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
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
