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Jeffrey
Robert Heeter, KHS
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Registered: The
International Register
of Arms, 06 Dec. 2018.
Registration No. 0473
(Vol.3).
Arms:
Argent, flaunched chequy
Gules and Argent upon a
mound of three hillocks
Vert a tower sans
entrance Gules.
Crest:
Between a pair of
Vesselhorns per fess
Argent and Gules, upon a
mound of three hillocks
Vert a tower sans
entrance Gules; the
whole issuing from a
“Heeter Coronet”
(comprising of four
heater shields upon a
circlet) Or.
Motto:
Spring
Über Deinen Schatten
(Jump Over Your Shadow)
Badge:
A Heeter Coronet Blue
Celeste.
Assumed: United
States of America, 12th
January 2018.
Arms
Designed by The Armorial
Register® in
consultation with the
Armiger.
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The
armiger is a descendant
of and successor in line
to William Heater of
Ohio, USA (b. 1842. d.
1888), who served in the
Union Army during the US
Civil War ca. 1864 and
died 1888 of
complications from an
illness contracted
during his military
service. William
Heater's line is a cadet
branch of a family first
seen in America when
Hanß Adam Hüter arrived
in Philadelphia from
Germany 14 Sep. 1751.
Hüter, by trade a
tailor, served as a
Second Lieutenant during
the American War of
Independence and as a
judge in the vicinity of
Berks County,
Pennsylvania.
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While
no documented grants or
registrations of arms to
William Heater are
presently known to
exist, William Heater's
heirs have at times used
(assumed) arms similar
in motif but differenced
from those represented
as Huter on plate 164 of
Siebmacher's Wappenbuch
von 1605. Typical
differences from
Siebmacher’s example
have included changes in
tincture, division of
the field, and—in more
recent times—an addition
of flaunching to the
shield. Because no
direct genealogical
relationship between
Hüter of Pennsylvania
and Siebmacher’s Huter
can be proven, such
differenced arms are
understood to be an
allusion to the family's
ancient surname and
German origin.
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and registering his arms,
the armiger has chosen to
retain the key elements of
both the ancient arms and
the more recent usage by
his family, namely: the
tower as principal charge,
the tower repeated on the
crest (a typical feature
of German arms), and the
argent and gules colour
scheme. The armiger has,
however, elected to make
several changes to the
blazon to reflect the
modern makeup of his
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In
keeping with the
American preference to
avoid marshalling
(despite his mother
being a heraldic
co-heiress to a cadet
branch of Burazin of
Split), the armiger has
changed the field of the
shield flaunching from
solid to a chequy argent
and gules, reminiscent
of the Croatian Grb
(coat of arms) to honour
his mother's Croatian
heritage.
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Again
in lieu of marshalling,
the armiger has added a
crest coronet—more
commonly associated with
English and continental
heraldry than German or
Scandinavian—in memory
of his paternal
grandmother, heraldic
heiress to a cadet
branch of Nickols of
Reading (Massachusetts)
that intermarried with
other founding families
of Massachusetts,
Connecticut, and New
Hampshire in New England
including those of the
Leiden Separatists of
Plymouth. To that end,
the armiger has
commissioned the
emblazonment of the
canting Heeter Coronet—a
coronet of heater-shaped
shields (similar to the
more typical naval
crown)—as a play on the
modern pronunciation of
his surname.
Vesselhorn (bovine horns
found almost exclusively
in German and
Scandinavian Heraldry)
argent and gules were
added to the crest in
deference to his
paternal grandfather’s
Germanic origins.
The resulting blazon is
intended to reflect
correct German heraldry
while incorporating
elements of three
distinct nationalities
and traditions into a
coherent whole.
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