It is not known whether or not he brought the coat of arms to kiel from his parents' house in Osnabr ck. The art of Hunting was reserved for the feudal class which supplied itself with expensive animals from all over the world via Grand Fauconniers . It was not unusual for hunting falcons to serve as the objects of fealty. All coats of arms remained unchanged as regards contents right up until today and only formally yielded to taste during the respective periods. Silver hunting falcon with red cowl and right talon raised at a right angle with left talon on a brown branch growing out of the right edge of the shield.
Falcon looks left and is upon a blue shield.
The animal of the crest is repeated upon a helmet, turned to the side, its visor raised with the visor bars bulging, between two outspread wings, divided in blue and silver. After the darkness is dispelled, brighter light follows. The slogan of the coat of arms, on the one hand, refers literally to the removal of the hunting falcon's red cowl at the beginning of the hunt, while, on the other hand, one might surmise from it the hope for an end to post- Reformation chaos. The crest bestowed in connection with this advancement to nobility shows a silver lion on blue holding a green wreath in his raised right forepaw. The Legend of the Falcon Crest Once upon a time a very demanding German princess had two ladies in waiting, Isidore and Adelaide, and she loved them very much.