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Blazons of Germany - P

This collection presents 136 German-linked shield entries beginning with P 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 P 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 original page. The Enquerre Rietstap index was used as a finding aid and transcription reference.

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Editorial progress: This expanded collection remains a selection. Added English blazons have been compared with the French transcriptions; primary-page verification, complex translations, omitted families and cross-references remain under review.

Pa surnames

Paal Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, azure a bend wavy or charged with three drops sable placed in the direction of the bend; second and third, per fess, the upper part or with a demi-eagle sable issuing from the division and the lower part or chapé-ployé sable.

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Pabor Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Sable, a bend argent.

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Pabst d'Ohain Coat of Arms

Saxony, Prussia.
Or, on a fess azure three stars of the field.

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Pack Coat of Arms

Bâle, Saxony.
Argent, two pales gules.

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Packmohr Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Argent, an arrow gules in bend.

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Padiberg Coat of Arms

Westphalia, Hesse.
Argent, two fesses wavy azure.

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Pahlen (von) de Kehdingen Coat of Arms

Bremen.
Azure, three fesses argent.

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Pallast Coat of Arms

Cologne, Rhine Province.
Sable, a chevron engrailed or.

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Panholtz Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Tierced in fess gules, azure and argent.

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Pantl Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per fess: first, sable, a lion passant or; second, per pale argent and gules.

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Panwitz Coat of Arms

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

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Pape called Papius Coat of Arms

Westphalia, Bar.
Argent, on a fess gules three roses of the field.

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Pappenheim auf Stammen und Liebenau (Barons) Coat of Arms

Hesse, Austria.
Argent, a raven sable crowned or.

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Parchwitz (Barons) Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Azure, a unicorn rampant argent.

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Pardong Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Gules, a cross argent.

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Parkstein comtes de Bergstein Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, argent, a lion rampant azure; second and third, gules, a boar sable on a terrace vert.

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Parlow Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Argent, a bear's head proper crowned or.

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Parpart Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Vert, two fesses gules.

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Partenheim Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Argent, a fess azure between three roses gules.

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Pasquelino Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, a cross gules between four stars or, on a chief of the same an eagle sable.

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Passarini de Luckau Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, on a chevron argent three roses gules.

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Passis Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per pale: first, or three bends gules; second, per fess, the upper part argent with four letters P sable in fess beneath two horseshoes sable side by side, and the lower part gules with a lion rampant azure holding a mace or.

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Paumbgartner Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Sable, a crescent or, above it a crosslet pattee fitchee of the same.

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Paur auf Waffenbrunn und Lebendorf Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, a griffin argent.

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Payr Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per pale: first, or, a bear rampant proper, below it a terrace vert; second, bendy sable and or.

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Pe surnames

Peccatel Coat of Arms

Mecklenburg, Denmark, Livonia.
Azure, a fess argent.

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Pechenstein Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per pale: first, gules; second, barry of four azure and argent.

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Peck Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per bend: first, sable, a lion rampant or crowned of the same; second, Lozengy argent and gules.

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Pederstorf Coat of Arms

Mecklenburg.
Sable, a chevron couped argent with two crossbars, the whole nailed sable.

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Pelden called Cloudt Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Gules, a bend argent.

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Peltzer Coat of Arms

Cologne, Rhine Province.
Sable, a lamb argent.

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Pemler de Leutstetten Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Gules, on a bend azure fimbriated argent three fleurs-de-lis or in bend.

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Pennavaire Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, three cocks or.

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Perckmair Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, sable, a lion rampant or; second and third, or, three pales azure.

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Peres Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Azure, a rose or.

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Perger de Pettmess Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Gules, three linden leaves vert with their points meeting in pall.

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Pergler de Perglas Coat of Arms

Württemberg.
Tierced in fess gules, argent and sable.

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Peris Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Azure, a rose argent.

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Pernegg Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Gules, a bend argent.

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Perseval Coat of Arms

Lübeck.
Or, a chevron sable between three boars' heads of the same.

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Pertzel Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, sable, a lion rampant or; second and third, bendy gules and argent.

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Petersheim Coat of Arms

Limbourg, Westphalia.
Gules semé of billets argent, overall a lion rampant of the same.

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Peterson Coat of Arms

Holstein.
Argent, an eagle sable beaked and membered or.

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Peterswaldt Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Gules, on a fess argent a boar's head sable.

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Peutelschmidt Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Gules, a unicorn passant argent on a terrace vert.

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Pf surnames

Pfalheim Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Gules, an ibex rampant argent.

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Pfantzer Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Azure, three stars argent.

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Pfeffinger Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Or, a demi-boar sable.

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Pfeiffer Coat of Arms

Germany.
Argent, on a bend gules three lions rampant or.

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Pfeil Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Argent, an ibex horn sable with its tip argent.

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Pferdsdorf Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Argent, a horse passant sable.

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Pfersfelder Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per pale argent and azure, overall a fess wavy gules.

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Pfingshorn Coat of Arms

Cologne, Rhine Province.
Per fess: first, bendy or and azure; second, azure, a hunting horn or.

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Pfinzing Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per fess or and sable.

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Pfister Coat of Arms

Augsburg, Bavaria, Swabia.
Gules, an annulet argent between three stars of the same.

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Pfisterer Coat of Arms

Rothenburg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or, a cross couped gules; second and third, azure, a star or.

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Pfündöl Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Argent, a lion rampant sable.

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Pfuser Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Or, an ox statant gules.

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Ph surnames

Phendler de Losberg Coat of Arms

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

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Philippsborn Coat of Arms

Baden.
Quarterly: first and fourth, azure a horse's head and neck argent, that in the first quarter facing sinister; second and third, per pale, first gules a sword argent hilted or with its point downward, second azure a fess argent between two stars argent in pale. A bordure or surrounds the shield. Overall an escutcheon argent charged with a four-petalled rose gules, seeded argent and barbed vert.

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Pi surnames

Pieckenbroich Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, on a chief gules three stars or.

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Piernbaumer Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Gules, on a bend wavy argent a trefoil vert in bend.

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Pieschel Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, a chevron or between three garbs of the same.

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Pieszynski or Renglin-Pieszynski Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Argent, a rose gules.

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Pilgram Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Azure, three escallops argent, a chief or.

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Pilgram d'Eyb Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Argent, three escallops gules.

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Pilssacher Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Gules, two mallets argent in saltire.

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Pinckhardt Coat of Arms

Meissen.
Azure, three roses gules.

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Pinggera de Gerburg Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per pale: first, argent, an eagle gules beaked, membered and crowned or; second, bendy argent and azure.

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Piper Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first, argent an eagle of Prussia, its breast charged with the cypher FWR or surmounted by a royal crown or; second, gules a fleur-de-lis argent; third, azure three stars or; fourth, or a griffin gules with its legs and feet or.

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Pirckenfels Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Gules, an annulet argent.

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Pisanski Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Gules, two fesses argent between nine crosslets pattee of the same, three, three and three.

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Pistorius Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, a wolf courant sable between three stars or.

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Pistorius de Denselin Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Per fess: first, bendy sable and argent; second, sable, a rose argent.

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Pl surnames

Plancken Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess argent and gules, overall a stag rampant proper.

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Planitz (von der) Coat of Arms

Saxony, Württemberg, Silesia.
Per pale argent and gules.

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Planknar de Kinsberg Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Argent, on a chevron gules three roses or.

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Plaumstingl Coat of Arms

Germany.
Sable, a griffin or crowned or, standing on a terrace vert and holding a stalk bearing three garden lilies proper; the field chaperonné-ployé or, charged with two fesses sable.

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Plausig Coat of Arms

Thuringia.
Chequy gules and argent.

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Plenchow Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per bend sable and argent.

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Plesskow Coat of Arms

Lübeck.
Azure, a star or charged with a rose gules.

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Plettenberg-Heeren Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Per pale or and azure.

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Plettenberg-Mietingen Coat of Arms

Württemberg.
Per pale azure and or.

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Plettenberg-Stockum (Barons) Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per pale azure and or.

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Pletzger de Wildburg Coat of Arms

Württemberg, Austria.
Azure, a unicorn rampant argent.

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Plochingen (Barons) Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Bendy or and sable.

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Ploneck Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, on a bend argent between two stars or three roses gules.

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Plönnies Coat of Arms

Westphalia, Bavaria, Hesse, Holland.
Azure, on a bend gules three stars argent.

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Ploschwitz Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, three bends sinister argent.

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Plötz (Edle von) Coat of Arms

Bavaria, Saxony.
Azure, on a bend argent between two roses or a fish of the field.

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Po surnames

Pochhammer Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Argent, an arm in armour proper upright, the flesh-coloured hand wielding a mallet sable in bend with its head toward sinister; on a chief azure an oak branch vert in bend.

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Pöckhl Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Per bend: first, azure, an ibex argent horned or; second, paly gules and argent.

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Pogwisch (Barons) Coat of Arms

Holstein, Prussia.
Azure, a wolf passant argent.

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Pohle Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Azure, a fess or between three leopards' heads of the same.

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Pohlmann Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Argent, three eagles sable.

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Poigk or Bock Coat of Arms

Livonia, Saxony.
Argent, two pales gules.

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Polchitz (Barons) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, a cock argent.

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Pöllnitz Coat of Arms

Bavaria, Saxony.
Argent, a chevron azure.

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Pomer Coat of Arms

Germany.
Tierced in fess azure, argent and gules, overall a lion rampant or.

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Pömer Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per bend: first, bendy of four argent and gules; second, sable.

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Poninski Coat of Arms

Poland, Silesia, Padoue, Vénétie.
Gules, a boat or.

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Ponnier Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Argent, a tuft of rush leaves vert, from which issue to dexter two roses gules stalked vert, one above another.

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Porten (von der) Coat of Arms

Hamburg.
Gules, a bend or.

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Portner de Teurn Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Azure, a stag rampant argent.

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Poschmann Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Gules, a lion rampant or.

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Poseck Coat of Arms

Saxony, Hesse.
Tierced in pale argent, azure and gules.

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Poss Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Azure, on a chevron argent three roses gules.

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Post (Barons) Coat of Arms

Prussia, Hanover.
Azure, a lion rampant argent armed and langued gules, crowned or.

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Poster Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Per fess: first, argent; second, azure, three fesses wavy argent.

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Pot Coat of Arms

Brabant, Westphalia.
Or, a cauldron sable.

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Pott Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Or, a cauldron sable.

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Pr surnames

Prandner Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Or, two firebrands sable flaming proper.

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Praun Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Or, on a bend azure a fleur-de-lis of the field in bend.

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Precht Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per fess gules and azure, overall a crown or.

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Preignac de Frauendorf (Barons) Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, three roses argent seeded or.

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Preiten Coat of Arms

Prussia, Poland.
Gules, on a fess argent between three crosslets pattee or a lion passant azure crowned or.

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Prenger Coat of Arms

Westphalia, Groningue.
Azure, a saltire or.

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Prentner Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, azure, a rose argent; second and third, or, a lion rampant gules.

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Preschel de Rorthal Coat of Arms

Germany.
Or, three leafless reeds proper side by side.

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Preus Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Per pale: first, azure; second, azure, two fesses gules.

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Preuschen von und zu Liebenstein Coat of Arms

Hesse, Bavaria.
Sable, a griffin or crowned of the same.

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Priort Coat of Arms

Brandenburg.
Azure, two demi-wheels addorsed or.

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Proen Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Or, three martlets sable.

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Promnitz Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Gules, an arrow argent in bend between two stars of the same.

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Prume Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, a tree or on a terrace vert.

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Przedeniz Coat of Arms

Germany.
Sable, a bend argent.

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Pu surnames

Puchamer de Jelkoven Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or a griffin sable, that in the first quarter facing sinister; second and third, argent a fess gules.

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Puchenau Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Or, a popinjay vert collared gules.

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Puffka Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Quarterly: first and fourth, azure, a leopard's head argent; second and third, argent, two chevrons gules.

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Pufflich or Puyffelick Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, a bend sable.

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Puhler Coat of Arms

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

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Purkhart Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Argent, a bend gules.

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Puteanus Coat of Arms

Westphalia; earlier arms.
Argent, a wall embattled gules issuing from base and surmounted by a tower gules, above which is an axe sable in bend.

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Westphalia; later arms.
Or, a chevron sable between three roses sable.

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Putzner zu der Putz Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Tierced in fess sable, or and gules.

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Py surnames

Pyrmont (Counts) Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Or, a cross moline gules.

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