Chodkiewicz coat of arms

Chodkiewicz
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Alternative names	Kościesza odm. Chodkiewicz
Families	1 names Chodkiewicz (Chodźkiewicz)
Divisions	Gmina Gródek, Gródek

Chodkiewicz (Gryf z Mieczem) is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by the Chodkiewicz family in the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. A variant of the Kościesza with the Gryf coat of arms.

Notable bearers

Notable bearers of this coat of arms include:

• Chodkiewicz family
• Chodko Jurewicz (c.1431–1447), founder of Chodkiewicz clan
• Ivan Chodkiewicz (?–1484), founder of the Chodkiewicz family
• Aleksander Chodkiewicz (1457–1549), voivode of the Nowogródek Voivodeship, Grand Marshal of Lithuania
• Yurii Chodkiewicz (1524–1569), voivode of the Nowogródek Voivodeship
• Hieronim Chodkiewicz (1500–1561), Grand Lithuanian Podczaszy, Elder of Samogitia, Count of the Roman Empire
• Ivan Hieronimowicz Chodkiewicz (1537–1579), Livonian hetman, Grand Lithuanian Marshall, castellan of Vilnius.
• Grzegorz Chodkiewicz (?–1572), Grand Hetman of Lithuania
• Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560–1621), Grand Hetman of Lithuania
• Krzysztof Chodkiewicz (?–1652), castellan of Vilnius, voivode of Vilnius Voivodship
• Jan Kazimierz Chodkiewicz (1616–1660), castellan of Vilnius
• Anna Eufrozyna Chodkiewicz (c. 1600 – c. 1631), married Prokop Sieniawski in 1623
• Teresa Chodkiewicz (1645–1672), married Stanisław Bonifacy Krasiński about 1667

Gallery

• POL COA Chodkiewicz II.svg

  Coat of arms of Counts Chodkiewicz (a combination of Kościesza, Gryf, Łabędź, Pogoń Litewska and Korczak coat of arms

See also

• Polish heraldry
• Heraldic family
• List of Polish nobility coats of arms

Bibliography

• Herbarz polski, Tadeusz Gajl, Gdańsk 2007, ISBN 978-83-60597-10-1