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Heinrich Kűbler (1725 - 1796) married his sweetheart in 1760 in Germany. Her name was Mary Amelia Pierce. They immigrated to the Virginia colony in America and lost a baby girl that same year. The Virginia Kiblers, the resulting founding American family of our Kibler lineage, have a history in Virginia since before the Revolutionary war to present. Before he came to America, Heinrich was in Weinheim, Germany. His family has a history in a town SE of Weinheim, a walled medieval city on a plateau overlooking the Tauber River and known as a family of the area since 1250 CE. The name of this town is Rothenburg ob der Tauber in Bavaria, Germany and has been there since 800 CE. My father, Walter Daniel, 3rd son of Markwood Martin, said his family was from the Black Forest region of Germany. The map below illustrates the location of these places.
This puts our family right smack in the middle of medieval Europe Starting in the middle is fine with me. These website pages on medieval Europe and the nature of Heraldry and Armorial Bearings, a Coat of Arms, will be subsequently supplemented with two more sections: one on the earlier history and prehistory of our people and a section on the Kibler~Kűbler Coat of Arms, medieval and American history. |
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The intent of the first part of this site on the Kibler Family is to introduce a place in time when our ancestors lived and worked, hunted stags in the forest, tended gardens, and raised children, surviving incredible odds in an environment of wars, famines, pestilences, and changing cultures. We have some Coat of Arms to share. Some of you have inquired about designing your own Coat of Arms including the Kibler~Kűbler heritage and a study of this information takes us to medieval SW Germany. In this first section, I have gone through all the parts of a Coat of Arms armorial display to be informative about elements used, what the tradition means, and offer some background to prepare for analyzing the Kibler~Kűbler Coat of Arms relative to understanding who our people were and are. It's really quite a huge story. Some of the sites online with info on heraldry aren't entirely factually accurate. I've tried not to make the same mistake and sourced my information from authoritative texts. I have shamelessly used text excerpts and maps from various sources without giving proper footnotes. My sources are located in the links provided in "Heraldry Links"; and so far as I know, these links go to reliable information. I encourage anyone interested, to investigate available information for themselves and regard these pages I have put together as introductory.
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heraldry books I own and reference are: I very much recommend A COMPLETE GUIDE TO HERALDRY by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies.(1871-1928), published 1909, for more than a compendium of interesting and authoritative information on Heraldry and all aspects thereof. In Heraldry Links and on each heraldry page, I have included a link to this text online. Fox-Davies tells many very entertaining stories relevant to his discussions, 'the' standing authority in English heraldry, he relates other country's heraldry systems as well. |
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Any who have other links or information to contribute, corrections and broken links too, email me and I will add to/correct these pages. If you do not have a high speed Internet connection (I'm still on a phone-modem connection myself) please be patient while each page loads; these pages are graphic intensive. Any image on a page that doesn't load and there is only the little white box with a red x, just Right-click on the red x box, select "show image", and the graphic will load for you. All text and images are copy-protected because, although it is permissible to duplicate copyrighted material for non-commercial personal or educational purposes I am not granted to distribute the same in all cases. If any of you want a copy of an image, email me for it. Although I've tried to keep images at a minimum, it's rather difficult since this site is all about visual representation and heraldic art. Some of the example images are from Internet resources, some I made, and others are from Fox-Davies or scanned from my books. I made the site backgrounds and graphics by various means. All of these pages are approximately the same size, in terms of load-time. Usually I make linked screen-shot size pages but with so much info to cover, I decided to simplify and use scroll-down pages; the text is not interlinked other than the menus in the header and footer of each page, at this time. Have split some pages but they tended to grow back, so decided what to go with, relative to background info that assists understanding the Kibler~Kubler phenomena. And a beautiful phenomena it is !!!
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Here's a link
to a pop-up window to Fox-Davies book online for easy access:
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