Tuesday 1 September 2009

DOLMANS MAASTRICHT




Dear Andy and Henk:
I do not think there is any connection at all. We have lions and roses, but no lilies. I attach drawings. You will see from the symbols that the lions are red on a gold field, and the roses are silver on a red field. Don't get too excited about colour schemes: these could change between branches of the family and even sometimes between generations.
There are two theories about the roses: The family has a house for quite a long time in Maastricht (15-17th C) called "The Rose" and it may be that this ended up in the coat of arms for that reason. A little more likely: the oldest Dolmans coats of arms had lions and hammers only. One generation then married a lady from a family called de Sauveur, who apparently have roses and oak branches in their coat of arms. They likes this, and combined them (an "alliantiewapen"). But take this with a grain of salt, since I have never really researched this. What I do know - as far as we know anything - is that there were no lilies.
All the best
Maurits

DOELMANS OF MAASTRICHT

My name is Jan Hendrik Sonneveld.
I saw the tombstone in the St. Janskerk in Maastricht, Holland, with three lilies (above right and below left) and the name Doelmans.

In this your site text you speak about a coat of arms with three red lions on gold.

About 1350 the name Sonnevelt got a coat of arms with three red lilies on gold in the western part of Holland.
Plese could you tell me which are the colours of the lilies (certainly not lions) on the tombstone in the church of St John?

J.H. (Henk) Sonneveld