Gerbrecht Breytenbach

Heraldry of South African Families / Coats of arms, crests, ancestry by C.PAMA/ A. A. Balkema, 1972.

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BREYTENBACH

Quarterly all or, 1 and 4 two circular wolf-traps in pale, 2 and 3 a z-shaped hook, all sable. Crest: a wolf sejant proper between a pair of wings or, the dexter charged with a circular wolf-trap and the sinister with a hook, as on the arms, all sable. [443]

Johan(n) Jacob Breytenbach, fr. Wirsberg or Würsburg. Arr. 1738, burgher 1747. Farmed in the district of Swellendam; d. 1786. Marr. 3.12.1741 Maria Botha, w.o. Pieter Bezuidenhout; remarr. 5.10.1749 Gerbrecht Bezuidenhout (14 children).

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[443]: Loxton, ibid, p. 47. Arms of the barons Breidenbach zu Breidenstein (Southern Germany) but they bear the hooks azure and charged with three trefoils argent which is

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[443 cont.]: repeated on the sinister wing of the crest.

(Bygevoeg deur Y. DROST op 10 MAART 2024)

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