BLAZONING OF THE SCHMIDT COAT OF ARMS
BLAZON (Wappen der Familie Schmidt):
ARMS (Shield):
Azure a lion rampant or, holding a hammer bendways of the second
CREST (Helmet):
On a torse of the colors a lion issuant as in the arms
MANTLE (Decken):
Not deScribed (Mantling is seldom deScribed unless other than the Primary Tinctures are to be used)
MOTTO:
None recorded (It is rare for the German Achievement to deScribe a motto)
ARMS (Shield):
Azure a lion rampant or, holding a hammer bendways of the second
CREST (Helmet):
On a torse of the colors a lion issuant as in the arms
MANTLE (Decken):
Not deScribed (Mantling is seldom deScribed unless other than the Primary Tinctures are to be used)
MOTTO:
None recorded (It is rare for the German Achievement to deScribe a motto)
ARMS (Shield) INTERPRETATION:
Azure - (Means the Shield is Blue (Azure = Blue))
A Lion Rampant Or - (Means, in profile, a rampaging (Rampant) male Lion standing on one hind leg and colored golden (Or = Gold) is placed upon the Shield)
holding a hammer bendways of the second - (Means the Lion is holding a hammer in a diagonal attitude/orientation (Bendways) and it takes the color of the second color mentioned (Or))
CREST (Helmet) INTERPRETATION:
On a Torse of the colors - (Means the next thing deScribed will go upon a cloth wreath (Torse) of 6 twists, alternating between the primary tinctures)
A Lion Issuant as in the Arms - (Means a Lion "comes out" as if from behind the Helmet (Issuant) and is otherwise like the Lion on the Shield (as in the Arms) and is affixed by the Torse (together with the Mantling to the Helmet, which is drawn in Profile with its Visor Closed, or with no Visor nor Grilles - the kind used by a "Bürgerliche" (Esquire/Commoner/Citizen))
SYMBOLISM:
Hammer - (Honor; emblem of the smith's trade)
Lion - (Courage)
Colors:
Azure (Blue) - (Loyalty and truth)
Or (Gold) - (Generosity)
Azure - (Means the Shield is Blue (Azure = Blue))
A Lion Rampant Or - (Means, in profile, a rampaging (Rampant) male Lion standing on one hind leg and colored golden (Or = Gold) is placed upon the Shield)
holding a hammer bendways of the second - (Means the Lion is holding a hammer in a diagonal attitude/orientation (Bendways) and it takes the color of the second color mentioned (Or))
CREST (Helmet) INTERPRETATION:
On a Torse of the colors - (Means the next thing deScribed will go upon a cloth wreath (Torse) of 6 twists, alternating between the primary tinctures)
A Lion Issuant as in the Arms - (Means a Lion "comes out" as if from behind the Helmet (Issuant) and is otherwise like the Lion on the Shield (as in the Arms) and is affixed by the Torse (together with the Mantling to the Helmet, which is drawn in Profile with its Visor Closed, or with no Visor nor Grilles - the kind used by a "Bürgerliche" (Esquire/Commoner/Citizen))
SYMBOLISM:
Hammer - (Honor; emblem of the smith's trade)
Lion - (Courage)
Colors:
Azure (Blue) - (Loyalty and truth)
Or (Gold) - (Generosity)
Bron: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kuntz/schmidt.html
Vir my kinders- mag ons altyd met eer lewe, vol moed om die toekoms aan te pak en te vorm. Mag ons altyd lojaal wees in dit wat ons in glo. Mag ons lewens van die Waarheid getuig, en mag ons vrygewig wees teenoor almal wat minder as ons het.
