The Grocholski House in the ancient Sandomierz Voivodeship, which mentions the foundation in Grocholice of that church… There the epitaphs still agree with the foundation… There also their graves in front of the great altar, on the stones the Syrokomla coat of arms was in the year 1583.
HERALDIC LEGEND
Everyone agrees that this coat of arms was acquired in Poland and that the knight called Syrokomla of the Abdank coat of arms was granted a cross to his ancestral emblem because he defeated and conquered a Prussian pagan who challenged Polish warriors to single combat and insulted the Christian name; thus, as a defender of the crucified God, a cross was added.
Kasper Niesiecki, Herbarz, VIII, 589
DESCRIPTION OF THE COAT OF ARMS
The ordinary white Abdank should be on a red field, but at the top in the middle, there is a golden cross. On the helmet above the crown, there is the same white Abdank with a cross.
Kasper Niesiecki, Herbarz, VIII, 589
SYROKOMLYA – Genus Polonicum modestique in eo viri.
SYROKOMLA – A Polish family and modest men within it.
Jan Długosz, Insignia, 27
Delineatio
Sunt Arma Habdank, sed ex Medio excesit sursum aurea crux, arma sunt candida, campus sanguineus. Super coronam candem Arma. (ut Bielsc: at Paproc: ins Oper.)
Origin.
Veninut ex additione pro meritis viro militari dicto Syrokomla de Armis Abdank ut not auit Bielscius fol. 277. Cum enim insolenter Pruscius Miles Ladislai Łoktek temporibus 1331. provocaret Militem nostrum in theatrum duelli, at que inter obiurgationes diras Christi quag; nomen et gloriam ignominia repleret, nobilis de armis Habdank pio motus affectu contra i… iquum militem processit, atque dira minantem diris supposuit maribus. Laetus Rex Auream crucem merenti nobili in praemium obtulit, et armis adfixit. Antiquitatem Armorum etiam indicat, quod Episcopus Plocensis de his armis Jacobus Anno 1391 H… …
By the Grace of God and the King
Non immeritis ad crucem erectam in Theatro Impressarum Ioannes Ferus apposuit Christianum dogma Pignus divini Amoris. Ipse namque Salvator incitando mortalium genus instrubat dicens: “Videte est dolor sicut dolor meus”.
Summa haec gratia fuerunt Dei, summum quoque pignus crux sancta existet.
Hunc D. August lib de Catech. Rud. Anua Amorem illies qui amore tui amoris descendit interim Virginio et tibi amorem suum amori tuo Copulavit”.
Arma presentia dum inspicio, considero crucem subscribere illis iam licebit:
Gratia Dei et Regis Henricus 2 Borbonius Navarre Rex refert. Jacobius Tiportius in Symbolis denoti humilisque erga Deum gratia formanerat Symbolum literam H a quatuor partibus ornatam rosis, et addidit legendum: “Gratia Dei sum id quos sum”; “Nil hoc vero verius est”.
Idem et Syrokomla miles armis suis exprimit dicens: “Gratia Dei qui instuxit manus meas ad pugnam pro fide Christi, et gratia Regis qui aura crucefactum collustramit meum, sum id quod sum”.
Expressit gladio et affectu quod instruebat D. August. Constans et perfectus debet esse amor noster, ut si nesse fuerit, amore illius moriamur, qui amore nostri placide ae benigne mori dignatus est Peacuit in proposito Illustris et Reverendiss. Scipio Gonzaga Presb. Card. et Partriarcha in Hierusalem, qui ad Crucem in Manu inprimere docuerat: “Potius mori quam fidem fallere” …it Typotius: “Qui enim Christum confessus, fuerit coram hominibus confitebitur eum Patrem qui in Coelis est”.
Justinus Imperator secreti cuiusdam gratia in nulle is suis imprimi decrenit literam M, quam Crucibus et stellis a lateribus adornanit qui subs… sit:” Cuis p… et pigeat” C. lul Caes de Nun. Rom: Si co… iec placebit docuit quo vir fit magnus, et quo Minimus: “Amore et Pudore” enim Dei et Patriae, pudorem… … Consilium non habet; set totus scopus sic amantis et Chrisitus et Deus: et eo sit magnis at que illi splendores, honores, lumina stellae bicebunt. Minimus vero in Regno et Familia sit, non amore, non pudore, unde Apocalips.
Qui sordet sordescant adhuc: “Pugnavit sic D. Martinus Amore, pugnavit Themistocles pudore. … m Mitridatem humiliter natum triumphantem conspexit. Refloreat igitur in posteritate Pareneis Syrokomlae Meritum et militia accedero praemium, Gratia Dei et Regis non seguiter incipiet. Igitur itote per annos seculaque et priscae titulos praecedite famae.
Lineage of the Syrokomla Family
Syrokomla, the distinguished knight, who first received such arms in the year 1331 as we mentioned at the beginning, who since certain goods were granted, founded the village of Syrokomla in the Krakow Palatinate… Grocholscijae, Grocholice, in the Sandomierz Palatinate.
They are recorded as the builders of the church and its founders there. Jacob Grocholski, Canon of Krakow, had it made in the year 1460. “Others, having accepted the division of goods, began to note their family from Grabów in the Radom district… for they were the goods of the German brothers Nicholas and Stanislaus Grocholski, Grocholice, Grabów, and Paciorkowa Wola. Hence, due to the division of goods among themselves, they were variously named. Nicholas Grocholski, a man known for his judgment, had 2 daughters, Albert and Andrew, the latter married Margaret Wielgorska and had sons Valentine and Matthew, who later became religious in the Dominican Order and was a Master of Sacred Theology and Provincial, his daughters Szartowska and Makowska. Andrew, on the other hand, a distinguished knight in Podolia, after various warlike deeds, married Elisabeth Wydżanka of Rzyczyce, sister of the subjudge of Lviv, and left sons Stanislaus who took vows to God in the Dominican Order, John.
A valiant man, Ezechiel, who consecrated his days to the business of the Lord of Heaven and was a Theology Lecturer among the Dominicans and Provincial in the Province of Russia in A. 1644, Andrew and Christopher, knights, whose sister Lucas Guzelphi. Stanislaus, brother of Nicholas, from Barbara of Podhaice Wolska left Lucas, Andrew, George, and John, and from another marriage Job George was killed in Rokosz, trampled by cavalry when defending the Royal party, Job from Sulimirska left offspring. Thomas, a knight.
Compiled based on handwritten notes made by my great-grandmother Zofia née Count Zamoyski Tadeuszowa Grocholska.