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Janina is a Polish nobility clan coat-of-arms. Borne by several noble families descended in the-male line from the medieval lords of Janina (the eponyms of the clan) or legally adopted into the clan upon ennoblement.

History

Janina is the only coat of arms represented on the sky as constellation - Scutum. It was created by Johannes Hevelius in 1684,^[1] and originally named it Scutum Sobiescianum (the shield of Sobieski) to commemorate the victory of the Polish forces led by King John III Sobieski in the Battle of Vienna in 1683. Later, the name was shortened to Scutum.

Blazon

The coat of arms was used in a variety of tinctures and designs, varying greatly from family to family. All of them depicted what is described in the alternative names for the Janina, that is a "field in a field" or a "shield within a shield".

Notable bearers

Most notable bearers of this coat of arms include:

• members of the Sobieski family, including King Jan III Sobieski and Katarzyna Sobieska (pictured)

Gallery

Variations

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  Coat of arms of Jan III Sobieski as the King of Poland
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  Portrayal of Sobieski's royal crown, Gdańsk.
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  Scutum Sobiescianum- Johannes Hevelius drew the constellation in Uranographia, his celestial catalogue in 1690.
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  Variation of Janina
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  Warepski vel Warępski, variation of Janina
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  Chunowski, variation of Janina
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  Jurgielewicz, variation of Janina
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  Axt, a Silesian coat of arms, variation of Janina according to Alfred Znamierowski^[2]
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  Zgraja, variation of Janina

Cities and Villages

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  Coat of arms of Wilanów District in Warsaw

Notes and references

Bibliography

• Tadeusz Gajl: Herbarz polski od średniowiecza do XX wieku : ponad 4500 herbów szlacheckich 37 tysięcy nazwisk 55 tysięcy rodów. L&L, 2007, s. 406–539. ISBN 978-83-60597-10-1.

See also

• Scutum (constellation)
• Polish heraldry
• Heraldic family
• List of Polish nobility coats of arms

External links

• The Sobieskis' Janina Coat of Arms at the Wilanów Palace Museum
• J. Lyčkoŭski. "Belarusian Nobility Coats of Arms". (in English)
• "Armorial of Belarusian Nobility". (in English)