page_title: Jastrzębiec coat of arms
section_title: Blazon
hierarchical_section_title: Jastrzębiec coat of arms / Blazon
caption_attribution_description: English: Signet ring Signet ring made in silver with Jastrzębiec coat of arms. This signet ring belonged to Czesław Jankowski h. Jastrzębiec. Hand made in 1943 at Nazi Prisoners of War Camp (for Polish officers). The silver was got from an old Polish coin and carved by one fellow prisoner. Yet the coat of arms is almost deleted (because silver is a soft metal), the spirit of resistance against who denied ancient Polish history and culture that impregnate this ring is remarkable.
context_page_description: Jastrzębiec is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families prior to and during the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and is still used to the present day. During World War II and the communist reform, many families lost their commonwealth status, as well as their right to their manors and sometimes vast lands.
context_section_description: The following is from the classic heraldic reference Herbarz Polski, by Kasper Niesiecki, S. J., Leipzig edition, 1839-1846. In this book, for each herb (clan shield or coat of arms) the blazon, or verbal description of the arms, is first given in authentic heraldic style, followed by a translation from the Polish description by Niesiecki.
  Arms: azure, a horseshoe reversed, between its branches, a small cross patée en abime, both or. Upon a wreath of the colors mantled of his liveries whereon is set for a crest: out of a ducal coronet, a hawk proper, wings surgent, belled and jessed, holding in its dexter talons, a charge of the shield.
  On a shield in a blue field is a gold horseshoe, with its heels pointed straight up, and in its center a cross; on the helmet over a crown is a goshawk with its wings slightly raised for flight, facing the right side of the shield. On its legs are small bells and a leather strap, in its right talon it holds a horseshoe with cross, like those on the shield.
  In heraldry, the right and left sides of a shield are considered from the standpoint of the bearer—i. e., the one holding the shield. His right would be your left and vice versa. The tinctures (colors) are as follows: azure = blue; gules = red; sable = black; or = gold; argent = silver; and vert = green. All charges (pictures) on a shield are assumed to be facing dexter (bearer's right side) unless otherwise specified. In Polish heraldry, all animals or birds are assumed to be in their natural coloring unless otherwise specified.
caption: Jastrzebiec coat-of-arms signet-ring. This signet ring belonged to Czesław Jankowski h. Jastrzębiec. Hand made in 1943, with silver from an old Polish coin, by a prisoner at a Nazi-German prisoner-of-war camp for Polish officers.
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