Coat_of_Arms

Rott - Bavaria, Saxony ( Nov 1, 1837) Field of blue with chevron, accompanied at the top (en chef) with two stars (deux étoiles) and at the base (en p.[ointe]) with a trefoil all of gold (tout d'or). Cq. (casque=helmet) cour[oneé] (crowning). C. (Cimier [meaning objects]): star or trefloil between a spread of wings of black. - OR: Of blue field with chevron of gold accompanied with two silver stars at the top and a trefoil at the bottom of same color. Casque crown. C. (Cimier): trefoil, between spread wings of gold and blue. L.(Lambrequin [meaning valence/draping]) Gold and blue.

Chapter 3 How the Rottkamp 'Coat of Arms' was made up.
Since there was no coat of arms for the Rottkamp surname in Rietstap's Armorial General, how was a coat of arms fabricated for the name? Recall the description from the 1966 Rottkamp Reunion booklet for the coat of arms (given to the right with italicized notes). Using a heraldic technique of "impalement" that meant, in sum, putting two different coats of arms into one field for a new (and in this case, fanciful) coat of arms, the parties at the Sanson Institute took a coat of arms for the surname Rott and married it with a coat of arms for the surname Kamp. We observe that Bavaria and Saxony are not Westphalia from which the Rottkamps originated. Also, the Kamps of Norway are certainly not in Germany	ARMS: "Per pale (division by a vertical band) azure (blue) and gules (red), in dexter (left side for viewer) a chevron between two mullets (stars) of six (points) in chief (on top) and a trefoil (three leafed stem) in base (at bottom) or (sic, in which) in sinister (right side for viewer) a bull's head cabossed (full faced without neck) argent (silver)."

Translation and explanation Rott - Bavaria, Saxony ( Nov 1, 1837) Field of blue with chevron, accompanied at the top (en chef) with two stars (deux étoiles) and at the base (en p.[ointe]) with a trefoil all of gold (tout d'or). Cq. (casque=helmet) cour[oneé] (crowning). C. (Cimier [meaning objects]): star or trefloil between a spread of wings of black. - OR: Of blue field with chevron of gold accompanied with two silver stars at the top and a trefoil at the bottom of same color. Casque crown. C. (Cimier): trefoil, between spread wings of gold and blue. L.(Lambrequin [meaning valence/draping]) Gold and blue.	J.F. Rietstap Armorial General Vol I Page 617
Kamp - Norway (M.ét=maison éteinte=house extinguished) Field of red (gu.=gules) with a silver (arg.=argent) face-on bull's head (un réncontre de boeuf). C. the face.	J.F. Rietstap Armorial General Vol II Page 1123


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