Korwin coat of arms

Korwin
Battle cry: no battle-cry
Details
Alternative names	Corvus, Corvinus, Corvin, Kruk, Bujno, Ślepowron odmiana (derivative) Korwin
Earliest mention	1224 as Bujno or Ślepowron 1490 as Korwin proper 1526 in the Land of Cracow and Sandomiers
Towns	Głogów, former Duchy of Głogów now Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Zwoleń County former Duchy of Masovia now Masovian Voivodeship
Families	218 surnames available on Tadeusz Gajl’s Polish Heraldry 2009/2010.[1]Korwin Abramik, Bachowski, Bagiński, Barański, Baszucki, Benkowski, Berengowicz, Bieńkowski, Bierzyński, Bieżyński, Binkowski, Boczkowski, Botowic, Botowicz, Bronicki, Bujalski, Bujnowski, Bunkowski, Buynowski, Cetnerski, Chłędowski, Chromecki, Chrzanowski, Chyczewski, Czarnolaski, Czopowski, Dabkowicz, Dalkowicz, Danisewicz, Danisiewicz, Dmochowski, Dobkiewicz, Doliński, Drozdowski-Meloch, Droziński, Dudorowicz, Dudrewicz, Dunaj, Dworakowski, Dzbański, Dzięcielski, Filiborn, Gacki, Gadzki, Gącki, Gąsiorowski, Gęsicki, Ginwił, Ginwiłł, Ginwiłłowicz, Gładyszewski, Gosiewski, Gronostajski, Grosman, Grozmani, Grudzina, Gutowski, Haraziński, Hollo, Hrudzina, Jachimowicz, Jagodyński, Jagodziński, Jagusiński, Jagużyński, Jahodyński, Jahołkowski, Jakimowicz, Jastrzębski, Jaszewski, Jawdyński, Kaftanowski, Kalinowski, Kamianowski, Kamiański, Kaminowski, Kamionowski, Karłowicz, Kilarski, Kirbut, Klimowski, Kłosieński, Kłosiński, Kochanowicz, Kochanowski, Kojrowicz, Komar, Komoński, Korotkiewicz, Korwin, Korwin-Piotrowski, Kosakowski, Kossakowski, Kossenda, Kostecki, Koszulko, Koyrowicz, Kozniecki, Krasiński, Kręczow, Krompach, Kropiwnicki, Kruczaj, Kruczkowski, Kruk, Krukowicz, Krukowski, Krupicki, Kunachowicz, Kurkowski, Lipczyński, Lisowski, Lissowski, Losniewski, Lutostański, Łośniewski, Maleczyński, Malenczyński, Maliszkiewicz, Małaciewski, Małaczeński, Małaczewski, Małaczyński, Małęczyński, Metelski, Michalski, Mietelski, Milewski, Młodnicki, Moczulski, Moczydłowski, Morzkowski, Mroczkowski, Niskiewicz, Nowicki, Odelski, Odolski, Olszewski, Pannenko, Pawłowski, Pczycki, Perkowski, Pieślak, Piotrowski, Pluszczewski, Pluszczowski, Pluta, Pluto, Płuszczewski, Podgurski, Podrez, Polski, Prendowski, Prędowski, Proniewicz, Proniewski, Przełomiński, Przyłuski, Ptuszczewski, Pusz, Roszkowski, Sakiewicz, Sakowicz, Sarnewicz, Seredyński, Skirwin, Słobodziński, Smolak, Sobierajski, Sobolewski, Sołkowski, Sozański, Starzyński, Sujkowski, Surwiłło, Suykowski, Szawroński, Szawrowski, Szczefanowicz, Szuwalski, Szwaroński, Szwedowicz, Szwedowski, Świderski-Bałaszewicz, Tołokiewicz, Topczewski, Truskolaski, Truskolawski, Truskoleśny, Upnicki, Wakar, Wałejko, Wasilowski, Wasiłowski, Wendrychowski, Wędrychowski, Wierzbicki, Wojszyński, Wolimer, Wolmer, Wołejko, Wołk, Womer, Woronowicz, Woronowski, Wronowicz, Wróblewski, Wyszkowski, Wyżewski, Wzderski, Zaniwicki, Zawistowski, Zbożniakiewicz, Zienkowski, Żarnowiecki, Żorawski, Żórawski, Żyliński. More names, 1 on Znamierowski’s work,[2] Filleborne. 1 on Ornatowski.com/Rodziny,[3] Lipowicz. 2 on Jurzak’s,[4] Prędkowski, Szymanowski. 2 on Słownik gen.,[5] Terajewicz, Terajowicz. 4 surnames without verification on Polish armorials: Kłopotowski, Korwin-Mikke, Noskowski z Noskowa, Szwedkowski

Korwin - is a Polish Coat of Arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

History

Korwin II coat of arms. Variation (odmiana)

Korwin III coat of arms. Variation (odmiana). (more)

Korwin coat of arms with alternative crest, after Zygmunt Gloger's Encyclopedia staropolska old drawing. Remark the Ślepowron like raven on crest

Korwin Jaguschinski count (Germanization. Perhaps Jagodyński, Jagodziński, Jagusiński, Jagużyński or Jahodyński)

Korwin coat of arms in Polish jewelry. (Signet ring)

Korwin coat of arms in Baranów Sandomierski Castle

Coat of arms of Matthias Corvinus in Olomouc, Moravia

Count Jaguschinski’s Korwin coat of arms (Germanization; perhaps Jagodyński, Jagodziński, Jagusiński, Jagużyński or Jahodyński), Polish Nobleman, entitled as Count in the Russian empire in 1731; according to Carl Arvid von Klingspor’s Baltic Armorial

The triumph of Marcus Valerius Corvinus in the pediment of the Krasiński Palace in Warsaw

Coat of arms of Głogów. The raven appears on the city's seal on 17 March 1490. When the Corvinus ruled the Duchy of Glogów, they granted their crest to the city

Coat of arms of Zwoleń County. Over the S (Latin initial for Svolen) is a raven which honors Jan Kochanowski of Korwin, landowner in this county (Czarnolas)

Coat of arms of Korwin - Escutcheon

The Korwin and Slepowron history-legends are really, almost the same. For some reason, an old Polish chivalry clan, from Sarmatian breeding, chose the Raven as his symbol. Perhaps was his “Rodnidze”, the “Totem-spirit of the Clan” because those clans, then pagans, were more ancients than the christening of Poland and the rise of the Kingdom of Piast Dynasty. Many centuries later, we know about it from a grant of privilege to Wawrzęta (or Wawrzyniec - Lawrence) Korwin z Ślepowrony from Duke Konrad I of Masovia, at Warsaw in 1224, according to Jan Długosz, Bartosz Paprocki, Count Juliusz Ostrowski, etc. The authors understand the Korwin “proper” actual drawing came to Poland from Hungary, more or less two centuries later. The so-called Roman-Hungarian legend of Korwin starts in the 16th century under the influence of ancient culture and vivacious contacts between Polish nobility and Hungarian Royal Court. In that kingdom, the Wallachian-Hungarian family of Korvin had flourish in 1400, and a baroque legend argues them descending from one of the Roman Gens Valerii. At one time there was in Rome a distinguished tribune named Marcus Valerius Corvus, a Roman general who got the agnomen Corvinus in the following manner: In 349BC, the Roman Army moved against the Barbarians, and before the battle began, a warrior of great size and strength came forward and challenged anyone in the Roman cavalry to single combat, whereupon Valerius stepped forward. Just as he was about to engage the barbarian, a raven flew from a trunk, perched upon Valerius's helmet, and began to attack his foe’s eyes with its beak so fiercely that the warrior was blind. With this, the Roman beat him easily, and from that time, Valerius was called Corvinus (from Corvus, "Raven"). His descendant, Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (64BC-8AD) was chosen to the Roman consulate with Caesar Augustus and the baroque authors understand he became a big landowner in the Dacian-Panonian frontiers. If however any of his supposed Hungarians descendants, and a Polish branch of this family carried on the name, nobody really knows… It is true that Janos Hunyadi and his son Matthias Corvinus Hunyadi, King of Hungary and Bohemia, called themselves "Corvinus" and had their coins minted displaying a “raven with a ring”. The epithet Corvinus was coined by Matthias' biographer, the Italian Antonio Bonfini, who claimed that the Hunyadi family descended from Marcus Valerius Corvinus.

The Hungarian legend relates that when a raven carried off the ring King Matthias had removed from his finger he chased the bird down and slew him retrieving the ring, and in commemoration of this event, he took the raven as a symbol for his signet sign. Really, this coat of arms was used by Matthias's ancestors far earlier than he did. His own father John Hunyadi, voivode of Transylvania and regent of Hungary, is known as Ioannes Corvinus in Medieval Latin. In addition the Silesian Annals (other version of this legend) tell that was not the king himself who shot the raven but a Polish soldier, who was rewarded with the Korwin coat of arms. Matthias Corvinus was also ruler of the Duchy of Głogów, and as the Bohemian king, Suzerain of all the Silesian duchies.

Actually, Matthias Corvinus raised the Black Army which is recognized as the first standing continental European fighting force not under conscription and with regular pay since the Roman Empire. The soldiers of the Black Army were mainly Bohemians mercenaries, but Polish, Germans, Hungarians and adventurers from all over Europe joined as well. Sometimes officers were rewarded with lands and ennoblement. This may be a more realistic origin of the Korwin coat of arms, in Silesia at first (part of the Bohemian kingdom but Polish land anyway), and all around the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth later. In time, baroque authors related the old Slepowron coat of arms with the fashionable Korwin.

Korwin coat of arms can be found on the tombstone of Łukasz Noskowski – also Łukasz of Noskowa (death 1532), in St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków. He was the Chancellor of the Cracow Academy in 1526-1527.

The image of a raven appears on the city seal of Głogów from March 17, 1490. A Raven sitting on a branch was the emblem of the Corvinus/Korwin family, which ruled in the Duchy of Głogów - Jawor and Żagań. In the 15th century they gave their emblem to the city.

Blazon

Gules, on a cut off tree stump laid sideways proper, between two upper and two lower knots stands a left facing Raven Sable, in its beak, a ring Or with the diamond facing down. In the crest, above a crowned helmet, there are three ostrich feathers.

• The book of Polish families coats of arms. Vol. 2, p. 150/151 photo 076, DjVu format in the Warsaw University e-library by Count Juliusz Ostrowski (Translation from the Polish original: Księga herbowa rodów polskich. Cz. 2)
  

"Korwin I sometimes known as Ślepowron variation - In a red field, a black raven is facing left with a gold ring in its beak; it stands on a natural tree-stump, lying crosswise with two knots on top and two on the bottom. Over the helmet and the coronet are three ostrich feathers.
It’s one of the oldest Polish coats of arms, but neither Długosz nor official records from the fifteenth century tell about it. Prof. Małecki writes this coat of arms is separated from the Ślepowron only in the first decades of the sixteenth century (at the beginning, only Paprocki treated these two heraldic emblems as separates). Proof this fact some families that later used Korwin coat of arms but in the fifteenth century were still considered to be in Ślepowron clan, (Kochanowski family, for example). The name Ślepowron referred to the emblem, and the battle cry or call was Bojno or Bujno, as it’s proved in official records. Korwin coat of arms, being a later emblem, had no call."

"Korwin II – Reversing the figures is a common tool in Polish heraldry, which doesn’t follow the general principles of the Western heraldry; there is also an inverted Korwin facing right (instead of the usual drawing facing left). Niesiecki himself mentions it."

"Korwin III – In a red field there is a black raven with a gold ring in its beak, over a cut stump lying across, between two knots on each side. Above the helmet and the coronet there is the same raven with a ring. There are similarities between the crest of this variation and the crest of Ślepowron coat of arms."

Arms derivatives of Korwin, alternative drawings and entitled family versions

• Tadeusz Gajl identifies 13 coats of arms derivatives of Korwin:

• Korwin II

Herb Korwin II, surnames without verification on armorials: Piotrowski, Korwin-Piotrowski.

• Korwin III
• Bieńkowski, surname Bieńkowski.
• Chrzanowski, surname Chrzanowski.
• Gosiewski, surname Gosiewski. (Is uncertain if it is derivative of Korwin or Ślepowron).
• Jaguschinski Count, (Germanized, may be Jagodyński, Jagodziński, Jagusiński, Jagużyński vel Jahodyński).
• Kaftanowski, surname Kaftanowski.
• Lisowski, surname Lisowski also Lissowski.
• Materna, surnames Macerna, Materna.
• Michalski, surname Michalski.
• Sakowicz, surnames Dyrmejtowicz, Sakowicz.
• Terajewicz, surnames Terajewicz, Terajowicz.
• Wendrychowski, surnames Wendrychowski, Wędrychowski.

• Coats of arms related to Korwin on other way.

Some coats of arms may be related to Korwin, yet they are not classified as Derivatives properly, on Polish armorials:

• Karaczyński, surname Karaczyński.
• Korwin-Gałczewski, surname Korwin-Gałczewski.
• Korwin-Krukowski, surname Korwin-Krukowski. (Is uncertain if it is related to Korwin or Ślepowron).
• Przykorwin, surname Joachimowicz.

Notable bearers

Notable bearers of this Coat of Arms include:

• Łukasz Noskowski z Noskowa (15th/16th century) Chancellor of the Cracow Academy.
• Jan Kochanowski, (16th century) Poet and Writer.
• Aleksander Korwin Gosiewski (17th century) Voivode of Smolensk.
• Wincenty Korwin Gosiewski (17th century) Field-Hetman of Lithuania.
• Zuzanna Korwin Gosiewska (17th century)
• Teresa Korwin Gosiewska (17th century)
• Bogusław Korwin Gosiewski (17th century) Bishop of Smolensk.
• Krzysztof Korwin Gosiewski (17th century) Voivod of Smolensk.
• Maciek Korwin Gosiewski (17th century) General of the Lithuanian artillery.
• Szymon Marcin Kossakowski (18th century) Last Great Hetman of Lithuania (also see Ślepowron coat of arms; both of this coats of arms used by Kossakowski family).
• Ludwik Kochanowski (19th century) Baron.
• Sofia Kovalevskaya (Korwin-Krukowskaya) (19th century) Scientist from Russia.
• Wojciech Prendowski (19th century) Chairman of the Nobility.
• Bogumiła Bronisława Prendowski (19th century)
• Julia Dworakowska (1782–1844)
• Władysław Seredyński (19th century)
• Eliza Orzeszkowa (1842–1910), novelist.
• Janusz Korwin-Mikke (21st century) Polish politician
• Maja Lidia Kossakowska (b. 1972), fantasy writer

Related and Derivative coats of arms

• Ślepowron coat of arms
• Przykorwin coat of arms
• Bieńkowski coat of arms
• Materna coat of arms

See also

• Heraldry
• Coat of Arms
• Polish heraldry
• List of Polish nobility coats of arms

External links

• Herbarz Polski - Od Średniowiecza do XX wieku (Tadeusz Gajl) in English and Polish.
• Genealogia Dynastyczna/Dynastic Genealogy (Ryszard Jurzak) in English and Polish.
• Słownik genealogiczny - leksykon (Marcin Niewalda - redaktor naczelny) in Polish.
• Ornatowski.com (Artur Ornatowski) in Polish

- Herby szlacheckie Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów (Tadeusz Gajl)

- Herbarz rodowy (Alfred Znamierowski)

- Szlachta wylegitymowana w Królestwie Polskim w latach 1836-1861(1867), (Elżbieta Sęczys)

- Ornatowski.com – Rodziny (Artur Ornatowski)

• Wykaz Rodów Szlacheckich (Andrzej Brzezina Winiarski) in Polish.
• Chrząński: Tablice odmian herbowich, tablica XXII - Mały herbarz Adama Kromera i przyjaciół (Adam Kromer) in Polish.
• Mały Herbarz (Hetmani polni litewscy) Adama Kromera in Polish.
• Mały Herbarz (Podskarbowie wilcy litewski) Adama Kromera in Polish.
• Genealogia Kochanowiczów herbu Korwin (Witold Kochanowski) in Polish.
• Aleksander Gosiewski and Wincenty Gosiewski (Marcin Gosiewski) in English and Polish.
• Roman family genealogy (Michael Roman) in English.
• Confederation of the Polish Nobility – List of Members in Polish and English

References

1. ^ Herbarz Polski - Polish Armorial 2009/2010 (Tadeusz Gajl) - Herb Korwin
2. ^ Ornatowski.com - Herbarz rodowy (A. Znamierowski)
3. ^ - Rodziny: Lipowicz
4. ^ Genealogia Dynastyczna - Dynastic Genealogy (R. Jurzak)
5. ^ Słownik genealogiczny – leksykon