Lubicz (Luba, Lubow, Łuba) is a Polish nobility coat of arms.
History The earliest known depiction of the arms is a seal of 1348 belonging to Przedbór, starosta of Kuyavia. A second seal, of 1438, belonged to Paweł of Grąbczewo, a canon of Płock. Some heraldists have suggested that Lubicz developed from the Podkowa ("horseshoe") arms by the addition of two crosses.
Legend An armorial legend holds that in 1190 a skirmish took place between Mazovian knights and the Prussians beside a river then called Lubicz, now the Drwęca; for his courage and for capturing the enemy commander, a knight bearing the Pobóg arms was granted arms of his own, named after the river. The account is a heraldic legend rather than a documented event: the earliest surviving depiction of the arms postdates it by more than 150 years. Blazon Azure, a horseshoe argent, heels to base, surmounted by a cross pattée argent, and a second cross pattée within the horseshoe. Crest: three ostrich feathers. Mantling: azure lined argent.
Kasper Niesiecki, drawing on Bartosz Paprocki, Szymon Okolski and Marcin Bielski, described the arms as "a horseshoe arranged as in Dąbrowa or Pobóg, with two crosses, one on the top of the horseshoe, the other within it; the field should be blue, the crosses white, on the helm three ostrich feathers".
Notable bearers Notable bearers of this coat of arms include: House of Wróblewski Jerzy Wróblewski Andrzej Wróblewski Władysław Wróblewski Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski House of Żółkiewski Stanisław Żółkiewski Gruszecki family Agafya Grushetskaya - Tsaritsa of Russia Adam Adamandy Kochański Oscar Milosz (Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz) Czesław Miłosz Ściapan Niekraševič Nikolai Gogol Zygmunt Lubicz Zaleski Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka (stage name Ted Knight) Witold Lesiewicz Elżbieta Szydłowska House of Wojtowicz Martin Zaniewski Piotr Tylicki (1543–1616), Polish bishop
Gallery
Related coat of arms Krzywda coat of arms Pobóg coat of arms
See also Polish heraldry Heraldic family List of Polish nobility coats of arms House of Wojtowicz
References
External links Lubicz Coat of Arms, the altered ones and the bearers.
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