Registered:
The
International Register
of Arms, 14th March
2023. Registration No.
0669 (Vol.4).
Arms: Per fess, the
chief per pale; dexter
Or, a torteau; sinister
Azure, a mullet Argent;
the base Gules a
horseshoe Argent opening
to chief; Over-all a
fess Argent.
Crest:A horseshoe
Argent opening to
chief.
Motto: None
Assumed: Probably
late XVIII century.
The family is a Burgher family that resided in Vienna. Josef
served as a Captain of
the infantry regiment
N.16 in the
Austro-Hungarian
Monarchy in the last
quarter of the XIX
century. He was married
to Barbara Winter and
had a daughter, Olga. In
the army, he befriended
Captain (later: Colonel)
Josef Cantarutti of
(di/von) Campolongo, who
married Olga in 1897
after obtaining a
special marriage license
as she was only 17 years
old.
There
is no grant of
arms in
existence;
however, the
arms are
represented in a
late XVIII –
early XIX
century silver
seal and in a
stone on Olga’s
tomb.
The
arms have been
registered at
the request of
Daniele Scarpi,
son of Josef and
Olga’s only
granddaughter;
Captain Josef
Weikert, was the
father of
Daniele Scarpi’s
maternal
great-grandmother.
