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Jasieńczyk coat of arms

Polish coat of arms

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ4539238 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jasieńczyk is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

History

The first known use of these arms is dated 1406. Earliest version was Jasiona and had two keys in saltire. A bearer of this coat of arms was Chancellor of the Exchequer - Treasurer of Poland, and the history of these arms is presumed to be attributable to ecclesiastical iconography.

Blazon

Azure a key or, the wards in chief.

Notable bearers

Notable bearers of this coat of arms include:

Witold Malkuzynski

Gregg Jenczyk

See also

Polish heraldry

Heraldry

Coat of arms

External links

J. Lyčkoŭski. "Belarusian Nobility Coats of Arms". Archived from the original on 2017-09-27. Retrieved 2017-11-24.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jasieńczyk coat of arms” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.