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From: "Leon Stevens" <>
Subject: RE: HERBARZ-D Digest V03 #214
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:12:03 -0400


> Five ostrich feathers that symbolized the Godzdawa crest <

The Gozdawa crest is usually depicted as a sheaf of peacock feathers
with the double lily superimposed upon it. Two variants substitute 3
ostrich plumes. One variant known to Ostrowski had 5 ostrich plumes, but
he doesn't know which family used it. Five ostrich plumes could be the
crest of hundreds of other coats of arms. No surviving medieval Gozdawa
specimens have a crest. The familiar Gozdawa peacock crest emerges in
the 16th century. According to Leszczyc the Pacewicz family is a branch
of the Pac family, whose crest had a sheaf of peacock feathers.


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