Ostrogski ( la, Baca – Perl, la, Laius – white (without
chatoyancy)) is a Polish coat of arms of the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. A variant of the
Leliwa
Leliwa is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several hundred szlachta families during the existence of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and remains in use today by many of the descendants of these families. The ...
and
Ogończyk coat of arms.
History and description
Traditional Ostrogski coat of arms was described in his work
Kasper Niesiecki, while its iconographic representation is seen on the
Ostroh Bible
The Ostrog Bible ( uk, Острозька Біблія, translit=Ostroz’ka Bibliya; russian: Острожская Библия, translit=Ostrozhskaya Bibliya) was one of the earliest East Slavic translations of the Bible and the first compl ...
. According to Niesiecki the first (oldest) Ostrogski coat of arms was
Pogoń Ruska coat of arms where the
Saint George pierces a dragon (see
Saint George and the Dragon
In a legend, Saint Georgea soldier venerated in Christianitydefeats a dragon. The story goes that the dragon originally extorted tribute from villagers. When they ran out of livestock and trinkets for the dragon, they started giving up a human tr ...
). During the
Battle of Vedrosha on 14 July 1500 the Grand Hetman of Lithuania Konstanty Ostrogski was taken a prisoner by the Muscovite forces and later sent to
Vologda.
Nikolay Karamzin cites that on 18 October 1506 Ostrogski pledged his allegiance to the Grand Prince of Moscow
Vasili III as a
boyar
A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the Feudalism, feudal nobility in many Eastern European states, including Kievan Rus', Bulgarian Empire, Bulgaria, Russian nobility, Russia, Boyars of Moldavia and Wallachia, Wallachia and ...
, confirmed by the Metropolitan of Moscow
Simon. Ostrogski was sent then to the
Sloboda Ukraine to fight Tatars, but managed to escape and returned to Lithuania in 1507.
After Konstanty Ostrogski returned from the Muscovite captivity he adopted a new coat of arms (his former coat of arms was to similar to that of the
Grand Duchy of Moscow
The Grand Duchy of Moscow, Muscovite Russia, Muscovite Rus' or Grand Principality of Moscow (russian: Великое княжество Московское, Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye; also known in English simply as Muscovy from the Lati ...
). The new coat of arms was created as a mix of Leliwa and Ogończyk coat of arms, in remembrance of his two sons Eliasz (whose wife Beata Kościelecka was of
Ogończyk coat of arms
Ogończyk is a Polish heraldry, Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
History
Although the coat of arms was f ...
) and
Konstanty (whose wife
Zofia Tarnowska
Countess Zofia Tarnowska (1534–1570) was a Polish–Lithuanian noblewoman and heiress.
She was the daughter of Hetman Jan Amor Tarnowski h. Leliwa and Zofia Szydłowiecka h. Odrowąż.
Marriage and issue
Zofia married Prince Konstanty Was ...
was of
Leliwa coat of arms).
According to the ''
Book of Knowledge of All Kingdoms'', the coat of arms for country of Roxia (Ruthenia) was described as a green field with an octagonal star, while its banner consists of two golden half-moons at a silver field pointing with their horns at each other. To the similarity of the description points
Roman Klymkevych.
[Klymkevych R. "Львів і Україна в найдавнішому геральдичному творі" (Lviv and Ukraine in the most ancient heraldic work). "Khronika-2000". Kyiv, 2000.]
Notable bearers
Notable bearers of this coat of arms include:
*
Konstanty Ostrogski
Konstanty Iwanowicz Ostrogski (c. 1460 – 10 August 1530; lt, Konstantinas Ostrogiškis; uk, Костянтин Іванович Острозький, translit=Kostiantyn Ivanovych Ostrozkyi; be, Канстантын Іванавіч Ас ...
(Duke, Grand Hetman of Lithuania.)
*
Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (Duke, marshal of Volhynia and voivode of the Kiev Voivodeship.)
*
Janusz Ostrogski (Voivode of Volhynian Voivodship and castellan of Kraków.)
*
Oleksander Ostrogski (Voivode of the Wolhynian Voivodship.)
*
Aleksander Janusz Zasławski-Ostrogski (Last of Dukes Ostrogski-Zasławski.)
*
Władysław Dominik Zasławski (Voivode of Sandomierz Voivodship.)
Gallery
File:POL COA Ostrogski II.svg, Ostrogski II
File:POL COA Ostrogski alt 1.svg, Simple version
File:Krell Battle of Orsha (detail) 07.jpg, Konstanty Ostrogski with Bacalaius banner ( Battle of Orsha)
File:Coat of arms Dubno.svg, Coat of arms for the city of Dubno, Ukraine
File:Coat of arms Stepan.svg, Coat of arms for the town of Stepan
Stepan ( uk, Степань; pl, Stepań; he, סטפאן) is an urban-type settlement in Sarny Raion (district) of Rivne Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. Its population was 4,073 as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census. Current population:
The ...
, Ukraine
File:Баклай Заслав герб.JPG, Alternate version
See also
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Ostrogski family
*
Zasławski
The House of Zasławski (plural ''Zasławscy'') was the name of a Polish– Ruthenian noble family and a cadet branch of the Ostrogski family. The Zasławski family had its power base in Volhynia, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (today in Ukra ...
References
External links
Coat of arms and flag of the Ostrowiec County
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Polish coats of arms
Ukrainian coats of arms
Ostrogski family