EGKH ( c1679 )   



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EGKH ( c1679 )
 
ščit
(arms)
Quarterly, 1 and 4: Per pale on the dexter Sable, a fess Azure, the sinister, checky Sable and Argent numbering 12; 2 and 4, per pale Argent and Gules, a crescent counterchanged.
greben
(crest)
Issuant from a coronet Or on a helm visor of the same, a griffen checky Sable and Argent, armed and langued Sable, its wings Sable a fess Argent; issuant from a coronet Or on a helm sinister with a visor Or, a wing per pale Argent and Gules, charged with a crescent counterchanged.
vir
(source)
Opus Insignium Armorumque 1687 - 1688 Das Grosse Wappenbuch. pp 10, 28, 37, 48, 51, 58, 65, 107, 201, 246.
The arms represent the family Egkh (Egck) who were titulars who possessed hereditary estate rights in Carniola (10); a member of the Egkh was commandery of the German Order of Knights in Ljubljana (28); a member of the Egkh was a general in Karlovac (37); a member of the family was a provincial administrator of Carniola (48); a Carniolian officer (51); a vice-governor of Carniola (58); a member of the provincial committee of Carniola (65); were a noble family that possessed estates in Carniola (107); were also a noble family recognized in Styria (201 - note: here the crest sinister was depicted with two wings displayed, the dexter per pale Argent and Gules, the sinister per pale Gules and Argent, both charged with a crescent counterchanged) and Carinthia (246).
The Egkh family arms, however, found on plate 246 (representing the noble families of Carinthia) is rendered completely different to the previous renderings of the Egkh family arms. Click on the image on the right to view the rendering of these Carinthian arms and its blazon.
bibliografija / bibliography
  • Janez Vajkard Valvasor, "Opus Insignium Armorumque 1687 - 1688 Das Grosse Wappenbuch, re-published by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, January 1993 (999 copies only), ISBN 86-7131-070-1.

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