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Subject: Peacock Feathers
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:19:35 EDT


Hello,

Interesting enough the Odrowaz Coat of Arms also has three peacock feathers.
 Do you know if this has any association, or is it just that Peacock feathers
were popular?

Inquiring minds would like to know. :-)

Margaret Odrowaz-Sypniewski, B.F.A., Clan Malcolm, PGSA, PGSM.
<A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/9538/syptab.html">The Sypniewski Family-Table of Contents</A>
<A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/auch2000/index.html">Auch 2000's Scottish Pages </A>  

In a message dated 8/5/03 10:12:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> > Five ostrich feathers that symbolized the Godzdawa crest <
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> 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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