rampant proper collared or.

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Gryn Coat of Arms

Cologne, Rhine Province.
Sable, three grimacing heads affronty Or crowned Or.

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Gryzik de Schomberg-Godulla Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Or, with curved side compartments Azure formed by lines from the upper corners to the centre of base; on the Or, a miner's mallet and chisel proper in saltire.

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Gschwendtner Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, an anchor without a stock Or; curved side compartments formed by lines from the centre of chief to the base corners: the dexter compartment Argent charged with a man clothed in a tunic Gules, his head crowned with feathers and his dexter hand holding an arrow palewise, the flesh, feathers and arrow's tinctures unspecified; the sinister compartment per fess Or and Sable charged with a fleur-de-lis counterchanged.

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Guaita Coat of Arms

Milan, Tournai, Rhine Province, Lombardy, Hainaut, Tournaisis.
Per fess: above, Gules, an eagle Or crowned with an antique crown Or; below, Argent, three chevrons Sable, with a bordure compony Sable and Argent along the sides and base of this lower half.

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Gualtieri Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, three fesses or, in chief three bezants.

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Guckenberg Coat of Arms

Rothenburg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Argent, a bird proper standing on a mound Vert.

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Gudenau Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Or, a fleur-de-lis Azure in chief and two roses Gules side by side in base.

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Gudentz Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Gules, a swan's head and neck Or.

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Guelle Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, per fess, above Argent a chancellor's cap Sable, below Argent two lions Sable side by side; second and third, Argent, a fess Sable between three roses Gules.

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Guérard (de or von) Coat of Arms

Lorraine, Rhine Province, Austria.
Per fess: above, Azure, a dove volant Argent holding an olive branch proper in its beak; below, Argent, three small crosses Gules with pointed lower limbs.

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Guertner Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Sable, a griffin crowned and holding a fleur-de-lis, all Or; in the two chief corners, rounded cantons Azure each charged with a star Argent.

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Guetbrod Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Argent, a fess Gules charged with the lower part of a table Or, with three stars Or in a row in chief.

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Guetmann (Edle von) Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess: above, Azure, a pelican with its young Or; below, Argent, a fess Gules.

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Guettknecht Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: above, Or, a demi-man clothed Azure and wearing an Albanian cap Azure, supporting a covered cup Or in his dexter hand, the flesh tincture unspecified; below, Argent, a fess Gules.

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Guetzheimer Coat of Arms

Rothenburg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per fess and paly of three Gules and Argent, the tinctures counterchanged across the horizontal division.

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Gugel Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Gules, on a bend azure three fleurs-de-lis or in bend.

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Gugger de Staudach Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a raven Sable holding a ring Or in its beak and perched on a row of six palisade stakes Sable planted in a mound Vert; second and third, Azure, a rose branch Vert flowered Gules and leaved Vert, growing from a small ragged staff fesswise in base, the staff's tincture unspecified.

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Gugler Coat of Arms

Munich, Bavaria.
Tierced in fess Sable, Or and Azure, overall a lion Argent crowned Or supporting a ball Azure in its dexter forepaw.

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Gugler (Edle von) Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Tierced in fess Sable, Or and Azure, overall a knight in full armour with visor raised and a plumed helmet, holding a tilting lance couched and mounted on a galloping horse caparisoned, armoured and plumed, all proper.

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Gugler von und zur Zellhofen Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, tierced in fess Sable, Or and Azure, overall a lion Argent crowned Or supporting a ball Azure in a forepaw, the ball lying on the Sable, the lion in the first quarter reversed; second and third, Or, a chevron Azure bordered Gules, surmounted by an eagle Sable crowned Or.

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Gugomos Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, a swan Argent beaked Sable swimming in water Argent, between four reeds proper.

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Gühlen or Gülen Coat of Arms

Brandenburg, Mecklenburg.
Argent, a unicorn rampant Gules.

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Brandenburg, Mecklenburg.
Argent, a unicorn rampant gules.

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Guichard called Quintus Icilius Coat of Arms

Prussia, Hanover.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, two bars Argent; second and third, Argent, two lions couchant Gules, one above the other. Overall, an inescutcheon Argent charged with Saint George in armour proper, mounted on a horse Sable and slaying a dragon Gules.

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GUIDE. Barop Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, on a bend gules a bear passant proper in bend.

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Guilbert Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Or, a parrot Vert collared Gules standing on a mound Vert and holding a trefoil Vert in its beak.

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Guin (Barons) Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, an arm palewise clothed Gules with a hand of natural flesh colour brandishing a sword proper; second and third, Azure, a stag's head and neck proper, the neck pierced fesswise by an arrow Gules, the head in the third quarter reversed. Overall, an embattled tower Argent surmounted by fire Gules.

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Guionneau Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, a chevron between three bezants in a row in chief and a fleur-de-lis in base, all Or.

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Guival de Püchwiss Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a lion Or; second and third, Gules, a cross couped Argent between four fleurs-de-lis Argent. Overall, an inescutcheon Or charged with an eagle Sable beaked and membered Or.

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Gulat de Wellenburg Coat of Arms

Baden.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, two hands of natural flesh colour, each holding a sword Argent and issuing from a cloud in one of the base corners, the swords in saltire within a laurel wreath Vert, the clouds' tincture unspecified; second and third, Argent, a lion Gules crowned Or.

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Gulcher Coat of Arms

Utrecht, Rhine Province.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, three bars Argent with three stars Argent, two above the first bar and one below it; second and third, per fess Argent and Gules, overall a fess wavy counterchanged supporting a horse galloping proper.

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Gulden Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Sable, an orb Or banded and surmounted by a cross Or.

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Guldenbock Coat of Arms

Brunswick.
Or, two wolves courant Sable, one above the other.

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Güldenheufft Coat of Arms

Cologne, Rhine Province.
Sable, three men's heads Or in three-quarter view.

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Gülich Coat of Arms

Mecklenburg.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a dove rising Argent holding an olive branch Vert in its beak; second, Argent, five hearts Gules, two, one and two; third, Argent, five roses Gules, two, one and two.

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Gülle Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Argent, on a bend gules three stars of the field.

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Gullmann Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, a Hungarian man in profile shown from the knees upwards, clothed Or with braided fastenings Gules and wearing a cap Gules with a hanging tail; a bordure Argent. The flesh tincture is unspecified.

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Gumbrich de Gumbrecht Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per pale: first, Vert, a double fleur-de-lis Argent; second, Argent, a demi-eagle Sable beaked and membered Or issuing from the division. A bordure Or.

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Gumeringen Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Azure, two wings addorsed argent.

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Gummer zu Engelsburg und Hochegg Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Sable, a griffin Or holding a hop branch proper in its paws, that in the first quarter reversed; second and third, Or, an eagle Sable, that in the third quarter reversed.

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Gummersbach Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Argent, a fess wavy sable.

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Gumpart de Gusten Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a demi-eagle Sable issuing from the vertical division; second and third, Gules, an arm in armour proper palewise, brandishing a sword Argent hilted Or.

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Gumpelshamer Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Azure, a bend Or charged with three birds Gules; second and third, per bend sinister Or and Sable, an ibex rampant counterchanged with horns Gules.

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Gumpert Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Argent, a hunting horn or with its mouthpiece toward dexter; the field chapé-ployé gules, charged with two cocks sable.

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Gumppenberg Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, a bend wavy Argent charged with three linden leaves Vert aligned with the bend; second and third, Gules, a bend Argent charged with three water-lily leaves Vert aligned with the bend.

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Gumprecht Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Or, on a bend gules three annulets argent.

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Regensburg, Bavaria.
Quarterly Azure and Argent, the partition lines indented with large zigzag points.

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Gundelfingen Coat of Arms

Swabia; alternative arms.
Or, a tree trunk Gules bendwise, each side furnished with hooks Gules.

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Swabia; zigzag-bend version.
Or, a bend Gules with large zigzag edges.

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Gundelfinger Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per pale Gules and Argent, an annulet counterchanged.

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Nördlingen, Bavaria, Swabia.
Per pale: first, Sable, three leopard faces Or with rings Or, arranged in pale; second, per pale Or and Sable with a division of three long triangular points.

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Zittau, Saxony; grant of arms, 1561, corrected in the supplement.
Per fess: above, Sable, a fleur-de-lis Or; below, Argent, a fleur-de-lis Azure.

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Gündell Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per pale Azure and Gules, overall a gondola Or with three oars Or.

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Gundelsheim Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Gules, a pale argent.

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Günderrode Coat of Arms

Frankfurt, Bavaria, Hesse.
Azure, an owl proper crowned Or perched on a leafless branch Or issuing from base, with a star Or in dexter chief.

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Gundersdorf Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Argent, a gimlet Gules.

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Gundlach Coat of Arms

Mecklenburg, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Or, a demi-man Argent clothed Azure and wearing a pointed cap Azure, issuing from a mound Gules and holding a shrub Vert in each hand.

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Gundling (Barons) Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Divided by two vertical and two horizontal lines into nine quarters, with a base Vert: first, Azure, a crown Or; second, Argent, an eagle's head Sable beaked Or; third, Or, a laurel wreath Vert; fourth, Argent, a single wing reversed Sable; fifth, per pale, dexter paly Gules and Argent, sinister Azure nine lozenges Or conjoined side to side and point to point, three, three and three; sixth, Argent, a single wing Sable; seventh, Or, an eagle's leg Gules with foot Or; eighth, Argent, an eagle's tail Sable; ninth, Or, an eagle's leg reversed Gules with foot Or.

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Gundriphen Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Gules, a sea-hare per fess Or and Azure.

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Gunten Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Or, two arms clothed Azure, upright and side by side, with hands of natural flesh colour.

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Günther Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, a roebuck rampant proper, below it a terrace vert.

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Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, gules, an annulet or; second and third, azure, a star argent.

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Prussia.
Azure, a sinister arm in armour Sable issuing from a cloud Argent at the side, with a clenched hand of natural flesh colour; a bordure Or.

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Rhine Province.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, a demi-eagle Sable crowned Or issuing from the vertical division; second and third, Gules, two bends Argent.

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Günther (Barons) Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Or, on a bend gules three stars argent.

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Günther auf Defersdorf Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Gules, a tiger proper walking on a hill Vert, that in the first quarter reversed; second, Azure, a fess Argent between three stars Or; third, Azure, a chevron Or. Overall, an inescutcheon Or crowned Or and charged with an eagle Sable.

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Güntherodt Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Quarterly: first, Azure, an owl proper crowned Or with wings spread and lowered, perched on a ragged staff Sable fesswise, its sinister cut end Or, with a star Or in sinister chief; second, Gules, a pair of wings Sable arranged in the ancient form, one behind the other; third, Gules, a dog sejant reversed Argent collared and buckled Or, seated on a square cushion Sable tasselled Or at the corners; fourth, Or, a fleur-de-lis Argent in chief and two roses Gules seeded Or in base.

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Günzburg Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, an arm in armour proper holding a tilting lance Gules with a pennon Gules; second and third, Gules, a beehive Or between three bees Argent, one above two.

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Günzler Coat of Arms

Nördlingen, Bavaria, Swabia.
Per pale Sable and Or, a bearded demi-man with clothing and cap counterchanged, holding in his dexter hand three quatrefoils Or growing from one stalk; the flesh, beard and stalk's tinctures are unspecified.

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Guolfinger de Steinsberg Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per pale Argent and Gules, a cross pattée couped counterchanged.

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Guretzki Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Azure, a he-goat rampant proper.

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Guretzky-Kornitz de Gureck Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Gules, a T-shaped cross Argent with a ball at each end of its crossbar, raised on a flight of three steps proper.

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Gurowski Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Chequy azure and argent.

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Russia, Prussia.
Chequy Argent and Azure in eight rows of eight squares. Overall, an inescutcheon Argent crowned Or, charged with the Prussian eagle: an eagle Sable beaked and membered Or, with a royal crown above its head and semicircular bands ending in trefoils Or on its wings, here holding an orb and sceptre, their tinctures unspecified, and bearing the letters F W R Or on its breast.

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Gürtzgen de Schwerfen Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, a stag springing proper, a bordure wavy azure.

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Gusner Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Gules, a spearhead or in bend.

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Güss de Güssenberg Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Azure, on a bend or three stars gules.

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Gustedt Coat of Arms

Hanover.
Or, three pot-hangers Sable.

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Gusten Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Or, five palets gules.

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Guth de Sultz Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, per pale Sable and Argent, two metal cramps counterchanged; second and third, barry of four Or and Gules, the first Or stripe charged with a star Sable.

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Guthy Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first, Gules, a church Argent roofed Gules with its tower on the sinister side; second, Or, a chamois proper on a mound Vert; third, Argent, a ram proper walking on a ground Vert; fourth, Azure, a chevron Or with a star Or in base.

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Gütle Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, a fleur-de-lis argent.

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Gutschmid Coat of Arms

Saxony, Silesia.
Argent, a base Azure, from which issues upright an arm in armour proper, with a hand of natural flesh colour holding a laurel wreath Vert.

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Gütschow called von Gützkow Coat of Arms

Mecklenburg.
Or, a cross pattée Azure between four six-petalled roses Gules.

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Gutte Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Azure, a fish swimming Argent with a pair of stag's antlers proper on its head.

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Guttenberg Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, a rose or.

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Guttenberg (Counts) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Or, an eagle Sable crowned Or, that in the first quarter reversed; second and third, Azure, a bend also Azure charged with three pales Gules. Overall, an inescutcheon Azure charged with a star Or supported by a mound of three hills Vert. The matching Azure field and bend follow the printed blazon.

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Gutthäter or Güdetter Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Sable, a demi-man clothed Or and wearing a hat Or turned up Sable, holding a halberd and issuing from an embattled wall Gules masoned Sable; the flesh and halberd's tinctures are unspecified.

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Güttingen Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Sable, an annulet or.

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Gützkow Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, a greyhound courant argent.

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Gutzmerow Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Per fess: above, Argent, a demi-stag proper issuing from the division; below, chequy Sable and Or.

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Gwandschneider Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per bend Or and Sable, a stag rampant counterchanged.

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Gwiazdowski or Stern-Gwiazdowski Coat of Arms

Courland, Prussia.
Per fess: above, Gules, three arrows Argent with three-pronged heads, two in saltire with heads downwards and the third palewise overall with head upwards; below, Azure, a crescent Or surmounted by a star Or.

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Gymnich Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Argent, a cross engrailed gules.

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Gyntter Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Quarterly: first and fourth, Argent, a rose Gules; second and third, Gules, a trefoil Vert bendwise. Overall, an inescutcheon Argent charged with a rose Gules.

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Gyr Coat of Arms

Cologne, Rhine Province.
Azure, three lions rampant argent.

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Gyra Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Per fess: above, Or, four pales Azure; below, Gules, a lamb passant on a ground, all proper.

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Saxony.
Vert, an annulet argent.

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