Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "A heraldic family (Polish: ród herbowy, literally, a \"coat-of-arms [or heraldic] family\") is an institution unique to Polish heraldry, relating to the tradition of a number of — not necessarily consanguineous — szlachta (noble) individual families bearing the same coat-of-arms. The numbers of such individual families often reached several dozen; several hundred were not uncommon.The Polish word \"herb\" — which derives from the German \"Erbe\", \"inheritance\" or \"heritage\" — denotes both the heraldic family and the coat-of-arms that the heraldic family bore.The persons and individual families that shared a coat-of-arms (\"herb\") were called \"herbowni\", \"współherbowni\", or \"klejnotni\" (\"bearers of [the same] crest\" — from \"klejnot\", \"jewel\").The tradition of heraldic families constitutes one of the hypotheses about the origins of the Polish nobility.Later developments which affected growth in the sizes of heraldic families included vituperatio nobilitatis (a legal procedure for nullification of a fraudulent nobility membership), and heraldic adoption."@en }
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- Heraldic_family abstract "A heraldic family (Polish: ród herbowy, literally, a \"coat-of-arms [or heraldic] family\") is an institution unique to Polish heraldry, relating to the tradition of a number of — not necessarily consanguineous — szlachta (noble) individual families bearing the same coat-of-arms. The numbers of such individual families often reached several dozen; several hundred were not uncommon.The Polish word \"herb\" — which derives from the German \"Erbe\", \"inheritance\" or \"heritage\" — denotes both the heraldic family and the coat-of-arms that the heraldic family bore.The persons and individual families that shared a coat-of-arms (\"herb\") were called \"herbowni\", \"współherbowni\", or \"klejnotni\" (\"bearers of [the same] crest\" — from \"klejnot\", \"jewel\").The tradition of heraldic families constitutes one of the hypotheses about the origins of the Polish nobility.Later developments which affected growth in the sizes of heraldic families included vituperatio nobilitatis (a legal procedure for nullification of a fraudulent nobility membership), and heraldic adoption.".