11 sis^mi- If t^U^ 3';, r*^] jH. S CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Cornell University Library CS71 .H564 1908 3 1924 029 842 204 olin Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029842204 Coat of Arms of Ancient Herr Family. Seedescription on oppositepage. The following translation from the German is of much interest : ' The race of Herr descended from a very ancient fam- ' — ily ; is free that is to say, of noble origin. . . . I^ike- wise from time immemorial, its knights were brave and worthy. Possessing in Schwaben vast and rich . . estates, the name of which was called andwritten Hern von Bilried. The father of this race was called the . . Schwabish Knight Hugo, the Herr or Lord of Bilried. . . . In the year 1009 flourished and was known to all, the family from whom that of Herr is descended. . . . But in the fifteenth century several of the race resigned their nobilitj' and settled as citizens They, however, re- . . tained their noble name and their Coat of Arms, and in the year 1593 John Herr, or Lord of Bilried, obtained from the Emperor Ferdinand, in Schwabish Hall, a written testimo- nial, proving for his flourishing family their Coat of Arms, their free and noble descent and the possession of their race to the latest generation." "And this Coat of Arms yet rightly belongs to the present living family of Herr." E. B. ViEN. Recorded iii the Register ofnobtefamities, zvitli ttieir Coatof Arms. Book 5, page2^S.