Author: Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards

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Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781332263370

Excerpt from The Hiester Family Escutcheon: Azure, a Sun, or. Crest: Between two horns, surmounting a helmet offronte, a sun as in the Arms. The origin of the Hiester family was the Silesian Knight Premiscloros Husterniz, who flourished about 1329 and held the office of Mayor, or Town Captain, of the city of Swineford. A. D. 1480 the Patrician and Counsellor of Swineford, Adolphus Louis, called "der Hiester," obtained from the Emperor Frederick letters patent, whereby he and his posterity were authorized to use the coat-of-arms he had inherited from his ancestors, to whom it was formerly granted, with the faculty of transmitting the same, as an hereditary right and privilege, to all his descendants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."