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THE PRUS HERALDRY

    Under this title Prus Heraldry starts Prusian descendants listing, who seeked their refuge from the Germanic extermination together with thier families which fled to the current Polish territory from the land of the indigenous Prusia. In Poland, over the years, they assimilated and grew into the Polish society - in time, losing and forgetting their national roots. Today there is a incredible growth of interest in these roots, origins and ancestral history.
    The demonstration here is not, the ennoblement of one or more familys. Ennoblement in the Prusians community was not known and there was no division of classes between them. Today we observe unprecedented increase in the interest in their roots, origins and ancestral history. Listing is not an objective demonstration of ennoblement of one or another noble family. Ennoblement of the Prusian nobility was not known, in the society was not segregation. There was no nobility, bourgeoisie, peasants - unlike in the then called Christian countries. The Prusians were free men, and such was the sense of Prusian freedom. If it was not for the physical and mental destruction of Prusia performed by the Europeans and the Roman Catholics of Rome - today the socio-political system of Prusia would be a model for the whole world. The proof of how you can live without politics, using only the laws of nature, moral decency, ethics and many other elementary principles of fairness. Unfortunately, none of this was written and recorded and today seeking any information about Prusia requires painstaking work and an open mind.
    In Poland we have about 20 thousand names with coat of arms - including over 2000 Prussian families. This comparison shows that 10% of the Polish population is descended from the Prusians. Further results from simple math and beyond doubt to be assumed that in the Polish Republic there are approximately 4,000,000 descendants of Prusia. Looking otherwise, taking 10% of coat of arms is about 400 000 , adding 10% of the remaining population non heraldic, it comes out the same we have today around 4 000 000 descendants of Prusia in the Polish community.
    We begin with a review of the armorials. They have a special meaning for us as a Prusian names census - Prusia ennoblement is not the object. In feudal Poland there was only 10% of the population that was free, so that the Prusians in Poland were not the subject to slavery and announced their status as a free people under the motto of Prus. The Statute was honored and not questioned - the Prusians never had to carry "proof of nobility" - the very crest of Prus meant freedom, the same as Polish nobleman. The works of Hedwig Chwalibińskiej “PRUS HOUSE in the Middle Ages" helps us determin heraldic Prusian knights. A certain quote should be made of a fragment of this work.
    "Gradually, more and more frequent publication of judicial record and heraldry from the area of publishing and heraldic judicial record of Mazovia showed that among the immense mass of minor nobility of Mazovia meets knights of foreign names who sued for noble origin, or accosted in rights knight cited on some iura Prussorum. Describes it as a jus Pruthenicum, jus Prussitharum, jus Prusskye or Pruschow right, and they called themselves Prusovye, Prusia, Pruschy, Pruteni ".     The coat of arms of Prus, proclaimed themselves Prusians and no stranger gave them, and Polish heraldry had no choice in the acceptance.
    A lot of the Prusian natives hidden in a typical Polish coats of arms, for example, the same name with several coats of arms and also crest of Prus with the oldest date, then very likely the coat of arms Prus is to be the original attributed to that name. Prusians themselves for various reasons had taken other emblems, replacing the original Prus. For this reason, we have the Prusian names appearing in many coats of arms. There was freedom replacing crests. Typically, it was associated with the family territorial movement, marrying rich without a male heir, negligence, and many other reasons.
    The fact remains, that this phenomenon of so many Prus coat of arms in Polish heraldry, has for Prusai great meaning and importance because heraldry belongs to the historical sciences. Name Prus of the coat of arms often occurs as the first part of the surname. Itself the Prus surname in Poland can be found about 7000 times, and further since the fourteenth century, the Prus coat of arms holds more than 1,000 separate families. In both cases it is the ethnic name of the people exterminated in the thirteenth century. Nowhere do we find such a uniqueness with no family ties, families from different ethnic group, separated geographically, so as to have a common identity. This fact is not only unnoticed by historians but also neglected. Reason is obvious, otherwise it should be for general knowledge that the Prusians are still stay alive and are well.   
    Starting with a review of armorials which are major source of the Prusian list with their names but without intention to prove their nobility. List is not only proof of the Prusian ethnos presence among Polish society, but also that the Prusians are not extinct, historians easily erased them from the living. A lot of Prusian families are hidden in between a typical Polish coats of arms, at the same time their name is present with coat of arms Prus with older date, this indicates their origin. For various reasons Prusians received or exchanged their Prus coat of arms on the other. With great freedom coats of arms were changed. Usually in connection with the family territorial movement, marrying rich wife of family without a male heir, negligence and many other causes.

S. Klec Pilewski

The information is taken from the Polish armorials:

John Charles Dachnowski - Heraldry Royal Prussian nobility of the seventeenth century in 1634
Piotr Malachowski - Collection of the names of the nobility in 1805
Kasper Niesiecki - Polish Armorial 1845
Seweryn Uruski - FAMILY Heraldry of Polish Nobility 1904
Stanislaw Kostka Theodore Alexander Chrząśński - Tables varieties of coats of arms in 1909
Viktor Wittyg - Unknown Polish nobility and its coats of arms Polish noble encyclopedia 1935
Tadeusz Gajl - Heraldry of Polish from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century armorial 2007 that most are taken illustrations of coats of arms.

Andrzejowski

Baworowski

Bebrykowicz

Berkowicz

Białoskórski

Blank

Belina odm.

Biała

Biała odm.

Białynia

Białynia odm.

Brochwicz

Brochwicz II

Brochwicz III

Bronisław

Bysiński

Cackowski

Chodasiewicz

Cholewa

Chomąto

Chrapek

Czarnecki I

Czarnecki II

Czarnecki III

Czarnecki IV

Czarnysz

Cyro

Dąb

Dąb odm.

Dąbrowa

Doliwa Pruska

Dołęga

Dołmat

Drogomir

Elzanowski

Gąsowski

Gliszczyński

Gnadkowski

Gozdawa

Husarzewski

Husarzewski II

Isajkowski

Jabłonowski

Jacyna

Jakowiecki

Janina

Janina odm.

Janowski I

Janowski II

Jasieńczyk

Jastrzębiec

Jelita

Jezierski

Junosza

Klec

Klobar

Kobyliński

Kopycki

Korycki

Kos odm.

Kościerza odm.

Kozłowski

Krzywda odm.

Krzyżanowski III

Kulikowski

Kuszaba Pruska

Lehndorf

Leliwa odm.

Linkiewicz

Lubicz odm.

Lusin

Łabędź

Machwicz

Malski

Milkowski

Misiewski

Mroziński

Mścigniew

Nałęcz Prus

Niezgoda odm.

Nieczuja

Nieczuja Ostrzew

Nieczuja Pruska

Niewiadomski

Odwaga

Ogończyk

Oksza

Opacki

Otwarte Kosy

Orle Nogi

Ostoja Pruska

Ostrzew odm.

Ostrzew Płonący

Palmowski

Panna

Pfeilsdorf

Pielesz odm.

Piotuch

Piotuch odm.

Piszczański

Pobóg odm.

Podjaski

Pomian

Poraj odm.

Porembiński

Pół Podkowy

Pawęza

Prawdzic

Pustoszyński

Radecki

Radomski

Radwan

Rawicz

Reszka

Reytan

Rodzianko

Rokotowski

Rola

Rywocki

Sas Pruski

Skowroński

Skarga

Sławęcin

Smoluchowski

Sobieski

Stawecki I

Stawecki II

Stradomski

Stucki

Sulima

Świeńczyc

Świniarski

Szczepański

Szeliga odm.

Sydorok

Syrokomla odm.

Ślepowron odm.

Tarnawa odm.

Tępa podkowa odm.

Tojpin

Topacz Pruska

Topacz Pruska odm. 1

Topacz Pruska odm. 2

Topacz Pruska odm. 3

Traczobroń

Trzaska

Turbia

Turzyński

Waga

Wąż

Warepski

Wichulski

Wieczwiński I

Wieczwiński II

Wieniawa odm.

Więckowski

Wiśniewski

Wojciechowicz

Wolność

Wolski I

Wolski II

Złota Wolność

ALPHABETIC LIST OF NAMES TO THE PRUSAI ARMORIAL

The case of resignation of the Prusian Rights were under the influence of discrimination, for this case it is an interesting document. The Polish nobility for a long time appealed against the Prusians belonging to the nobility, denied them participation in the landowners Jury and were humiliated in various ways.
Under the influence of the King Casimir the Great issued a decree that allowed to resign from the coat of arms and the names, and to move the privilege of nobility to another purely Polish coat of arms and change the name to "more Polish." Casimir the Great did not stand  in defense of the Prusians but issued a decree facilitating the denationalization and thereby supported the continued Polonization families of Prusians. Despite this on the land of the Polish Crown they remained free, it was not for the Prusians remaining under the German yoke. This is an explanation for many the same Prusian names under different Coat of Arms.
"... Statutes of Casimir the Great in 1347 ruled that for the life of his father's son can not stamp out differently than his father, a stamp, that is to say that after his father's death could change the coat of arms.
In fact, since the days of the Casimir the Great only the eldest son inherited his father's arms in an intact form, while each of the younger sons of his father's arms could change for himself ... "
Decrees of Casimir the Great.
Prussians who want to improve their often difficult fate to give up this and resigned from the law of Prussia (jus Prussitharum) and Becoming ... Poles.

NAME IS FOLLOWED BY THE NAME OF THE ABOVE COAT OF ARMS