Blazons of Germany - U
This collection presents 106 German-linked shield entries beginning with U 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 U 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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Ub surnames
Uben Coat of Arms
Rhine Province.
Sable, a pair of wings conjoined and lowered or.
Uberlingen Coat of Arms
Swabia.
Per bend nebuly azure and argent.
Ubeske Coat of Arms
Pomerania.
Gules, a sun or.
Ubrichingen Coat of Arms
Swabia.
Argent, chapé-ployé gules.
Uc surnames
Uchtenhagen Coat of Arms
Brandenburg, Pomerania.
Argent, a wheel gules.
Uchteriedt Coat of Arms
Swabia.
Argent, on a bend sable three roundels or.
Uckermann Coat of Arms
Pomerania.
Per bend argent and or, overall a bend azure.
Saxony; horizontal oak-branch version.
Per fess: first, azure an oak branch or, leaved and bearing acorns or, placed in fess; second, argent a fess couped gules.
Saxony; upright oak-branch version.
Per fess: first, azure an oak branch or with acorns or, placed in pale; second, argent a fess couped gules.
Uckro Coat of Arms
Brandenburg.
Sable, a bend sinister chequy gules and argent between a stag’s head and neck argent in chief and a buffalo’s head and neck argent, horned gules, in base.
Uclaux, Counts of la Valette Coat of Arms
France, Silesia, Galicia.
Quarterly: first, azure, a fleur-de-lis or; second and third, gules, a lion rampant or; fourth, azure, a star argent.
Ud surnames
Udesheim Coat of Arms
Westphalia.
Or, a fess azure with a hunting horn azure in dexter chief.
Ue surnames
Uebel Coat of Arms
Prussia — ennobled 5 February 1835.
Quarterly azure and argent, overall a bend gules charged with three stars or.
Prussia — plain argent quarters.
Quarterly: first and fourth, argent plain; second and third, azure, a star or.
Ueberacker, Barons of Sieghartstein Coat of Arms
Autriche, Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, sable, two demi-wheels back to back or, one in sinister chief and the other in dexter base; second and third, sable, a sinister arm of flesh colour holding a truncated and shortened club proper. Overall, an inescutcheon gules charged with a pale gules, cut short and rounded at its lower end.
Editorial note: Rietstap prints both the inescutcheon and its pale as gules; the repeated tincture is retained.
Ueberbruck de Rodenstein Coat of Arms
Hesse, Baden.
Quarterly: first and fourth, vert, an ox’s head caboshed argent horned or; second and third, argent, a billet gules laid horizontally in chief and a millrind gules in base.
Ueblagger (Edle von) Coat of Arms
Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, azure a bend argent charged with three trefoils azure placed in the direction of the bend; second and third, per pale vert and argent, a demi-man in profile, habited and wearing a cap counterchanged, holding in his dexter hand a sickle or upright with its cutting edge toward sinister.
Uechtritz Coat of Arms
Saxony.
Azure, two keys argent in saltire.
Uechtritz de Steinkirch Coat of Arms
Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria, Autriche.
Per pale argent and azure, two keys or in saltire over the partition.
Uechtritz-Wiedebach Coat of Arms
Saxony.
Quarterly: first and fourth, per pale argent and azure, two keys or in saltire; second and third, argent, an eagle azure charged on its breast with a crescent argent.
Uetterodt (Barons) Coat of Arms
Hesse, Saxony.
Argent, three crescents azure, two and one, the two upper crescents back to back and the lower inverted, each enclosing between its horns a sun without a face gules.
Uetterodt de Scharffenberg Coat of Arms
Saxe-Weimar, Hesse.
Quarterly: first and fourth, argent, a lion rampant sable; second and third, argent, three pallets sable. Overall, an inescutcheon argent charged with three crescents azure, two and one, the two upper crescents back to back and the lower inverted, each enclosing between its horns a sun without a face gules.
Uf surnames
Uffeln Coat of Arms
Hanover, Hesse, Prussia.
Or, a Moor’s bust affronty with arms cut off, vested gules and wreathed about the head argent, with two stars azure in chief.
Westphalia — bear arms.
Or, a bear rampant sable collared argent, attached to a chain reaching the sinister chief corner, the chain’s tincture unspecified.
Westphalia — narrow bend arms.
Per pale sable and or, a narrow bend counterchanged.
Uffenbach Coat of Arms
Germany.
Gules, on a bend wavy argent three scorpions sable following the direction of the bend.
Uffsteiner Coat of Arms
Frankfurt, Hesse.
Azure, a cock’s leg or grasping a stone gules, the talons downward.
Uh surnames
Uhde Coat of Arms
Thuringia.
Per fess: first, argent, a demi-eagle sable issuing from the division; second, gules, a star or.
Uhl Coat of Arms
Nuremberg, Bavaria.
Azure, a hill of three coupeaux or issuing from base and emitting flames gules, surmounted by a star or and accompanied by two further stars or, one on either side.
Uhlein Coat of Arms
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Or, a fleur-de-lis sable.
Ui surnames
Uiterstewehr or Uitersweer Coat of Arms
East Frisia.
Gules, a heraldic panther sable.
Uiterwyck Coat of Arms
Overijssel, Westphalia.
Gules, three cooking pots argent, with or without lids.
Uk surnames
Ukena Coat of Arms
East Frisia.
Azure, a lion rampant argent, its neck encircled by a crown reversed or.
Ul surnames
Ulenbrock or Ulenbroich Coat of Arms
Westphalia.
Argent, an owl sable.
Ullersdorff Coat of Arms
Silesia.
Azure, a voided triangle argent with trefoiled corners, standing upon one of its points.
Ulm zu Erbach (formerly Erbishofen) Coat of Arms
Württemberg, Baden.
Quarterly: first and fourth, per fess azure and gules, overall a fess dancetty argent; second, grandquarterly or and vert; third, per fess, in chief azure, a lion passant gules, and in base chequy argent and azure. Overall, an inescutcheon or charged with a double-headed eagle sable surmounted by an imperial crown, bearing on its breast an escutcheon gules charged with a fess argent and the letters F M R or one above the other, the breast escutcheon surmounted by an archducal hat.
Ulman Coat of Arms
Germany.
Gules, two bars argent.
Ulmenstein Coat of Arms
Hanover.
Quarterly: first and fourth, azure, a horse galloping argent, the horse in the first quarter facing sinister; second and third, argent, three bars gules.
Rhine Province.
Per pale: first, azure, a horse rearing to sinister argent; second, argent, three bars gules.
Ulmi Coat of Arms
Germany.
Per fess: first, or an eagle sable; second, a tree on a terrace vert beneath a sky azure.
Ulner de Diepurg Coat of Arms
Germany.
Or, a tower gules without battlements, with a small doorway sable, issuing from base and surmounted by three embattled turrets gules, the central turret roofed with a pointed roof azure.
Ulrich Coat of Arms
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Azure, a swan argent.
Ulrichsen Coat of Arms
Germany.
Per pale: first, argent, a demi-eagle sable crowned or, issuing from the partition with a trefoil vert to its dexter; second, argent, a demi-parrot vert facing sinister, collared or and issuing from the partition, with a trefoil vert to its sinister. A third trefoil vert lies over the partition at the centre.
Ulrici de Genghofen Coat of Arms
Germany.
Eight quarters in two rows of four: first and eighth, sable, a pair of wings conjoined in the ancient manner argent, charged with a bend sinister gules bearing three stars argent, the wings in the first quarter reversed and the bend sinister changed to a bend; second and seventh, or, a demi-eagle sable issuing from the pale line; third and sixth, gules, a fess argent; fourth and fifth, sable, a demi-lion or issuing from a crown or, the lion in the fifth quarter facing sinister. Overall, an inescutcheon gules charged with five ostrich feathers argent issuing from a crown or.
Um surnames
Umbscheiden Coat of Arms
Rhine Province.
Vert, two letters C or facing one another and interlaced, with a letter I or laid horizontally between them.
Umbscheiden von und zu Rittersdorf Coat of Arms
Rhine Province.
Per fess: first, argent, a demi-lion gules; second, gules, a pentagram argent.
Un surnames
Unbeschelden Coat of Arms
Westphalia.
Argent, a bend sable.
Underholtzer Coat of Arms
Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, bendy or and azure, a chief azure charged with a star or; second and third, or, a demi-woman issuing from an embattled wall argent masoned sable, vested gules and charged on her breast with a small cross argent, her flowing hair or crowned with roses gules, holding three cherries gules without leaves in her dexter hand, her sinister hand resting upon her hip.
Unfried Coat of Arms
Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, gules, a sword argent hilted or between two horseshoes argent; second and third, azure, two arrows argent laid horizontally one above the other, their points toward sinister.
Ungarinus Coat of Arms
Germany.
Per fess: first, or an eagle sable crowned or; second, argent three pales azure, each charged with a snake or undulating vertically and surmounted by a star or.
Ungedew Coat of Arms
Germany.
Per fess azure and or, overall an ostrich argent upon a terrace vert, holding a bundle of ears of grain or in its raised dexter foot; chapé-ployé gules, the sides charged with two bars argent.
Unger Coat of Arms
Brunswick.
Per pale: first, azure, a Hungarian in a hussar’s uniform gules ornamented or, upon a hill vert; second, argent, two arrows gules in saltire.
Unkauff (Knights) Coat of Arms
Germany.
Gules, two bends argent, overall a fess azure charged with a lion passant or.
Unmus d'Altenhausen Coat of Arms
Swabia.
Quarterly indented sable and or.
Unna Coat of Arms
Westphalia.
Per pale: first, or, a demi-eagle sable issuing from the partition; second, argent, a ragged staff vert fesswise, sprouting three oak leaves vert, two above and one below.
Unold Coat of Arms
Bavaria.
Per pale: first, argent, a palm tree upon a hill, all proper, its trunk encircled by a ribbon gules near the foliage; second, azure, three chevrons or, with three five-pointed stars or arranged in pale between the chevrons.
Unruh Coat of Arms
Prussia — quartered arms.
Quarterly: first and fourth, gules, a demi-eagle argent crowned or and issuing from the pale line; second and third, per pale gules and sable. Overall, an inescutcheon or charged with a lion rampant gules.
Prussia — simple arms.
Azure, a lion rampant or crowned or.
Unruhe Coat of Arms
Bavaria.
Per fess: first, argent, two bends gules; second, gules, a fleur-de-lis argent.
Silesia, Saxony.
Or, a griffin gules.
Unruhe-Bomst Coat of Arms
Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or a lion rampant gules; second and third, or an arm vested gules issuing from the side of the shield, the hand flesh-coloured and holding a ring or. Overall an escutcheon or charged with a lion rampant gules.
Unstett Coat of Arms
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Azure, a unicorn rampant or.
Unterrichter de Rechenthal Coat of Arms
Tirol, Bavaria.
Azure, a lion rampant argent crowned or and holding a sword argent; chapé or, the sides charged with two eagles sable, the eagle on the sinister side facing sinister.
Unverfaerth Coat of Arms
Prussia.
Quarterly argent and azure, overall a cross or, with a rose gules seeded or in the first and fourth quarters and a fleur-de-lis argent in the second and third quarters. The cross is charged at its centre with an eagle sable and at the end of each arm with three hearts gules, two and one, their points directed toward the centre of the shield.
Unverricht Coat of Arms
Silesia.
Sable, an anchor argent; on a chief purpure a royal crown or.
Unwerth Coat of Arms
Prussia, Autriche.
Per fess gules and argent, a ragged tree trunk sable over the division.
Unwürde Coat of Arms
Silesia.
Sable, a lion rampant or holding an arrow or raised.
Unzelmann de Fransecky Coat of Arms
Prussia.
Per fess: first, azure, a sinister arm in armour holding a scimitar, all proper; second, gules, two stars or in fess.
Up surnames
Uphusen Coat of Arms
East Frisia.
Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
Upilius Coat of Arms
Franconia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, gules a demi-ram argent horned or; second and third, barry of four gules and argent.
Upladen Coat of Arms
Westphalia.
Argent, a fess embattled on both edges sable.
Ur surnames
Urach Coat of Arms
Württemberg.
Or, a lion rampant sable.
Urach (Counts) Coat of Arms
Swabia — Counts, hunting-horn arms.
Or, a hunting horn gules, banded and mouthed or, stringed azure.
Swabia — Counts, lion and barry arms.
Per fess: first, or, a lion passant gules; second, barry of four, the first and third bars per fess nebuly argent and azure, the other two gules plain.
Urbach (formerly Auerbach), Barons Coat of Arms
Württemberg.
Per pale gules and argent.
Urf von Urf und Zwesten Coat of Arms
Hesse.
Or, two eagles' heads and necks sable addorsed.
Urhausen Coat of Arms
Swabia.
Gules, a unicorn’s head and neck argent.
Urinianin Coat of Arms
Germany.
Vert, a sinister arm in armour argent, the hand of flesh colour holding a sabre argent hilted or piercing a Turk’s head wearing a turban gules turned up argent; two stars argent in chief.
Urlaub Coat of Arms
Prussia, Saxony.
Per fess: first, argent, an arm in armour proper issuing from the division, the hand of flesh colour holding a sabre argent hilted or; second, gules, a chevron or.
Urmiller de Leutstetten Coat of Arms
Bavaria.
Sable, a millstone argent lying upon a mount or, surmounted by a pole argent supporting a horizontal crossbar argent, with two buckets argent suspended from its ends.
Ursein Coat of Arms
Germany.
Argent, a fess dancetty gules.
Ursetti Coat of Arms
Germany.
Per fess: first, azure, an eagle sable; second, gules, two stars or between three ears of grain or without leaves, issuing from a mount vert.
Us surnames
Usedom Coat of Arms
Pomerania — Counts, 19 December 1862 and 11 April 1866.
Argent, three ibex horns gules.
Pomerania — earlier arms.
Argent, three ibex horns gules.
Silesia.
Argent, three hunting horns gules stringed gules, banded and mouthed or, set palewise two and one, their curves toward sinister and their mouthpieces upward.
Usener Coat of Arms
Frankfurt, Hesse.
Per fess: first, per pale, in dexter vert, a sun or issuing from dexter chief, and in sinister azure, a crescent argent on the dexter side with its horns toward dexter, and two stars argent in pale on the sinister side; second, gules, a falcon rising argent in its nest argent.
Uslar Coat of Arms
Hanover, Saxony, Mecklenburg.
Per fess: first, sable plain; second, paly of four argent and gules.
Uslar-Gleichen Coat of Arms
Hanover, Prussia, Hesse, Oldenburg, Austria.
Argent, a fess embattled on both edges gules.
Usmer Coat of Arms
Nuremberg, Bavaria.
Per pale or and gules, two stars counterchanged.
Ussigheim Coat of Arms
Franconia.
Paly of six or and gules, counterchanged across the fess line.
Ut surnames
Uthmann de Rathen Coat of Arms
Silesia.
Per fess: first, azure, a demi-eagle argent issuing from the division; second, gules, an eagle’s leg or on the dexter side and an arm in armour proper on the sinister side.
Uthmann de Schmolz Coat of Arms
Silesia.
Gules, a demi-man-at-arms in full armour, wearing a hat sable with an ostrich feather argent on its sinister side, holding a sword against his shoulder in his dexter hand, his sinister hand resting upon his hip; the tinctures of the armour and sword are unspecified.
Utmann Coat of Arms
Silesia.
Gules, a Swiss soldier without legs, in armour argent, holding in his dexter hand a sword drawn from the scabbard held in his sinister hand, wearing a cap sable plumed or.
Utrecht (von) Coat of Arms
Hamburg.
Gules, a swan argent beaked azure, drawing a small boat or issuing from the sinister flank by a cord argent passed around its neck, all upon water argent.
Uttelstein Coat of Arms
Swabia.
Gules, a bend argent and a chief azure.
Uttenheim Coat of Arms
Rhine Province.
Azure, two staves ending in fleurs-de-lis argent in saltire.
Uttenhofer Coat of Arms
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia — hound arms.
Argent, a hound rampant gules collared or.
Uttenhöfer Coat of Arms
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia — pile arms.
Argent, a pile indented sable.
Uttenhoven or Uttenhoff Coat of Arms
Saxony.
Argent, a fess embattled sable.
Uttershausen Coat of Arms
Hesse.
Gules, a millrind argent supporting two parrots vert facing one another, collared or.
Uttingen Coat of Arms
Bavaria.
Argent, three reeds proper without leaves upon a mount sable.
Utz Coat of Arms
Franconia.
Per pale: first, azure, a wing reversed or; second, argent, two halberds proper in saltire.
Utzingen (Barons) Coat of Arms
Germany.
Argent, a fess vert.
Utzlingen Coat of Arms
Swabia — alternative vert field.
Vert, a stork argent.
Swabia — azure field.
Azure, a stork argent.
Uv surnames
Uva Coat of Arms
Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or an eagle sable crowned or; second and third, gules a bunch of grapes or without vine leaves, its stalk upward, the gules field chapé-ployé argent.
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