Tomaszów Mazowiecki
TOMASZÓW MAZOWIECKI
Province: Łódź
County: Tomaszów Mazowiecki
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Origin/meaning
To the origin of the arms there is the following legend :
Once the English King had two children, a son and a daughter. On his deathbed, he endowed the son with the King's authority, and the daughter with real estates and the royal treasure. As the girl was greatly admired, her brother was afraid of losing the estate and, on advice of his gentry and advisors, he threw her to a ferocious bear. However, the young lady tamed the dangerous beast at once. When the brother learned, about it, he apologised his sister and married her to the Prince of Lorraine. The couple had several sons. Each of them was granted the coat of arms with "a lady on the bear". Those lads or their descendants spread out all over the continent. Some of them reached Bohemia and then came to Poland and settled in what is now Tomaszow Mazowiecki.
 The arms in the Kawa Hag album +/- 1932 |
 The arms as shown in 1970 |
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