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The following is a direct translation from the classical genealogical and heraldic reference "Herbarz Polski" by Kasper Niesiecki, S. J., Lipsk edition, 1839-1846.

Neither Paprocki nor Okolski wrote about these arms. There is half a golden stag with horns and forelegs running or jumping on the right side on a field of gold; in place of the stag's hindquarters is a moon, not fun but more like a new moon, slanted, in the middle of which is a golden star. On the helm are peacock feathers, on which are a moon and star as on the arms themselves. I saw a coat of arms as described on a banner, hung in the Franciscan Fathers' Church in Krosno, of Joachim z Kralic Slaski, who died in 1606. The same can be seen to this day among the other arms of Regina z Kralic Oswiecimowa, mother of Stanislaw 0swiecim, founder of the 0swiecim chapel, in Krosno at the Franciscan Fathers'.  Petrasancta does not have similar arms, only cap. 54 fol. 367.  He describes the Maffeiuses in Rome thus, that there is a stag jumping from an azure field, but as regards the moon and star, his description is of gold and silver ones. These arms seem to be more like those of Tomasz Bacotz de Erdead, Cardinal and Archbishop of Strygon, portrayed in the chapel of the Strygon palace magnificently erected by him. Cerut. Orbis fol. 57 Reufr. lib. 14 epistol. fol 115, that is, a stag which is jumping to the right from a semi-circle or from a half-wheel, a red field, the stag and wheel silver or white. I understand from this that these are arms of the Slaskis, inasmuch as they settled in Podgórze near Hungary, and so they were brought from there to us. As regards the moon, it could be that arose by error, that the semicircle was misunderstood to be a nonfull moon, and a hub of the wheel was interpreted as a star. These same arms are those of the Palfiuses de Erdead in Hungary, a horned stag jumping forth from a hub, as I saw in a certain panegyric in Vienna published by Paulo Palfi, imperial counselor in 1646. Among us in Poland I have not seen any other houses use these except the Slaskis.


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Copyright © 1991 William F. Hoffman. Used by permission. This article originally appeared in Polish Genealogical 
Society Newsletter  (Vol. XIV, No. 1, Spring 1991), the bulletin of the Polish Genealogical Society.