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Łabędź (Polish for "Swan") is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by many noble families known as szlachta in Polish in medieval Poland and later under the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, branches of the original medieval Duninowie Grand Duke family (Łabędzie) family as well as families connected with the Clan by adoption.

History

Blazon

Gules a swan passant Argent beaked and legged Or.

Notable bearers

Notable bearers of this coat of arms have included:

• Duninowie Grand Duke family
  • Piotr Włostowic (1080–1153)
  • Marcin Dunin Grand Duke archbishop
  • Hrabia, Grand Duke (Count, Grand Duke) Rodryg Dunin (1870–1928)
  • Hrabia Antoni Dunin (1907–1939)
• Teodor Bujnicki
• Mszczuj of Skrzynno
• Lucjan Żeligowski
• August Zaleski
• Krzysztof Zawisza^{[citation needed]}
• Stanislav Szemet^{[citation needed]}
• Michail Szemet (Шемет)^{[citation needed]}

Gallery

• 
  Counts Dunin-Borkowski
• 
  Byliński
• 
  Chróścieski
• 
  Gromadzki

Szpot variations

• 
  Szpot, standard version
• 
  Szpot I a
• 
  Szpot I b
• 
  Szpot I c
• 
  Szpot I d
• 
  Szpot I e
• 
  Szpot II
• 
  Szpot II
• 
  Szpot II a

See also

• Polish heraldry
• Heraldic family
• List of Polish nobility coats of arms

Bibliography

• Tadeusz Gajl: Herbarz polski od średniowiecza do XX wieku : ponad 4500 herbów szlacheckich 37 tysięcy nazwisk 55 tysięcy rodów. L&L, 2007. ISBN 978-83-60597-10-1.
• Herby szlachty polskiej, S. Górzyński, J.Kochanowski, Warszawa 1992.

References