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From: "Leon Stevens" <>
Subject: Re: A question......
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 17:44:39 -0400


By the way, I should note, that Eremeev shows an identical coat of arms to that of his Chmielnicki entry, for Cossack Hetman Gnata Wasilewicz, but correctly identifies it as "Syrokomla." Also, Cossack Hetman Iwan Wigowski used a variant of the Abdank arms which contains a black double chevron on a white or silver field with no crest.

>>> "Leon Stevens" <> 05/31/01 05:23PM >>>
Unfortunately Chmielnicki's clan affiliation is clouded by a series of errors beginning with Paprocki. In his armorial Herby hetmaniv Ukrainy ("Arms of the Hetmans of Ukraine") Igor Eremeev identifies Bohdan Chmielnicki's arms as "Abdank" but in describing the history of the arms, he closely paraphrases Paprocki's generally discredited myth of origin and accepts Paprocki's mistaken notion, that Syrokomla is a variant of Abdank/Awdaniec. During Chmielnicki's lifetime Paprocki was as yet still the most authoritative work on Commonwealth heraldry. Chmielnicki was a highly educated man, having completed studies at the Jesuit College in Lwow. He was fluent in 5 languages, and he must surely have at least once examined Paprocki's work. There can be no questioning the fact, that Chmielnicki himself identified his herb as "Abdank." Chmielnicki began his military career by serving as the Zaporozhian war secretary, and finally rose to become its commander. A surviving title pag!
e of the Zaporozhian war registry reproduces Chmielnicki's arms, where it is identified in bold letters as "Klenot P(ana) Hmelnitski" ("The Escutcheon of L(ord) Chmielnicki") in the text below the arms, "Abdank" is set off again in bold letters. However, the charge is that of Syrokomla, but unlike Syrokomla and Abdank, the crown on the helmet contains 5 white ostrich plumes. Chmielnicki's father was born in Mazowsze and died at the battle of Cecora. Bohdan was born in Czehryn in Ukraine Biographer Janusz Kaczmarczyk says that circumstances in Bohan's life all point to the nobility status of his family (Education, military career, property etc., but Bohan may have experienced difficulty documenting his family's nobility, in particular during a trial when a magnate named Czaplinski successfully sued him for his family's property at Subotow, seized it, destroyed it, had Chmielnicki thrown into prison, and raped his betrothed. (These incidents alone explain the ferocity of!
the subsequent Chmielnicki uprising.) Kaczmarczyk says that the offi
of Bohdan's son Jerzy by the Sejm, should not be construed as a "conferring of nobility" but as a mere confirmation of it in the interests of peace in Ukraine. He says, that some writers are wrong in calling this act "an ennoblement." Most historians, encyclopedias etc. describe Bohdan as having been of noble descent. Herb Masalski is clearly NOT the arms of Bohdan nor his family, a fact to which his own war registry plainly and unequivocally testifies. Heralds as recent as Leszczyc repeat the Masalski error. (Herb Masalski features an "M" shape instead of a "W" shape, with a cross standing in the "M's" central valley.)

>>> Adam PSZCZOLKOWSKI <> 05/31/01 11:58AM >>>
On Thu, 31 May 2001 wrote:

>
> W.P. Adam
>
> The Polska Encyklopedja Szlachecka, vol. IV. pg. 347 cites Jerzy
> Chmielnicki h.MASSALSKI odm. 1659, nobilitowany , Chmielnik Litynski.
> (Konstytucje; i Borkowski as reference) Bohdan was the father of
> Jerzy, and died in 1649 at age 57; Hetman Kozacki (Historia Polski,
> literatury i.t.p.)


Bohdan Chmielnicki died in 1657.
His coat you find at the next address:
http://heraldry.com.ua/MAIN/main_eng.html

Jan Wyhowski, Polish nobleman too, was succesor of Chmielnicki.
Wyhowski made a peace between Kozacks and Rzeczpospolita
(according to ugoda hadziacka) in 1658.

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