The Knauss Homestead - Emmaus, PA - Established 1777
Knauss Coat of Arms
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The Knauss Homestead - Emmaus, PA - Established 1777
Knauss Coat of Arms
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There is much misconception in America as to the nature and use of armorial bearings. It is generally considered that the coat of arms of an ancestor descends to the family and that this idea has been accepted by many American families. Inasmuch as granting of a special insignias a European custom and there is no such custom in this country, no particular harm is done by families "appropriating" such heraldic devices as may have been bestowed upon an ancestor. However, in European countries, a coat of arms is granted only to an individual and may not be appropriated by the family or descendants. Not being able to make a satisfactory search of the continental ancestors of Lukas Knauss with a view of determining if any grant had been made to a member of his family, a coat of arms was retained in a French work by our late historian James Owen Knauss and published in 1915. A description of the coat of arms follows: Knauss (Basel), Gules (Red) with a tree in green, having its sides two rams of silver (white), rampant (rearing on the hind legs) and facing each other, with horns of gold (yellow), the whole supported by a mound of green. Crete or crest, a tree in green upon a mound of the same (color), in argent (white) and gules (red). Records have since been located showing that a number of armorial bearings were issued in Germany to persons bearing the family name of Knauss but of who no proof of being ancestrally related to our progenitor, Lukas Knauss
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