Book Title: Genealogiae aliquot familiarum nobilium in Saxonia : quae vel a comitibus vel baronibus ortae, quosdam pontificiam, quosdam episcopalem dignitatem adeptos produxerunt / Collectae opera et studio M. Hieronymi Henninges Luneburgensis ecclesiastae ; nunc autem denuo auctiores et correctiores ex Bibliotheca Ranzoviana editae ; Quibus accesserunt insignia fere omnium, qui genere nobiles in Ducatibus Slesuigae, Holsatiae ac Stormariae, arces munitas, elegantia castra, praedia, domicilia, etc. possederunt, ... item in calce descriptio monumenti ab Henrico Ranzio ... etc.

Author: Henninges, Hieronymus, d. 1597

Image Title: Personal Arms of Wiprecht von Groitzsch

Description: This enwreathed shield contains the composite arms of legendary Saxon noble Wiprecht von Groitzsch (d. 1124). As his legend notes, Wiprecht was a warring man; each of the shield’s five regions symbolizes part of the domain he assembled: the bull represents Lusatia; the imperial eagle and horizontal stripes, Magdeburg; the galloping horse in the center, the county of Groitzsch; the two-color field perhaps represents Leisnig; and finally, the swan represents Zwickau.

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