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Blazons of Germany - V

This collection presents 231 German-linked shield entries beginning with V 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 V 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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Va surnames

Vacano Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Quarterly: first, argent a demi-eagle sable issuing from the dexter edge of the shield; second, azure plain; third, gules plain; fourth, argent three natural roses gules, stalked and leaved vert, growing from a terrace vert.

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Vachenstein Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Or, a fess azure.

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Vachiery Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess: first, or, an eagle sable crowned or; second, per fess azure and vert, three cows passant or, two and one, collared and belled sable.

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Germany.
Vert, three cows passant or, collared and belled sable.

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Vacquerie Coat of Arms

Germany.
Barry argent and azure, the argent bars charged with six fleurs-de-lis gules, three, two and one.

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Vaelhausen Coat of Arms

Brunswick.
Gules, two bends azure.

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Vahl Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Or, a horse proper walking through water proper.

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Vahlkampf Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, grandquarterly vert plain and argent, a hunting horn sable stringed and banded argent with its mouthpiece toward dexter, overall a bend or charged with three annulets sable; second and third, gules, two swords argent hilted or in saltire, overall a lion rampant gules.

Editorial note: The second and third quarters have both a gules field and a gules lion in the printed source; those tinctures are retained.

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Prussia.
Azure, a ragged oak trunk with three leaves on each side, all or.

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Vahrode Coat of Arms

Thuringia.
Azure, a crescent argent, each horn supporting a star or.

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Valeran Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or, a fess sable; second and third, sable, a double-headed eagle argent.

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Vallade Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Vert, a hill argent surmounted by an eight-pointed star or.

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Vallencour Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, a fess gules between three stars argent in chief and an ibex argent in base, rearing against a hill vert.

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Valois (von) Coat of Arms

Württemberg.
Argent, on a fess azure three fleurs-de-lis or.

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Valta Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Argent, a barrier proper; chapé-ployé azure, the dexter side charged with a star or and the sinister side with a pale argent.

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Valtier de Valmartin Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Gules, a unicorn salient argent.

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Vangerow Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, an arrow argent palewise over a bow or fesswise, with a rose gules in base; a bordure or.

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Varendorf or Varendorp Coat of Arms

Westphalia, Danemark.
Per fess: first, argent, a lion passant gules; second, gules plain.

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Varensel Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, three drinking glasses azure.

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Vargin Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Per fess: first, azure, a demi-woman with flowing hair, vested or and issuing from the division, supporting a fleur-de-lis argent in her dexter hand; second, gules, a bend sinister argent.

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Vargmin Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Gules, six hunting horns or arranged in three pairs in saltire, their mouthpieces downward.

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Varicourt-Albini Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, chequy of sixteen sable and argent, overall a Gothic letter M gules; second, or, a demi-woman wearing a black veil and vested per pale argent and azure, holding an uprooted fir tree vert in her dexter hand; third, azure, a chevron or between two eight-pointed stars argent in chief and a fleur-de-lis argent in base. Overall, an inescutcheon argent charged with a rock sable issuing from the dexter flank, surmounted by an anchor sable in bend sinister, and a chief azure charged with three five-pointed stars argent.

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Varnhagen d'Ense Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Or, a pair of barnacles sable, their ends tied gules.

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Varrentrap Coat of Arms

Thuringia.
Gules, a bend embattled on both edges argent.

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Varssem Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Azure, three bends argent.

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Vasant Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Argent, a wine merchant’s carrying frame gules set bendwise.

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Väschlin Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Per pale: first, argent, a bend gules; second, azure plain.

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Vasel Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per pale: first, gules a demi-eagle or issuing from the partition; second, azure three leafy ears of corn or issuing from a crown or placed on a mount of three coupeaux vert.

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Vasold Coat of Arms

Franconia — lion and wall arms.
Gules, a demi-lion or crowned or issuing from an embattled wall argent masoned sable in base.

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Franconia — pheasant arms.
Argent, a pheasant proper upon a mount sable.

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Vasoli Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, three chalices or in fess, the central chalice supporting an eagle sable.

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Vastel Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Argent, three tournament helmets proper affronty.

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Vatersheim Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Argent, three annulets sable.

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Vaublanc Coat of Arms

France, Bavaria.
Per fess: first, argent, a sun gules between two bunches of grapes proper; second, gules, a lion passant or.

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Ve surnames

Veaux (le) Coat of Arms

East Frisia.
Argent, a crescent or, with two stars or in pale in chief and a calf proper passant upon a terrace vert in base.

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Vechelde Coat of Arms

Brunswick.
Argent, on a bend sable three roses or seeded gules.

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Vechte Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Azure, an anchor or.

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Vegesach Coat of Arms

Prussia, Livonia.
Per pale: first, azure, a wild man of flesh colour, girdled and crowned with ivy, holding a broom in his dexter hand and a sack in his sinister hand; second, per fess, in chief gules, a demi-lion or issuing from the division, and in base argent, two garden lilies azure with stems vert in saltire, upon a terrace vert.

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Veil Coat of Arms

Nördlingen, Bavaria, Swabia.
Per fess sable and or, a griffin counterchanged.

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Velbrück Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Quarterly: first and fourth, barry of eight gules and or; second and third, chequy azure and or, a canton argent charged with three trefoils vert.

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Veldenz (Counts) Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, a lion rampant azure, armed and langued gules, crowned or.

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Velen (Barons) Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Or, three martlets gules in fess.

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Velhorn zu Ursensollen Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or, a bear rampant sable; second, per fess, in chief argent, three leafy branches vert upon a mount of three hillocks gules, and in base azure, three bends argent; third, per fess, in chief argent, three leafy branches vert upon a mount of three hillocks gules, and in base argent, three bends azure.

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Velis Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Barry of eight argent and gules, a canton argent charged with a lion rampant gules.

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Vellnagel Coat of Arms

Württemberg.
Argent, a trefoil vert upon a terrace vert.

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Velmede Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Gules, a bend chequy argent and sable of three rows.

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Velmede de Camen Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, ten ears of grain sable.

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Velten Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per fess: first, argent, an eagle’s head and neck sable, beaked and crowned or, issuing from the division; second, azure, a sinister arm vested gules, the hand of flesh colour holding a sabre argent hilted or in bend sinister. Overall, a fess or; a bordure or.

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Veltheim Coat of Arms

Brunswick, Saxony.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or, three barrulets sable alternating with two barrulets argent; second and third, argent, a ragged tree trunk gules palewise, with a drooping leaf gules on each side. Enté in base azure, two episcopal croziers or in saltire; a bordure or. Overall, an inescutcheon surmounted by a crown and charged with the arms of the city of Brandenburg: azure, an ancient city gate or extending across the width of the inescutcheon, open of the field and surmounted by four turrets or, with an eagle gules in chief overlapping the two central towers.

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Hanover.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or, a fess sable charged with two barrulets argent; second and third, argent, an uprooted tree trunk gules with a drooping leaf gules on each side.

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Swabia.
Or, three bars sable.

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Vely-Jungkennen Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or a chevron sable between three Moor's heads, whose tincture is not specified; second and third, per fess vert and sable, overall a bend or with its ends issuing from two dragons' heads or.

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Vemern Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Argent, a demi-ram sable horned or.

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Venediger Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per fess: first, bendy of four or and sable; second, bendy sinister of four or and sable. Overall, a fess sable charged with a serpent undulating argent, crowned or and supporting a bird proper.

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Prussia.
Sable, a dove rising argent, beaked and legged gules, its wings raised.

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Venningen (Barons) Coat of Arms

Hesse, Baden, Autriche.
Argent, two staves ending in fleurs-de-lis gules in saltire.

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Vequel (formerly Weickl de Wackerstein) Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly gules and or, the first quarter charged with a cross potent couped or surmounted by a staff or in bend.

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Verchmin Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Gules, three pairs of hunting horns or, each pair in saltire with the mouthpieces downward.

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Vercken Coat of Arms

Liège, Rhine Province.
Sable, a fess argent between three lions rampant argent.

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Verdion Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess or and sable, three stars counterchanged, two and one.

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Verdy du Vernois Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Gules, a chevron or with two palm branches vert in chief.

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Verelst Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, argent, two pallets sable alternating with three arrows sable arranged in fess; second and third, azure, a double cup or; a bordure or. Overall, an inescutcheon argent charged with an eagle’s head and neck sable, beaked or and surmounted by a royal crown or.

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Verger (Edle von) Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, vert, a woman vested argent upon a terrace proper, holding a wreath of foliage vert interspersed with flowers; second and third, sable, a cross moline argent. Overall, an inescutcheon gules charged with a crescent argent, its horns toward dexter.

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Verhorst Coat of Arms

Cologne, Rhine Province.
Or, an ox’s head and neck sable.

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Verich de Hochhaus Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: first, argent, a cross of Lorraine pattée or upon a mount proper, flanked by two eagles sable facing one another, each upon a mount proper; second, azure, a greyhound rampant sable upon a mount of three hillocks argent, holding a bucket between its paws, chapé-ployé gules, the sides charged with two lions rampant argent facing one another and crowned or.

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Verius Coat of Arms

Nördlingen, Bavaria, Swabia.
Per fess: first, azure, a hound courant or; second, gules, a star argent.

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Verlet Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per pale: first, sable, a lion rampant to sinister or holding between its paws the hilt of a sword argent hilted or, set palewise; second, or, a griffin azure beaked or, holding a lighted candle proper between its claws.

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Verna Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Per bend sinister: first, argent a cock's head and neck sable, combed and wattled gules, issuing from the division; second, azure a rose gules seeded and barbed or.

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Vernezobre de Laurieux (Barons) Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Azure, a crescent argent over two palm branches or in saltire; on a chief argent, a Prussian eagle issuant.

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Verno de Klevenow Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, azure, a fleur-de-lis argent; second and third, argent, a wing of the Prussian eagle, the wing in the third quarter reversed. Overall, an inescutcheon azure charged with a lion rampant or holding a sword argent hilted or palewise in its sinister paw.

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Verschuer Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Quarterly: first and fourth, argent, two bundles of sticks sable side by side, each fixed to a handle sable shaped like a crutch, with the handle downward; second and third, azure, a chevron chequy gules and argent. Overall, an inescutcheon sable charged with a man in full armour argent, his dexter arm extended and holding a baton of command, his sinister arm resting upon his hip.

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Versen Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Azure, a flying fish argent in bend, crowned or.

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Vescovis Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per pale azure and or, two lions rampant gules facing one another, crowned or and together holding an episcopal crozier or over the partition.

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Vesele Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, azure, a unicorn rampant argent crowned or; second and third, gules, a bend argent.

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Vestenberg Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Vert, a fess argent.

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Vestner Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Azure, a fortified town argent with seven bastions gules, upon a terrace vert intersected by ditches.

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Vett Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, a demi-lion or issuing from a crown or, surmounted by a crescent inverted argent, with a star argent in dexter chief.

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Vette Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, a hammer sable between two roses gules.

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Vetter Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Argent, a man’s bust vested gules, wearing a cap gules banded argent and a falling collar argent.

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Rothenburg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Azure, a sun or.

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Vetterl Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, per pale sable and or, a man in armour counterchanged, his legs apart, holding a baton of command; second and third, argent, two chevrons gules.

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Vetzer Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Azure, three carpenter's squares argent, the two in chief addorsed.

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Vetzer de Geisspitzheim Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Barry dancetty argent and sable.

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Vi surnames

Viatis Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per bend gules and argent, a pointer dog rampant to sinister, sable upon the gules and gules upon the argent, collared or.

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Vicelius Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, argent, a heart gules pierced by two arrows sable in saltire, their points downward; second and third, or, two pilgrim’s staves sable side by side.

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Vichy Coat of Arms

Languedoc, Bourgogne, Bourbonnais, Italie, Bavaria.
Vair plain.

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Vick Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, a star or.

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Vickenhausen Coat of Arms

Lübeck.
Per fess: first, argent, a demi-lion gules issuing from the division; second, or plain.

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Viebahn Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Gules, a ragged oak trunk or set in bend sinister, bearing three leaves vert and three acorns or.

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Viebig Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per pale: first, sable, a lion rampant argent, armed and langued gules and crowned or; second, azure, three eight-pointed stars or in pale; a bordure or.

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Vieheuser Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per fess: first, or, a raven sable holding a ring or in its beak; second, azure, three annulets or interlaced, two and one.

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Viehhauser Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, sable, a partridge rising or, perched upon a tree trunk gules; second and third, or, three roundels gules, two and one.

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Vielroggen Coat of Arms

Brandenburg.
Per bend sinister argent and gules, the gules charged with nine grains of rye or.

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Vieregg Coat of Arms

Bavaria, Mecklenburg, Prussia.
Argent, three buffalo horns sable with their tips downward, often represented as hunting horns, each charged with a nail sable in bend sinister.

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Viescher Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Or, a chevron azure charged with three lozenges gules, the two lower lozenges following the direction of its arms, between three lion’s heads sable, the two in chief facing one another.

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Vieth de Golsenau Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Per pale: first, per fess azure and argent, two banners or upon poles or in saltire over the division, accompanied by three stars or, one and two; second, per fess, in chief or, a fess sable, and in base gules, three cramps argent, two and one, each set in bend sinister.

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Vietinghoff called Scheel Coat of Arms

Courlande, Prussia.
Argent, on a bend sable three escallops or following the direction of the bend.

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Vietsch Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Per pale: first, or, three bends azure; second, azure, a dexter arm in armour sable issuing from the partition, the hand of flesh colour holding a sword argent hilted or in bend.

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Villani (Barons) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Or, a cross pattée gules between four lions rampant gules facing inward. Overall, an inescutcheon argent charged with an eagle sable.

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Villiez Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Tierced in fess: first, azure, a five-pointed star or; second, azure, an escutcheon flanked by two lions rampant or facing one another, the escutcheon per fess, in chief argent, two pallets gules, and in base or, an eagle’s head and neck sable; third, gules, three points argent issuing from the base and directed toward the centre.

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Vilsegger Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per pale: first, or, an eagle sable; second, azure, a lion rampant or crowned or.

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Vilter Coat of Arms

Hamburg.
Per pale: first, argent, three stars sable in pale; second, gules, a carpenter’s square argent.

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Vincenti Coat of Arms

Italie, Baden, Bavaria.
Gules, four conjoined points argent issuing from the dexter flank; overall, a lion rampant or.

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Vinck d’Aspel Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Or, a chevron sable surmounted by a finch gules.

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Vincke Coat of Arms

Rhine Province, Hanover, Silesia, Mecklenburg.
Argent, an axe head gules without a handle.

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Vinther Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, gules, a knight in full armour argent affronty upon a terrace vert, his visor raised and helmet plumed, holding a sword in his dexter hand and a human head affronty in his sinister hand; second and third, azure, a lion sejant or upon a terrace vert, looking backward and resting its dexter paw upon a cartouche argent charged with a star or.

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Vintzelberg Coat of Arms

Brandenburg.
Per pale gules and argent, a bow azure set bendwise over the partition.

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Vir (del) Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, a castle of three towers argent issuing from a sea argent, each tower surmounted by a star or.

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Virmont Coat of Arms

Hesse, Rhine Province.
Quarterly: first and fourth, argent, a bend chequy sable and or, the squares set upright; second and third, per fess, in chief or, a cross moline gules, and in base gules plain. Overall, an inescutcheon per fess: in chief, azure, three helmets argent affronty, two and one; in base, or, a sling gules.

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Virmund Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Argent, a bend chequy or and sable, the squares set upright.

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Vischer Coat of Arms

Germany — beaver arms.
Per fess azure and water argent, overall a beaver rampant proper holding a fish between its teeth.

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Germany — cock arms.
Gules, a cock with its dexter foot raised argent, beaked and legged or.

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Germany — fish and lion quarters.
Quarterly: first and fourth, gules, a bend wavy argent charged with a fish proper following the direction of the bend; second and third, sable, a lion rampant or.

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Germany — lion and bird quarters.
Quarterly: first and fourth, azure, a lion rampant or; second and third, gules, chapé-ployé argent, three birds sable, two and one, the two in chief facing one another.

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Germany — man-at-arms and fish arms.
Gules, a man-at-arms in armour argent upon a terrace vert, his helmet plumed argent, gules and or, a sword at his hip, his dexter hand resting upon a staff proper; chapé-ployé sable, each side charged with a fess wavy argent bearing a fish swimming proper between two stars or, one above and one below the fess, the fish on the dexter side facing sinister.

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Germany — mermaid and dolphin quarters.
Quarterly: first and fourth, azure, a mermaid of flesh colour crowned or, holding a mirror and comb proper, the mermaid in the first quarter facing sinister; second and third, argent, a dolphin azure with its tail raised, swimming upon a sea argent, the dolphin in the third quarter facing sinister.

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Vischl von und zu Schächendorf Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, azure, a griffin or upon a terrace vert, holding two fish azure in its dexter claw; second and third, gules, a river argent in fess charged with five fish swimming proper, two, one and two.

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Vischlein Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Gules, a fish argent palewise, with a star or in dexter chief.

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Visler Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess gules and or, overall two columns gules side by side, crowned or, each issuing from a crown or and surmounted by reeds or.

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Visquard Coat of Arms

East Frisia.
Azure, two fleurs-de-lis or in chief and a rose gules in base.

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Vitales Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, a lion rampant or.

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Vittel Coat of Arms

Augsburg, Bavaria, Swabia.
Or, a chess rook sable surmounted by cock’s feathers sable.

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Vittinghoff called Schell zu Schellenberg Coat of Arms

Westphalia, Rhine Province.
Argent, on a bend sable three roundels or.

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Vitz Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per pale: first, or, a demi-eagle sable issuing from the partition; second, gules, a lion rampant argent holding an olive branch vert.

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Vitzenhagen Coat of Arms

East Frisia.
Gules, a pale argent.

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Vitzthum d'Apolda Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Or, a tree branch sable in bend sinister, bearing three apples gules, two toward dexter and one toward sinister.

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Vitzthum d'Eckstädt Coat of Arms

Saxony — lion and eagle quarters.
Quarterly: first, purpure, a lion rampant to sinister or crowned or, holding a palm branch vert in its sinister paw; second and third, vert, an eagle sable, beaked, legged and crowned or, the eagle in the third quarter looking backward; fourth, purpure, a lion rampant or crowned or, holding a palm branch vert. Overall, an inescutcheon or charged with two pallets gules surmounted by a fess argent.

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Saxony — quartered with firebrand.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or, two pallets gules, overall a fess argent; second and third, or, a firebrand sable in bend sinister, burning in three places, one toward dexter and two toward sinister.

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Saxony — simple arms.
Or, two pallets gules, overall a fess argent.

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Vizanis Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or, an eagle sable crowned or; second and third, argent, a boar passant sable girdled argent within a wreath of trefoil foliage vert, and a chief azure charged with three fleurs-de-lis or.

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Vlatten Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Azure, a star argent.

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Vockerodt Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Azure, a bend sinister or between two stars or.

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Vockwiller Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Or, a mount sable surmounted by two tournament lances sable in saltire, each with a pennon sable attached.

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Voge or Fuck Coat of Arms

Brandenburg.
Upon a field of unspecified tincture, a sickle reversed argent, its handle downward.

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Vogel Coat of Arms

Augsburg, Bavaria, Swabia.
Or, an eagle in profile azure crowned or, its wings and dexter foot raised.

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Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia — bird and roundels.
Argent, three roundels or, two and one, with a bird, its wings spread, perched upon the two upper roundels; the bird’s tincture is unspecified.

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Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia — bird with olive branch.
Gules, a bird rising sable upon a mount vert, holding an olive branch vert in its beak.

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Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia — chevron and crane arms.
Per fess: first, sable, a chevron or between three stars or; second, gules, a crane argent holding its vigilance stone, upon a mount vert.

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Prussia.
Per fess: first, gules, a griffin passant argent; second, azure, three fleurs-de-lis or. Overall, a fess or.

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Thuringia.
Argent, three eagle’s heads and necks sable.

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Vögel Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, barry of four argent and gules; second and third, or, a bird flying in bend sinister with its head downward toward a nest containing three young, the nest upon a mount of three hillocks, all sable.

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Vogel (Edle) Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, azure, an eagle rising in profile sable, looking backward, upon a rock of three peaks argent; second and third, gules, three fleurs-de-lis or.

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Vogel de Falckenstein Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, sable, a lion rampant or, armed and langued gules, the lion in the first quarter facing sinister; second and third, argent, a falcon rising proper upon a rocky terrace proper, holding an olive branch vert in its raised foot, the falcon in the third quarter facing sinister.

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Vogel de Vogelstein Coat of Arms

Saxony, Bavaria.
Per fess: first, azure, three stars argent in bend; second, gules, a cock or upon a mount argent.

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Vogeler Coat of Arms

Hamburg.
Sable, a tree upon a terrace argent, surmounted by a bird rising argent; a bordure compony argent and sable.

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Vogelius Coat of Arms

Germany.
Gules, a falcon upon a mount, all proper.

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Vogelsang Coat of Arms

Pomerania, Mecklenburg.
Per fess argent and gules, the gules rising into the argent in three battlements, each supporting a bird or with folded wings sable; a chief gules; a bordure argent studded with nails proper.

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Prussia.
Azure, a dove argent perched upon an orange-tree branch vert set fesswise and bearing three fruits gules.

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Voget Coat of Arms

Hamburg.
Per fess gules and argent, three roses counterchanged, two and one.

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Vogl Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Azure, an eagle sable in profile with wings raised, standing on a terrace proper.

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Vögl Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per fess: first, sable, a griffin passant or; second, gules, a falcon rising argent, its dexter foot raised.

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Vogl d'Ascholding Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly azure and or. Overall, an inescutcheon gules charged with a hammer argent.

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Vogler Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Per pale: first, sable, a lion rampant or; second, per fess argent and sable, a pale counterchanged.

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Voglmair Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Or, a blackbird sable holding two roses gules in its beak.

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Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, sable, a griffin or; second and third, or, a Moor’s head and neck, their tincture unspecified.

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Voglsanger Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Quarterly: first, per bend gules and argent; second, sable plain; third, azure, three eagles or; fourth, per bend sable and or.

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Vogt Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Gules, a stag springing argent, its neck pierced by an arrow in bend with its point upward, the arrow’s tincture unspecified.

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Saxony.
Quarterly: first and fourth, sable, a lion rampant or; second and third, per fess azure and or, a grenade proper fired gules over the division.

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Vogt d'Ammerthal Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Gules, three knives argent handled or, palewise in fess with their points upward.

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Vogt d'Elspe (Barons) Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Per pale argent and azure.

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Vogt de Berge Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, a wing lowered gules, charged with a trefoil-ended semicircle or.

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Vogt de Dreyss Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, two bars or.

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Vogt de Fronhausen Coat of Arms

Hesse.
Per fess: first, azure a lion passant or; second, lozengy argent and gules.

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Vogt de Hunoltstein de Niederwiesen (Barons) Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Argent, two bars gules accompanied by twelve billets gules laid horizontally, five, four and three.

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Vogt de Sumerau Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Or, a stag’s antler sable.

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Vogt de Westerbach Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Quarterly: first, or, a demi-old man vested sable, crowned with foliage and holding a sabre; second and third, sable, a lion rampant or; fourth, or, a fleur-de-lis sable.

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Vogt of Cologne (formerly the Knights of Eppendorf or Xeppendorf) Coat of Arms

Cologne, Rhine Province.
Barry of twelve or and gules.

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Vogt von der Nersen Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Per fess or and gules.

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Vogtsberg Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Azure, a saltire or.

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Vohenstein Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Gules, three wicker baskets or.

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Vöhlin Coat of Arms

Augsburg, Bavaria, Swabia.
Argent, on a fess sable three letters P argent.

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Voigt Coat of Arms

Bremen.
Per pale: first, azure, two bends sinister sable, each charged with a rose gules; second, or, a lion rampant gules.

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Hanover.
Azure, on a bend sinister or between two stars or, three roses gules seeded argent.

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Voigt de Rieneck Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or, four bars gules; second and third, gules, a saltire or. Overall, an inescutcheon gules charged with a ram passant argent.

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Voigts Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, a merchant’s mark argent shaped as a bar hooked again at both its upper and lower ends, charged with two cramps in bend, one above the other.

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Voigts-Rhetz Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Tierced in pale: first, azure, a merchant’s mark argent shaped like the figure 4, its foot crossed by a bar and ending in a hook toward sinister; second, or, an arrow gules pointing downward; third, azure, three narrow bends sinister or lowered, with a demi-lamb argent in chief issuing from the uppermost bend.

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Voit Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Paly of four sable and argent.

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Voit de Salzburg, formerly Windhelm Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Argent, a fess dancetty sable.

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Voith de Gebhardsreith Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, sable, two pallets argent; second and third, azure, a steep rock proper issuing from base. Overall, an inescutcheon argent charged with a fir tree vert upon a terrace vert.

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Volckamer Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per fess: first, argent, the upper half of a wheel gules; second, azure, a fleur-de-lis argent.

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Völcker Coat of Arms

Franconia.
Azure, a star or.

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Rothenburg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Argent, a thistle flower gules on a stalk leaved vert.

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Volk Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Per fess: first, per pale or and gules, a demi-man in profile vested counterchanged, buttoned gules and wearing an ancient cap gules, holding a halberd argent; second, an embattled wall argent from which the man issues, occupying the lower half of the shield.

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Volkardt Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Argent, three roses gules seeded or.

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Völker Coat of Arms

Rothenburg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per pale argent and sable, a thistle proper over the partition.

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Volkhamer Coat of Arms

Palatinat.
Per fess or and sable, a demi-lion counterchanged holding a hammer gules with a long handle palewise between its paws.

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Volkmann Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Argent, a demi-man vested azure issuing from a mount vert, holding a bow azure in his dexter hand and an arrow azure in his sinister hand.

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Vollandt Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Per bend argent and azure, a lion rampant counterchanged.

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Vollard Coat of Arms

Prussia.
Azure, three bends argent.

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Vollbracht Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Quarterly: first and fourth, argent, a demi-eagle sable issuing from the pale line; second and third, azure, an anchor or.

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Vollenspiet Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Gules, a foal rearing argent.

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Vollgnad Coat of Arms

Silesia.
Sable, a fleur-de-lis or pierced by an arrow argent.

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Vollmann Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Per fess: first, sable, a full moon argent; second, argent plain.

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Volmer de Bernshoffen Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Per fess: first, or a demi-wolf proper collared or issuing from the division; second, gules a demi-wheel or issuing from the division.

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Voln de Wildnau Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Azure, a stag’s head caboshed or.

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Völschew Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Per fess: first, argent, a sturgeon swimming proper; second, gules, an anchor argent with its stock or, its shank entwined by a leafy branch vert bearing two lilies argent at the top.

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Volstedt Coat of Arms

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

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Volz Coat of Arms

Nördlingen, Bavaria, Swabia.
Sable, a Latin cross pattée or.

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Volzke Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Azure, two laurel branches vert in saltire.

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Vörchtel Coat of Arms

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Franconia.
Or, a chevron with curved sides gules.

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Vorholtzer Coat of Arms

Regensburg, Bavaria.
Sable, on a bend sinister or a ragged tree trunk proper.

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Vormann Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Argent, an embattled tower gules roofed gules, with a portcullis or and a single window sable, upon a mount vert; an owl argent perched in the window.

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Vorndron Coat of Arms

Palatinat.
Per fess: first, gules, a demi-lion or issuing from the division and holding a garb or between its paws; second, azure plain.

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Vorrath Coat of Arms

Lübeck.
Azure, a lion’s head and neck or langued gules.

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Vorst (Barons von der) of Lombeck and Gudenau, Burgraves of Drachenfels Coat of Arms

Rhine Province, Autriche.
Argent, five annulets sable in cross, with two birds sable perched upon the two outer annulets, the bird on the dexter side facing sinister.

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Vorst or Forst Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Argent, a fess embattled on both edges sable.

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Vorst or Varst Coat of Arms

Rhine Province.
Gyronny of twelve gules and or, overall an inescutcheon azure.

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Vorwaltner (Edle von, auf und zu) Coat of Arms

Bavaria.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or, two chevrons sable; second and third, azure, a mount of three hillocks vert, each hillock surmounted by a fir tree vert.

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Voss Coat of Arms

Brandenburg.
Argent, three bends gules.

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Pomerania, Saxony, Hanover.
Or, a fox rampant gules.

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Prussia.
Per fess azure and argent, the argent charged with a fox courant proper; a bordure or surrounds the shield.

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Prussia, Bavaria.
Azure, two bends abased or, accompanied to sinister by three stars or in bend.

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Prussia, Mecklenburg.
Quarterly: first and fourth, per fess, the upper part per pale argent and gules and the lower part sable; second and third, argent a demi-eagle of Prussia issuing from the vertical division. Overall an escutcheon argent charged with a fox rampant gules facing sinister.

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Westphalia.
Or, or alternatively argent, a fox gules.

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Voss de Vossenberg Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, azure, a swan or with wings raised between two palm branches vert; second and third, sable, a horse passant argent, caparisoned and bridled azure, ridden by a knight in full armour holding a sword.

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Vossberg Coat of Arms

Pomerania.
Argent, a parrot gules holding an annulet or in its beak and perched upon a ragged staff proper in bend sinister.

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Voth Coat of Arms

Saxony.
Per fess gules and vert, a millrind or set fesswise over the division.

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Vothe Coat of Arms

Holstein.
Azure, a lion rampant or, armed and langued gules.

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Vötzel Coat of Arms

Germany.
Quarterly: first and fourth, argent, a sinister arm vested gules, the hand of flesh colour holding a hammer proper; second and third, gules, an escallop argent.

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Voyth de Berg Coat of Arms

Augsburg, Bavaria, Swabia.
Azure, a demi-man vested gules holding an axe raised, issuing from an embattled wall or masoned sable in base.

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Vr surnames

Vranex Coat of Arms

Germany.
Sable, a lion rampant or upon a mount argent, holding a sword argent.

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Vreven Coat of Arms

Germany.
Per pale: first, sable, a lion rampant or holding between its paws two ragged staves gules in saltire; second, gules, three chevrons argent.

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Vreyen Coat of Arms

Cologne, Rhine Province.
Gules, on a fess argent three roses gules.

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Vrimersheim Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Per fess: first, or, a mastiff courant gules; second, azure, three roses argent.

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Vrints de Treuenfeld Coat of Arms

Frankfurt, Hesse — single rose on the inescutcheon.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or, a double-headed eagle sable surmounted by an imperial crown; second and third, sable, a bend azure charged with a star or between two crescents argent, their horns directed toward dexter chief. Overall, an inescutcheon azure charged with a rose argent on a stalk leaved vert.

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Frankfurt, Hesse — three roses on the inescutcheon.
Quarterly: first and fourth, or, a double-headed eagle sable surmounted by an imperial crown; second and third, sable, a bend azure charged with a star or between two crescents argent with faces, set back to back. Overall, an inescutcheon gules charged with a rose branch vert, leaved vert and bearing three roses argent, one and two.

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Vu surnames

Vulpius Coat of Arms

Germany.
Azure, three bends or.

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Vultejus or Vultée Coat of Arms

Saxony, Hesse.
Argent, a pointer dog’s head and neck sable, langued gules and collared or.

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Vünfhuisen, called Suiverlich Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Or, a chevron sable accompanied in base by a lion passant guardant sable.

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Vuyre de Wys Coat of Arms

Westphalia.
Gules, a lion rampant argent surmounted by a label azure.

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Vy surnames

Vylenbach Coat of Arms

Swabia.
Argent, a cock sable, crested and wattled gules.

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