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Sas<ref name="SAVS3">Template:Cite book</ref> or Szász<ref name="SAVS1">Template:Cite book</ref> (origin: Slavic for 'Saxon', Polish: Sas, Hungarian: Szász, Romanian: Saș, Ukrainian: Сас) is a Central European coat of arms. It was borne since the medieval period by several Transylvanian-Saxon Hungarian, Ruthenian, Ukrainian,<ref name = "encyclopedia">Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Entry: Petty Gentry, written by Yaroslav Isaievych Volume 3 (1993). Published by University of Toronto.</ref> and Polish-Lithuanian noble families.<ref name="SAVS3" /><ref name="SAVS1" /><ref name="HPKN">Kasper Niesiecki – HERBARZ POLSKI Kaspra Niesieckiego S.J. (English Polish Armorial – Kaspra Niesieckiego S.J.), Author: Kasper Niesiecki, Publisher: Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz, Breitkopf & Härtel, Lipsku (Leipzig), 1841, Vol. 8, p. 284-285, (in Polish). [1]</ref><ref name="BPHP">Herby rycerstwa polskiego (English Coat of Arms of Polish Nobility), Author: Bartosz Paprocki, Publisher: Biblioteka Polska, 1584 Kraków, reprinted 1858 Kraków, reprinted 1982 Warsaw, p. 695-697 (in Polish). [2]</ref><ref name="OPSO">ORBIS POLONUS, Tom III, (Simple English Armorial of Polish nobility, Volume 3), Author: Szymon Okolski, 1641–43, Kraków, p. 195-202 (in Latin), p. 207-214 digital. [3]</ref><ref name="SAVS2">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="SAVS4">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="PMHN">Template:Cite book</ref> The house was once a mighty princely and ducal house with origins in Saxony, Transylvania, Hungary and Ruthenia.<ref name="SAVS3" /><ref name="SAVS1" /><ref name="BPHP" /><ref name="OPSO" /><ref name="SAVS2" /><ref name="SAVS4" />

History

Ancient Polish-Lithuanian historians like Szymon Okolski say that the origin of these arms is derived from Saxony, where during the mid-12th century King Géza II of Hungary invited Germanic peoples of Saxony to settle in, establish trading centres and defend relatively sparsely populated Transylvania in the Kingdom of Hungary, upon which the Transylvanian Saxons were later given a privileged status in the "Diploma Andreanum" (Golden Charter of Transylvanian Saxons) issued by King Andrew II of Hungary<ref name="HPKN" /><ref name="OPSO" /><ref name="AAPN1">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Transylvanian Saxons, Encyclopædia Britannica</ref> (see Transylvanian Saxons).

The origins of the dynastic House of Sas<ref name="NFITP">Template:Cite book</ref> or Szász vary depending on the source. According to the chronicles of Albertus Strepa;<ref name="OPSO" /> the outstanding military leader Comes Huyd of Hungary (a Transylvanian-Saxon), entered Galicia in 1236 with his mighty army of allied mounted warrior knights to the service of Daniel of Galicia King of Ruthenia, and each was rewarded with lands in Red Ruthenia that Huyd and his allied noble knights settled, being referred to as the Sas/Szász (Saxon) due to their Transylvanian Saxon dialect and origin.<ref name="BPHP" /><ref name="OPSO" /><ref name="PMHN" /><ref name="AAPN1" />

According to the chronicles of Wojciech Strepa;<ref name="HPKN" /> Comes Huyd [Hujd] of Hungary, having come with his mighty army of allied mounted warrior knights to the service of Lev I of Galicia (1269–1301) the son of Daniel of Galicia King of Ruthenia, and having allied himself with Lithuania, drove the Eastern barbarians out of Mazovia. In reward for his knightly deeds, he was given, among other gifts, Lev's widowed sister-in-law N.N. of Galicia Princess of Kholm as a wife (the widow of Lev's brother Shvarn Daniilovich,<ref name="MPCK">Template:Cite book</ref> sister of Vaišvilkas, daughter of King Mindaugas of Lithuania from the House of Mindaugas)<ref>Терлецький М. Контури роду Драго-Сасів / Вид.2-ге.– Львів:"Центр Європи", 2005.– 172 c. (Виклад історії цих давних вихідців з Підкарпаття на Захід, у Саську землю [Верхню Лужицю – Саксонію], їхні мандри та повернення через Волощину [Угорщину] на свою прабатьківщину – Галичину),</ref> and along with his allied knights lands in the territory of Red Ruthenia that they settled.<ref name="HPKN" /><ref name="AAPN1" />

Count Huyd, who bore on his coat of arms the blue (azure) escutcheon with the gold (or) crescent, gold stars and gold arrow, and the knights who allied under his battle banner, are said to have been the progenitors of the House of Sas (Szász).<ref name="HPKN" /><ref name="PMHN" /><ref name="AAPN1" /><ref>Терлецький М. (2005). Контури роду Драго-Сасів / Вид.2-ге.– Львів:"Центр Європи", 2005.– 172 c.</ref>

File:Hungary Vladislaus II ducat gold coin 1491, mintmaster Bartolomeu Drágfi de Beltiug.png
Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary medieval ducat (Magyar aranyforint) gold coin struck in 1491 by the Baia Mare (Nagybánya) mint house in Transylvania. Reverse shows a crowned and nimbate standing figure of Saint Ladislaus I King of Hungary holding a horseman's battle axe and globus cruciger above the below mint mark "n" and mint house (mint master) shield Sas coat of arms of Bartolomeu Drágfi de Beltiug.

Early origins also point to the Hungarian Transylvanian-Saxon Voivodes Dragoş I de Bedeu (Bedő) voivode of Maramureș Prince of Moldavia<ref name="IVCT">Template:Cite book</ref> and his successor son Sas de Beltiug (Hungarian Szász de Béltek) Prince of Moldavia,<ref name="SAVS2" /><ref name="SAVS4" /><ref name="RACTS">Template:Cite book</ref> who bore the blue (azure) escutcheon with the gold crescent, gold stars and gold arrow on their coat of arms.<ref name="SAVS2" /><ref name="SAVS4" /> Other notable scions of Dragoş I were Bartolomeu Drágfi of Beltiug (Béltek), Comes Perpetuus of Middle Szolnok (1479–1488), Voivode of Transylvania and Comes of the Székely people (1493–1499),<ref name="RACTS" /> who had distinguished himself earlier as a royal knight of the Hungarian Royal Court defeating the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Breadfield (1479) together with Pál Kinizsi, István Báthory, Vuk Branković and Basarab Laiotă cel Bătrân.<ref name="HRNF">Joan cavaler de Puscariu – Date istorice privitoare la familiile nobile române (English History of the Romanian Noble Families). Editura societății culturale Pro Maramures "Dragoș Vodă", Cluj-Napoca, 2003 (in Romanian).</ref><ref name="HOM">Prof. Alexandru Filipascu de Dolha și Petrova – Istoria Maramureșului (English History of Maramureş), Editura "Gutinul" Baia Mare, 1997 (in Romanian).</ref><ref name ="DSHG">Wyrostek, Ludwik – Rod Dragow-Sasow na Wegrzech i Rusi Halickiej (English Clan Dragow-Saxon in Hungary and neighbouring Galicia). RTH t. XI/1931-1932 (in Polish).</ref> At the time of King Matthias Corvinus' death, Bartholomew Drágfi of Beltiug (Béltek) was among the wealthiest landowners of the country, three castles, two manor houses, eight market towns and about 200 villages were in his property.<ref name="RACTS" /> His estates in Middle Szolnok and Satu Mare included the castles of Chioar and Ardud together with the large lordships surrounding them, and further, the castles of Șoimi and the castellum of Ceheiu.<ref name="RACTS" /> Another important family member, among others, was Ioan Drágfi of Beltiug (Béltek) Comes of Temes County in 1525, who died 1526 in the Battle of Mohács.<ref name="HRNF" /><ref name="HOM" /><ref name ="DSHG" />

Written descriptions of the Sas/Szász coat of arms in classical heraldic references, such as in "Herby rycerstwa polskiego" (1584), "Korona Polska/Herbarz Polski" (1728–1846) and Siebmacher's armorial book on the Hungarian and Transylvanian nobility, describe the arms in blue (azure) tincture, as borne by the families Drágfi (Hungarian patronym for "son of Drag") of Beltiug (Béltek) scions of Dragoş I of Bedeu, Jan Daniłowicz herbu Sas, Dziedoszycki (Dzieduszycki) h. Sas and Berlicz-Strutynskių (Strutyński) h. Sas.<ref name="SAVS3" /><ref name="SAVS1" /><ref name="HPKN" /><ref name="BPHP" /><ref name="SAVS2" /><ref name="SAVS4" /><ref name="PMHN" /><ref name="NFITP" /> Some families, however, bear this coat of arms on a red (gules) tincture field, in "Orbis Polonus" (1641–43) the Sas clan arms is described as being of "sanguineus" Latin for "blood red" tincture,<ref name="OPSO" /> such as borne by the Counts Komarnicki herbu Sas family in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.

Blazon

File:Pałac Uruskich Krakowskie Przedmieście.jpg
Sas coat of arms on the central facade of Uruski Palace, Warsaw, which now forms the University of Warsaw.

In 1843 the former palace became the property of Count Seweryn Uruski herbu Sas (1817–1890),<ref name="NFITP" /> marshal of the nobility of Warsaw Province, privy counselor of the Imperial Court and president of the College of Arms of the Polish Kingdom, who demolished the former palace and commissioned architect Andrzej Gołoński to design and raise a new palace in its place with Renaissance architecture. The sculptor Ludwika Kaufman was commissioned to carve the Sas coat of arms in reverence of the great progenitors of the Sas (Saxon) house. After the death of Seweryn Uruski in 1890 the palace became the property of his wife Countess Ermancja Tyzenhauz h. Bawół, then his youngest surviving issue Countess Maria Uruska h. Sas (1860–1931) who married Vladimir Światopełk-Czetwertyński.

Burned during World War II by the occupying German forces in the Warsaw uprising, the palace remained in the ownership of the Światopełk-Czetwertyński family until 1947, then passed into the possession of the University of Warsaw. During the years 1948–1951 the palace was restored by the architect Jan Dąbrowski. Today it houses the Department of Geography and Regional Studies. Template:Clear

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Bearers, family members of the House of Sas

The following family names are listed in the classical genealogical and heraldic reference "Korona Polska/Herbarz Polski (Crown of Poland/Polish Armorial) 1728–1846" authored by heraldist Kasper Niesiecki:<ref name="HPKN" /> Baczyński, Bandrowski, Baraniecki, Bereznicki, Biliński, Błazowski, Bojarski, Bratkowski, Bryliński, Brześciański, Buchowski, Chodakowski, Czołhański, Czolowski/Czolowscy, Daniłowicz, Długopolski, Dobrzański, Dubrawski, Dziedoszycki, Dziedziel, Hoszowski, Hrebnicki, Huhernicki, Jamiński, Jasiński, Jaworski, Kłodnicki, Komarnicki, Kropiwnicki, Kruszelnicki, Kulczycki, Lityński, Łucki, Mańczak, Manesterski, Matkowski, Mikulski, Mściszewski, Nowosielski, Odrzechowski, Orłowski, Podwysocki, Raszkowski, Rześniowiecki, Rosźniatowski, Rudnicki, Siemiasz, Skotnicki, Strutyński, Strzelbicki, Sulatycki, Świstelnicki, Tarnawski, Tatomir, Terlecki, Tesmer, Tyssarowski, Uniatycki, Winnicki, Wisłocki, Witwicki, Wołkowicki, Wołosiecki, Woryski, Wysoczanski (Wytag z metryk Stanow Krol.Galic i Lodom.) , Zapłatyński, Zawisza, Zeliborski, Zesteliński, Zurakowski, Żukotyński.<ref name="HPKN" />

According to addendum added to "Herbarz Polski" by the 19th-century editor and publisher Bobrowicz,<ref name="HPKN" /> other authors, like Duńczewski, Kuropatnicki, Małachowski, Wielądek, assign the Sas coat of arms to the following noble families:"<ref name="HPKN" /> Brzuski, Charewicz, Husarzewski, Kumarnicki, Nechrebecki, Obertynski, Olewnicki, Pochorecki, Popiel, Sasimowski, Sasowski, Tyzdrowski.<ref name="HPKN" /><ref name="PMHN" /> Bearers mentioned in other sources include: Uruski<ref name="NFITP" /> and KnihinickiTemplate:Citation needed.

According to Aleksander Czolowski as well as Kasper Niesecki and Bobrowicz, Nanowski. <http://bcpw.bg.pw.edu.pl/Content/962/herbarz_t2_hpii.pdf></Herbarz polski Kaspra Niesieckiego, S. J. Powiększony dodatkami z ..., Volume 10>

Notable individuals

Notable bearers of this coat of arms include:

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Note: as name spellings were fairly fluid between local vernaculars spoken and written in past history throughout the Slavic-speaking states or central Europe region, so differences in name spellings exist from one place to another.

Derivated coat of arms

See also

Literature

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  • HERBARZ POLSKI Kaspra Niesieckiego S.J. (English Polish Armorial – Kaspra Niesieckiego S.J.), Author: Kasper Niesiecki, Publisher: Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz, Breitkopf & Härtel, Lipsku (Leipzig), 1841, Vol. 8, p. 284–285. (in Polish)
  • ORBIS POLONUS, Tom III, (Simple English Armorial of Polish nobility, Volume 3), Author: Szymon Okolski, 1641–43, Kraków, p. 195–202. (in Latin)
  • Herby rycerstwa polskiego (English Coat of Arms of Polish Nobility), Author: Bartosz Paprocki, Publisher: Biblioteka Polska, 1584 Kraków, reprinted 1858 Kraków, reprinted 1982 Warsaw, p. 695–697 (in Polish)
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  • Ludwik Wyrostek: Ród Dragów – Sasów na Węgrzech i Rusi Halickiej, Kraków, 1932. (in Polish)
  • Franciszek Piekosiński: Heraldyka polska wieków średnich, Kraków, 1899. (in Polish)
  • Tadeusz Gajl: Herbarz polski od średniowiecza do XX wieku : ponad 4500 herbów szlacheckich 37 tysięcy nazwisk 55 tysięcy rodów. L&L, 2007. Template:ISBN. (in Polish)

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