Coat of Arms
The ancestral coat of the lords of Seinsheim consisted of vertical stripes in silver and blue.
In 1566, when John Younger of Schwarzenberg was ennobled, he added an inescutcheon with a silver tower for Schwarzenberg.
In 1599 Adolf zu Schwarzenberg added a quarter showing the head of a Turk pecked by a raven, to symbolize the conquest of a Turkish fortress in Hungary known in German as Raab ('Raven').
In 1688, quarters were added for the domains of Sulz, Brandis (canting arms: a brand) and the Landgraviate of Klettgau.
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