Prus coat of arms
Polish coat of arms
Prus I is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by a number of szlachta (noble) families under the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
History
According to genealogist Łukasz Ćwikła from the University of Łódź, the Prus were a heraldic clan that, alongside Prus II and Prus III, were old Prussian refugees fleeing the Teutonic conquest of Prussia. These refugees clung to Old Prussian traditions, and, unlike other Polish clans, had stratified nobiles and ignobiles tiers to nobility. The Old Prussians as a whole settled in Mazovia, with a significant final refugee movement following the Prussian uprisings in the 1260s and 1270s as the Teutonic order eradicated the Old Prussians and resettled the land with Germans.
Two Old Prussian nobiles princes are tied to the three Prus coat of arms, Windyka and Obizor, who fled to Mazovia around 1270. On October 1, 1345, Mazovian co-dukes Siemowit III and Casimir I issued a privilege to specifically named legitimate successors of Windyka and Obizor to answer only to the duke, and no ordinary provincial officials. This marked the legal recognition of pre-existing old Prussian nobility into the Polish clan and later the nobility system.
For Prus I, the first written mention comes in 1389 when the two respective princes' families were officially proclaimed as a clan alongside the Turzyna. Like the Turzyna, the Prus I also prominently featured a curvatura on their coat of arms.
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