Piłsudski is a
Polish coat of arms. The
Piłsudski family, whom belonged to the
Polish nobility (szlachta), used it.
History
Blazon
The Coat of arms of Piłsudski is a variation of the
Coat of arms of Kościesza
Notable bearers
Notable bearers of this coat of arms include:
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Józef Piłsudski
Józef Klemens Piłsudski (; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (Poland), Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920). In the aftermath of World War I, he beca ...
Chief of State and Marshal of Poland
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Adam Piłsudski
Adam Piłsudski (Zalavas, 25 September 1869 - 16 December 1935) was a member of the Senate of Poland, vice president of Wilno, brother of the famous Józef Piłsudski. He was honored with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
Re ...
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Jadwiga Piłsudska
Jadwiga Piłsudska-Jaraczewska (; 28 February 1920 – 16 November 2014) was a Polish aviator, pilot who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. She was one of two daughters of Józef Piłsudski.
Life and career
Jad ...
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Jan Piłsudski
Jan Piłsudski (15 January 1876 – 21 December 1950), was a Polish politician and younger brother of Marshal Józef Piłsudski.
Like his famous brother, Piłsudski was born in Zalavas (), Lithuania, in what was then the Russian Empire.
He se ...
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Bronisław Piłsudski
Bronisław Piotr Piłsudski (; 2 November 1866 – 17 May 1918) was a Polish ethnologist who researched the Ainu people after he was exiled by Tsar Alexander III of Russia to the Far East.
Piłsudski considered himself Polish, Lithuanian ...
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Franciszek Piłsudski
Franciszek Piłsudski (1713-1791) Piłsudski coat of arms, was a Lithuanian nobleman, Colonel and Commander in the Samogitian division of the Grand Ducal Lithuanian army, Deputy cup-bearer, member of the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonw ...
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Jan Chryzostom Piłsudski
Jan Chryzostom Piłsudski (1760–1837) (Piłsudski coat of arms), was a Lithuanian nobility, Lithuania nobleman and landowner, Chamberlain (office), Chamberlain of the Duchy of Samogitia, Marshal of Nobility (Poland), Marshal of the Nobility for ...
See also
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Polish heraldry
Polish heraldry is the study of the coats of arms that have historically been used in Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It treats of specifically Polish heraldic traits and of the Polish heraldic system, contrasted with heraldic sys ...
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Heraldic family
A heraldic clan (''ród herbowy''), in Poland, comprised all the noble (''szlachta'') bearers of the same coat of arms. The members of a heraldic clan were not necessarily linked by consanguinity. The concept was unique to Polish heraldry.
His ...
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List of Polish nobility coats of arms
Polish heraldry is typical to the Polish nobility/szlachta, which has its origins in Middle Ages knights/warriors clans that provided military support to the king, dukes or overlords.
Exceptions apart, all Polish families belonging to the same no ...
Related Coat of Arms
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Kościesza Coat of Arms
Kościesza (''Strzegomia, Strzegomya'') - is a Polish heraldry, Polish coat of arms used by szlachta families in the times of Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569), Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
History
According to a le ...
Bibliography
* Herbarz polski, Tadeusz Gajl, Gdańsk 2007,
Polish coats of arms
Piłsudski family
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