Zawołanie, herb, ród: pamięć i tradycje heraldyczne Tatarów litewskich

ENThe general knowledge of Lithuanian Tatars about their lineage, historical awareness, dates back to the Grand Duke Vytautas and his successors. Some of the family legends (of Dowgiałło, Sobolewski and others) refer to the early settlement period. However, the actual genealogical traditions, recorded in lineages of the nobility in 19th century, usually did not date back more than several generations, so to 18th century or 17th at most. Even the lineages of aristocratic families originating from the excellent lineages of Orda (whose ancestors were using the title prince and mirza as early as in the beginning of the 16th century) have reached the 19th-20th century in a heavily abridged or jumbled condition (for example the genealogies of the princes Kryczyński, Juszyński, Ułan). Quite'important elements in the tradition of the Lithuanian Tatars are coats of arms, in most cases adopted by the Tatar nobility only in the beginning of the 19th century, in the post-partition period, but in some cases referring to authentic heraldic traditions dating back to at least 16th century. Using Polish-Lithuanian coats of arms by the Tatar nobility, and at the same time placing their “own” Tatar coats of arms in Polish armorials, indicates complete assimilation of this group with the rest of the Polish nobility in the post-partition period of the 19th-20th century.