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Łucki
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Jerzy (George) Łucki
Arms: Azure an arrow point upwards Argent between two mullets of six points and in base a crescent Or;
Crest: Upon a helm Argent barred Or affronte, mantled Azure doubled Or and Issuant from a coronet Or jewelled proper the upper rim set with acanthus leaves Or and pearls Argent, a panache of peacock feathers proper transfixed by an arrow point to the sinister Argent;
Motto: Wznosz? swe oczy
Proclamatio / Cri de guerre: Sas / Drag
My arms are Polish. The hundred and some oldest arms of the Polish nobility are repeated among a larger number of families who all lay a legendary or real claim to the same ancestor or a common allegiance. My arms are also borne by almost 300 separate lineages of different surnames. Later Polish arms granted through ennoblements or matriculations of foreign nobility were in the more typical continental tradition of unique arms.
These arms are also not described by their blazon but by their proper names or proclamatio (zawo?anie) which were both the verbal form of the arms and served as a war cry. In this case there are two separate proclamations - Drag and the more commonly used Sas, recalling the names of the Wallachian nobles Dragos and his son Sas Voivode, rulers of Moldavia in the mid 14th century who bore these arms. The second proclamatio also refers to the legendary Saxon origins of these armigers. Numerous Sas lines appear to have settled in the sub-Carpathian foothills of the then Ruthenian Kingdom of Galicia and in the 14th century they were incorporated into the nobility of the Kingdom of Poland. At least one line (von Draggfy) remained in Hungary. The ?ucki name (like the majority of names of Sas armigers) derives from the name of their original nest or estate. ?ucki is an adjective derived from the name of the village ??ka (Meadow) also known as ?uka in the local Ruthenian vernacular. There are numerous lines, my own from the early eighteenth century has been of Bednar�w located on the ?ukwa upstream from Halicz (Galich). After 1772 these lands were incorporated into the Austrian Empire as the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. The ?ucki through more than 50 separate matriculations of arms and nobility were incorporated into the Austrian nobiliary system in the rank of Ritter.
The symbolism of the arms is lost as the figures derive from pre-heraldic rune like marks consisting of curved and linear figures that later were transformed into heraldic figures and more uniform with individual differences giving way to common forms. The earliest surviving records of ?ucki arms are on seals from 1427. In Polish armorial tradition mottoes are assumed by armigers and changeable. The motto I have chosen which translates as �I raise my eyes� (to the mountains) comes from the opening of Psalm 121.
Displaced by war my parents settled in Canada. There are now three generations living in Canada. These arms have been confirmed by the Canadian Heraldic Authority and recorded in Volume V, page 150 of the Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada on June 15, 2007 This was the first confirmation of ancient arms done in Canada.
This rendition of the arms is by the Russian heraldic artist Alexander Kurov, SHA
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