Farciennes

	FARCIENNES Country : Belgium Province : Hainaut Additions: 1977 Pironchamps Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"250px","height":"250px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":7,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":50.4316900000000032378011383116245269775390625,"lon":4.54617999999999966576069709844887256622314453125,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon
French	Bandé de vair et de gueules de six pièces. L'écu sommé d'une couronne à trois fleurons séparés par un groupe de trois perles et entouré du collier de la Toison d'Or.
English	blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on October 26, 1955 and again on February 24, 1978.

The arms are those of the Lords of Longueval. Farciennes was acquired in 1610 by Albert de Longueval. In 1688 Charles-Philippe de Longueval, Count of Bucquoi and Gratzen, Lord of Farciennes, was made Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and member of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The family held the estate until 1747.

The estate had been in possession of many families during the centuries. The local council seals generally showed the personal seals of the council members. The only seal of the estate itself is on a charter dating from April 17 1765. It shows the Longueval arms as well as the arms of the Counts of Fours, their successors.

The arms were thus granted as shown on the seal. The variation of the vair in the arms on the seal was slightly different from the vair as used by the family, see Thimougies, which was granted the more common version of the family arms.

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