Kusza Coat of Arms
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Kusza - is a Polish Coat of Arms
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Families using the main variant of the coat are: Bystrycki, Bystrzycki, Korejwa or Koreywa, Leszczynowicz, Kosicki, Kuszcz, Kuszczyński, Maszkiewicz, Maślakiewicz, Oławski, and Otawski.
Families using Kusza II are Bajrasz, and Czyczuda.
Polish heraldry
Polish heraldry is a branch of heraldry focused on studying the development of coats of arms in the lands of historical Poland , as well as specifically-Polish traits of heraldry. The term is also used to refer to Polish heraldic system, as opposed to systems used elsewhere, notably in Western Europe...
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Families using the main variant of the coat are: Bystrycki, Bystrzycki, Korejwa or Koreywa, Leszczynowicz, Kosicki, Kuszcz, Kuszczyński, Maszkiewicz, Maślakiewicz, Oławski, and Otawski.
Families using Kusza II are Bajrasz, and Czyczuda.
Variations
There are four variations of this coat of arms:- KUSZA I "On a red field, a silver crossbow, without the arrow, and pointing downwards"
- KUSZA II "On a red field, a silver crossbow, without the arrow, pointing upwards"
- KUSZA III "On a red field, a silver crossbow, with a cyphered arrow, pointing upwards, and beneath the charge three silver chevrons (battons)"
- KUSZA IV "On a red field, a silver crossbow (with an arrow), pointing downwards, sometimes upwards".