From the arms of related south-czech „vladyků“ to the arms of Zrzavý

Four related tribes have the same parts of the arms. It is Lapaczek from Rzawe, Sádlo from Vrazne, Víta from Rzawe and Chrt from Rtín. The illustrated arms of Zrzawy from Krucenburk is tied together with historical consecutions of all four mentioned tribes assured that the Zrzawy is the direct continued tribe of Jan Lapaczek from Rzawy tribe respectively Jindřich Lapaczek from Dobronic. Family tree of Jan Lapaczek from Rzawe.
Lady Jane Moravec-ová (*1933) born Zrzavá – great-grandmother of our grand-daughter Valerie is a child of this important tribe. And so whether you can believe it or not, Valerie Riedl-ová has got her own coat of arms – the arms of Zrzavý tribe. Here are the predecessors of Valeria

Lapaczek from Rzawe

Lapáčkové from Rzawe is an old czech vladyc tribe, coming from Táborsko, that was marked up to the position of free monsieurs in the end of the 17th century.
Silver shield had a cut down red belt, in timbre there was a staghound sitting on a gold cushion.
The original residence of the tribe was in the village Rzavá (Rzawa) and at the beginning of the 16th century Jan Lapaczek was taxes collector of Bechyňsky region and kept Červene zahorí in the north of Táborsko which his sons John and George had it write down to the municipal boards in 1546 . John also got near Chotoviny, his relative Henry kept Dobronice at Chýnov, later bought Bezděčín and built a fortress here. In 1588 his five sons divided his wealth.

Sádlo from Vrazne

Sádlové from Vrážného is also a name of an old czech vladyc tribe that belonged to the family tree of the south-czech vladycs.
And they everybody had a staghound sitting in quitness on a cushion in timbre. Silver shield had a cut down red belt. The staghound, emblem of hunting, was except of the mentioned tribes used also for other vladyc tribes especially in the southern parts of Czech Republic that are not so famous. At the time of bloom in the 16th century Sádlové kept Liderovice, Kocin, Hlinice, Jedlany, Radic, Vrazne and Hlinany.

Víta from Rzawe

Vítové from Rzawe is an old czech vladyc family, coming from Táborsko, that was in the second half of the 17th century marked up to the position of free monsieurs.
Silver shield had a cut down red belt, in timbre there was a staghound sitting on a gold cushion.
The original residence of the tribe was in the village Rzavá (Rzawa) where is the predecessor of the tribe Víta in the end of the 14th century and this name became later a generic name. Vít was Choustnice´s burgrave since 1414 and his son Mikuláš did the same in Zvíkov. The second son Lipolt was in Zvíkov as well and since 1446 in Dobronice. The third brother Vít was burgrave in Choustník.
In the second half of the 15th century this tribe spread widely and had its estates in several branches. Henry kept Zelec, Zdeněk was a hetman in Jindřichův Hradec, other tribe branch kept Stadlec.
The tribe owned a lot of estates, e.g. the Castle Dobronice, Dub, Dobrejovice, Houznou, Meznou, Oparany, Pacov and others. Bohuslav´s son Mikoláš Aleš was in 1652 rised to the position of free monsieurs. He performed Prague hetman, hetman of Bechyňský region and since 1658 he was hetman of Nové Město.

Chrta from Rtína

Chrtové from Rtína is a name of an old czech vladyc tribe that belonged to the family tree of south-czech vladyc tribe.
Silver shield had a cut down red belt, in timbre there was a staghound sitting on a gold cushion..
The first notes about them are from the end of the 15th century in connection with Bohuslav CH from R thanks to his arguments with citizens from Nové město. This Bohuslav performed important functions in the Czech Kingdom. He was a hetman in Hluboké, Kolín, vice-burgrave of the Prague Castle. Jáchym Ch from R was the hetman of imperial army, his relative John Lipolt was imperial advise, municipal judge and governor of the Czech Kingdom step by step.

There it is the newly born
"arms of Zrzavwy tribe"

Quatation of professor Herman Zerzavý, historian and explorer from Vienna (whose grand-father František was born in 1750 in Krucenburk 31):

We Zerzawy (from Rzawe) are descendents of immemorial czech-moravian knightly tribe that played an important part in the 14th century in south-west Moravia (in the south of Jihlava) in the middle Bohemia and in „Gold Prague“ in Vyšehrad as documented. Chval from Rzave as an „king´s ingle“ of czech king Václav IV.
My tenth predecessor John Lapaczek from Rzawa was born in 1569 in Dobronice in the south-west from Tábor and died in 1634 in Krakov. He outran during religious perplexes of the thirty years´ war in 1622 with his family to Poland. Not until the end of the war his son and nephew Martin came back through Valetzov over Labe, pastorate Konárovice back to Bohemia and from there with some breaks to Krucenburk. Our tribe was called after the village and red colour of the fortress Rzawa at Tábor since the beginning of the 14th century.