Thread: Coat of arms

As we are all gentlemen shavers here at SRP I was wondering how many of us have our own coat of arms. My parents did a family history search and found our family coat of arms and then gave it to me as a present. It is now framed and has a special place on the wall above my computer. But I'm thinking when we get our own house and I get my own man cave it should hang above my razor collection.
Anyway, I'm sure I'm not the only one here who has a coat of arms. Feel free to display your status as a gentleman by posting your coat of arms here.

I'll get a picture of mine.

My last name is Hartshorn and our genealogy search brought us way back to a band of outlaws that were thoguht to be associated with the band that was famous for "Robin Hood" even though he didn't exist as one person.


Neat stuff in family history. I believe our coat of arms is a lion and a goat or something along those lines but I will have to check.

Originally Posted by JokiJo

Neat stuff in family history. I believe our coat of arms is a lion and a goat or something along those lines but I will have to check.

A lion or a goat...such similar creatures

Back in the day only the uber wealthy had coats of arms. When they started collecting taxes they needed last names so they were often times assigned last names based on the local Lord.

So the coat of arms really doesn't relate to you at all (I'm not talking about the original poster here just in general) and most of these companies that research these things just find the coat of arms that belonged to the original blue-blood family and if they don't find one they make one up for you. However if you are decended from a blue blood family and do have a true coat of arms that's super cool.

You are right, but I'm still going to claim its my coat of arms.

ive got mine and it has its own spot on my right upper arm. my brother and i got the tattoos right before my first deployment to iraq, still cant my older brother to get one though

-dan-

I don't know about family coat of arms but we had a coat of sleeves. It was a London Fog raincoat with four sleeves. My uncle sold it to this guy:

From my mother's side:

I have a whole history with lots of pictures of castles and stuff my family (mom's side) used to have from 1500s-1900s in what is now the Czech Republic. I visited there last September to see some of what're now ruins that used to belong to my family. I know some of the history and could read a little, I think they originally came to power in the Hussite revolution and ended with communism coming to Czechoslovakia after WWII (my grandpa fled the country). He went from Czechoslovakia to Austria, crossing by an armed guard who, thankfully, didn't fire. Then to France, then Canada where he met my grandma and my mom and uncle were born and finally to California in the US where I was born and raised.

There were two castles, I only got to see the old one in ruins while I was there but wanted to see the other - I do have a black and white photo of my grandpa in front of the more modern one though.

Have coat of arms too, it changed over time and I can scan a picture of it showing how it changed. Have some family history stuff too but its all written in Czech and I can't read it.

I'll scan and post some stuff later