| Ślepowron | |
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 Battle cry: Bojno, Bujno |
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| Alternative names | Bojno, Bujno, Pesze, Korwin, Corvin, Ślepy Wron |
| Earliest mention | 1224, 1238 as Ślepowron |
| Towns | Ruda-Huta Lublin Voivodeship |
| Families | 530 names altogether: Adziewicz, Andziewicz, Audziewicz, Awdziewicz, Bagieński, Bagiński, Bagnicki, Bagnicki, Bańkowski, Baraniecki, Barański, Barszczewski, Bejnarowicz, Berliński, Bibełowicz, Bigoszewski, Bogiński, Bogusławski, Bohniński, Bolesza, Bonasewicz, Bonasiewicz, Bonaszewicz, Borzymowski, Boski, Bossowski, Bratkowski, Broleński, Bronicki, Brotkowski, Browiński, Bruszewski, Brużewicz, Brzeski, Brzostowski, Buceń, Buczeń, Buczyński, Bujnicki, Bujniewicz, Bujno, Bujwen, Bukon, Bystry, Chamera, Chaliński, Charbowski, Chełmoński, Chodzewski, Chryzoln, Chrzczonowicz, Chrzczonowski, Chudzewski, Ciarnowski, Ciecierski, Ciprski, Czaczkowski, Czajkowski, Czapkowski, Czarnomski, Czartoszewski, Czekotowski, Czerwiakowski, Dachnowski, Daczewski, Darowski, Darowski Werycha, Demby, Dęby, Dobrowolski, Dowdorowicz, Dowkont, Drągowski, Drąsutowicz, Drążewski, Drodzieński, Drongutowicz, Drozdziński, Drożeński, Drużyński, Drygalski, Dubiski, Duchna, Duchnowski, Dudorowicz, Dworakowski, Dybowski, Dziczkaniec, Dziekuński, Dzięcielski, Dziwulski, Faśkiewicz, Fiałkowski, Fijałkowski, Filichowski, Filipowski, Filochowski, Florianowicz, Foczyński, Frankowski, Frąckiewicz, Gajewski, Garbaszewski, Gawkowski, Gąsiewski, Gąsiorowski, Gąsowicz, Gęsiewski, Giegnatki, Giegniątko, Gierdziejewski, Gierlach, Glinka, Glińka, Gliński, Głuszczyński, Głyszyński, Goczanowski, Golimunt, Gorka, Gorodelski, Gosiewski, Górnicz, Górski, Grochowarski, Grodecki, Gronkowski, Grotowski, Gryziewicz, Gumkowski, Gumowski, Gut, Gutkowski, Gutowski, Gutt, Hałuszczyński, Harbaszewski, Harbowski, Hładunowicz, Horbaszowski, Horodziński, Idziński, Idźkowski, Jagniątko, Jagoszewski, Jaguszewski, Jarczowski, Jarmusz, Jarmuszewicz, Jaruszelski, Jaruzelski, Jarużelski, Jasiewski, Jastrzębski, Jaszewiski, Jaszewski, Jeruzalski, Josiewski, Jórski, Junkiewicz, Jurgielewicz, Jurski, Jurzyc, Jurzyk, Juszkiewicz, Juszkowicz, Juściński, Kabok, Kabot, Kalenczyński, Kaluchniewicz, Kamieński, Karnecki, Karulewicz, Karwowski, Kępkowski, Kierbedź, Kijuć, Klimaszewski, Klimkowski, Klis, Klusza, Kłopotowski, Kochanowski, Kochnowski, Kochowicz, Kokoszczyński, Kolnarski, Komarczewski, Komarczowski, Komarzewski, Kamecki, Komocki, Kończyński, Kończyski, Kopcewicz, Kopciewicz, Kopczyński, Kordecki, Korwin, Kosakiewicz, Kossak, Kossakiewicz, Kossakowski, Kostecki, Kościanka, Kownacki, Kozłowski, Krasiński, Krasowski, Krassowski, Krażyński, Krokowski, Kroszczyński, Krukowski, Krupiański, Krzemieniewski, Krzewski, Krzymowski, Księżopolski, Kuczkowski, Kuczyński, Kudelski, Kukowski, Kukszyn, Kulesza, Kuleszka, Kuleszyński, Kulka, Kurp, Kurpiewski, Kwir, Kwiro, Lamiecki, Lenarski, Lenart, Leniewicz, Leontowicz, Leźnicki, Ligiejko, Likowski, Liniewicz, Lipczyński, Lipiak, Liping, Lipink, Lissowski, Lubowicki, Lutosławski, Lutostański, Ładnowski, Łaniecki, Łaściszewski, Ławrynowicz, Łopuski, Łowicki, Łowiecki, Łowkiański, Łupianka, Łupieński, Łupiński, Łykoski, Łykowski, Maleciński, Malewski, Malinowski, Małujewicz, Marecki, Marmakiewicz, Matański, Matecki, Maternicki, Medenicki, Medunicki, Meduniewski, Medyniecki, Miełkowski, Mierkowski, Mieroszewski, Mieszerawski, Mikucki, Mikuta, Milejko, Milejkowicz, Milewski, Mileyko, Milkowski, Miłkowski, Miłobęcki, Miłobędzki, Miłodrowski, Mirkowski, Miroszewski, Miskiewicz, Miśkiewicz, Młodziejowski, Mnichowicz, Moczydłowski, Morzkowski, Mosicki, Mosiecki, Mościcki, Mościeczny, Mrokowski, Mrowczewski, Mrzeski, Mrzewski, Nasierowski, Nasiorowski, Nasurowski, Nasutowski, Niemierko-Popławski, Niesiorowski, Niestoimski, Niestojemski, Nosek, Nowakowski, Nowodzielski, Nowosielski, Nowosilski, Oglęcki, Oględzki, Olizarowicz, Olszewski, Ostrowski, Pabrez, Padlewski, Padlewski-Skorupka, Pański, Papa, Papieński, Papiński, Pawłowski, Paździerski, Perka, Perkowski, Petrozolin, Pęsa, Pęski, Pęza, Pienicki, Pietnicki, Pięta, Piętka, Pigienicki, Piotrowski, Piski, Piskowski, Piszkowski, Pniewski, Podczaski, Podernia, Pokłoński, Pomianowski, Popławski, Potyralski, Powiatowski, Prątnicki, Przełomiński, Przełomski, Przestrzelski, Przyborowski, Przyłucki, Przyłuski, Przysiorowski, Puchalski, Pudernia, Puklicz, Pułacki, Pułaski, Puławski, Puzielewicz, Pyszczowski, Raabe, Rabe, Raczyński, Rajzner, Ramański, Ramocki, Ratyński, Rayczyński, Rączka, Relidzyński, Rembowski, Rębowski, Rodliński, Rogalski, Roman, Romański, Romaszkowicz, Romejko, Romeyko, Romocki, Rosalski, Rosiński, Rossalski, Rostocki, Roszeyko, Rozanowicz, Rożanowicz, Rudziewski, Rumocki, Rybałtowski, Rybczyński, Rybicki, Rychliński, Ryczywolski, Rząca, Rzączyński, Rzońca, Sarnacki, Sarnecki, Sarnicki, Sarnowiec, Sawicki, Sczucki, Sergijewski, Siedmiogrodzki, Siehiejewicz, Sierhejewicz, Sierhiejewicz, Ścibor, Sipniewicz, Sipniewski, Siromski, Skibniewski, Skorupka, Skrodzki, Skwierczyński, Skwirczyński, Sławomier, Słogocki, Sobolewski, Sokołowski, Sokowicz, Spadowski, Spandowski, Starzyński, Stąpaczewski, Suchodolec, Suchodolski, Suchopiątek, Sulczyński, Symborski, Syromski, Szabuniewicz, Szczucki, Szemborski, Szempleński, Szempliński, Szeotyc, Szepietowski, Szeplewski, Szerenos, Szeronos, Szlubowski, Szmurło, Szwander, Szymanowski, Szymanowski Korwin, Szymański, Szymborski, Śladowski, Ślepowroński, Ślubowski, Śniciński, Śnieciński, Świderski, Święcki, Taraskowski, Taraszkowski, Tatarowski, Terajewicz, Terajowicz, Topczewski, Trembicki, Trębicki, Trojnicki, Truskolaski, Truskolawski, Truskoleśny, Truszkowski, Trzciński, Trzyciński, Tyborowski, Tyszarski, Ugoski, Ujazdowski, Ulanowski, Wasianowicz, Wąsowicz-Dunin, Wąż, Wdziekuński, Wereszczatyński, Wędrychowski, Wiercieński, Wierciński, Wierzbicki, Wierzbicki Korwin, Wilkęski, Wilkowski, Wojno, Wojsiatycz, Wojsznarowicz, Wolski, Woysiatycz, Wroblewski, Wróblewski, Wróżbita, Wyczałkowski, Wyczółkowski, Wyrzykowski, Wyskowski, Wyszkowski, Wyżykowski, Xiężopolski, Zabawski, Zaleski, Zatorski, Zawadzki, Zawadzki, Zawałkiewicz, Zawidzki, Zawidzski, Zbyszyński, Zelachowski, Zera, Zieleznicki, Zieleźnicki, Zimnoch, Złotogórski, Zuk, Zyra, Żelachowski, Żera, Żmijewski, Żmijowski, Żuk, Żyłłok, Żyra |
Ślepowron is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Blazon
A black raven with its wings somewhat extended for flight, is facing to the right of the shield. It stands atop a cross.
The cross is on the shoulders of a horseshoe which stands erect with its heels at the bottom. In the raven's beak, it holds a gold ring.
The shield is blue and the horseshoe silver. On a crowned helmet stands a raven similar to the one in the shield.
History
Adding the Horseshoe to the Raven
Baroque writers agree on a rather romantic version of how this clan shield was acquired in its present form: When a handsome knight from one of the Korwin families had the good fortune to marry a beautiful daughter of the Pobog clan, he redesigned the arms by adding to The Horseshoe and cross of his bride's coat of arms to his own ancestral Raven with A Ring.
Origin of the Raven
The Raven symbol itself is much older, and for its origin there are many "history-legends" whose veracity is often doubtful. These are nearly the same for Slepowron and the Korwin and the coat of arms (the Korwin coat of arms has a similar raven, but standing on a log rather than of horseshoe).
Sarmatian Totem
For some reason, an old Polish aristocratic clan, of Sarmatian origin, chose the Raven as its symbol - possibly as its "Rodnidze", the "Totem-spirit of the Clan".
Such clans, pagans at the time, far predated the conversion of Poland to Christianity and the rise of the Piast Dynasty's kingdom.
The 1224 Grant
Many centuries later, a raven is attested in a grant of privilege to Warzęta Korwin z Ślepowrony, from Duke Konrad I of Masovia, given at Warsaw in 1224.
The "Roman-Hungarian legend"
The actual Korwin shield, with the ring in the raven's beak, came to Poland from Hungary, almost two centuries later, via the so-called Roman-Hungarian legend - under the influence of ancient culture and vivid contacts between members of the Polish nobility and the Hungarian Royal Court.
The Roman Part
According to ancient Roman sources, a distinguished Patrician named Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, of the Roman Gens Valerii, had while on the battlefield accpted a challenge to single combat issued to the Romans by a barbarian warrior of great size and strength.
Suddenly, a raven flew from a trunk, perched upon Valerius's helmet, and began to attack his foe's eyes with its beak so fiercely that the barbarian was blinded, and the Roman could beat him easily. In memory of this event, Valerius got the agnomen Corvinus (from Corvus, "Raven").
Valerius was subsequently selected to be Caesar Augustus' colleague in the consulate.
The Hungrian/Polish Part
In the Kingdom of Hungary, the Wallachian-Hungarian family of Korvin had flourished since the 1400s. They claimed descent from Valerious - who, according to the interpretation of Baroque authors, became a big landowner on the Dacian-Pannonian frontiers, the future Hungary - which is of very doubtful veracity.
It is true that Janos Hunyadi and his son, Matthias Corvinus Hunyadi, King of Hungary and Bohemia, called themselves "Corvinus" and had their coins minted displaying a "raven with a ring".
The epithet Corvinus was coined by Matthias' biographer, the Italian Antonio Bonfini, who claimed that the Hunyadi family descended from Marcus Valerius Corvinus. This connection, spurious or not, was later taken over by the Polish aristocrats connected with the Hungarian family.
King Matthias's Ring
In addition to the above, the Silesian Annals tell that a raven carried off the ring which King Matthias, (who was also ruler of the Duchy of Głogów, and Suzerain of all the Silesian duchies), had removed from his finger. Matthias chased the bird down and slew it, retrieving the ring - and in commemoration of this event, he took the Raven as a symbol for his signet sign.
Notable bearers
Notable bearers of this coat of arms include:
- Augustyn Kordecki
- Kazimierz Pułaski
- Ignacy Mościcki President of Poland (1926-1939)
- Wojciech Jaruzelski President of Poland (1989-1990)
- Szymon Marcin Kossakowski
- Wincenty Krasiński (in France: comte Vincent Corvin-Krasinski)
- Kazimierz Krasiński
- Jan Dobrogost Krasiński
- Jan Kazimierz Krasiński
- Zygmunt Krasiński
- Tadeusz Gosiewski
- Grzegorz Skwierczyński
- Przemysław Skwirczyński
- Karol Szymanowski
- Henryk Lowmianski
- Chris Korwin-Kuczynski (21st century) Canadian politician
- Przemysław Gosiewski Deputy Prime Minister of Poland (2007)
- Otto von Corvin-Wierzbicki
Related coats of arms
- Korwin coat of arms
- Czarnowron coat of arms
- Kurowski coat of arms
- Materna coat of arms
- Sandrecki coat of arms
See also
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