Recent litterature

Nederlands 'Wapenboek, 's-Gravenhage, 1998. This has a detailed description of origin and history.

Nederlands Patriciaat, 1961, 47 ann.; 1992, 76 ann.

Limburgse Families en hun wapens, F. Goole en P. Severijns, Hasselt-Tongeren 1973. Herin is a partial description without mentioning of crests and mantling.

Genealogische en Heraldische Gedenkwaardigheden in de kerken der provincie Limburg en Belgische en Duitse grensgebieden, Dr. J. Belonje, Maastricht 1961.

Old Armorials

Dictionnaire des figures héraldiques, Th. de Renesse, seven parts, Brussels 1894-1903, our arms are described under the name de Marets.

Armorial Général, J.B. Rietstap, Gouda, 1887.

Collection des Tombes et Epithaphes dans le Pays de Hesbaye, L. de Herckenrode, Gand, 1845.

Recueil Héraldique des Bourguemestres de Liège, , J.P. Gramme, Liège, 1720

Le Miroir des Nobles de Hasbaye, Jacques de Hemricourt, manuscript, 1398. The Marres family is recorded, but a description of arms is not given.

Seals and arms of Pau (de) Marres

Pau de Marres, lived in Maastricht from 1629 until 1707 and was notary and attorney. He was the son of Paulus Matthias Marres and Maayken Smeets and the brother of Servaes Marres, beer brewer in brewery De Wildeman in de Brusselsestraat in Maastricht, who is the ancestor of the Dutch and Belgian families Marres.

In his oldest seal from 1669 we see his arms: party per pale: dexter a tree, sinister a griffin rampant. Crest: a demi griffin.
On both side of the helmet are his initials P and M. (51)

In this seal points the tree in the dexter side obvious to his wife Margaretha Booms (English: tree).
The early medieval Cambray family Mares and the northern Dutch family Marees had as shield holder a griffin. .
Strange is the placement on the dexter side the figure in the arms of his wife on the sinister side of him, a mistake ?

The younger seal dates from 1701 and is on a letter of the Pau Marres in its function of attorney addressed to the aldermen of the county of Geleen and is preserved in their archives.

Arms: Three braided together emptied more leaves. Crest: not recognizable by damage. (52)

In this seal we see the more leaves for the first time, braided together and emptied.

In the weapon on his tombstone he has three marsh leaves tied together.

The seals of the two Elisabeth's (de) Marres

Elisabeth van Leeuwen - Marres, 1672 - 1710, daughter of Pau de Marres and Maria Gehlen, was married with the son of the mayor of the city Venlo in lower Gelre, Johannes Franciscus baron van Leeuwen, general in the Austrian army, commander of the field army in Italy and finally fortress commander of Mantova (Mantua). She always used the seal of her husband. When and where she died is unclear. On 8 Jan 1710 she received in Ingolstadt (Germany) her last child. This son, Engelhard August Baron von Leeuwen will be as his father Major-General and in 1766 a member of the general staff of Austria, Elisabeth probably died in childbirth or shortly thereafter. The first child of the second wife of Frans van Leeuwen, Francesca Sidonia came around 1730 in the monastery Carmellini to Mantova and will have been then eighteen years old. (53)

Arms van Leeuwen: silver, a chevron red charged with three escallops gold. Mantling: red and silver. Crest: an emerging lion turned to the right black , tongue and claws red between two tulips red.

Elisabeth a Busco - Marres, 1696 - 1765, is a daughter of Matthijs Marres and Margaritha Lenarts and a granddaughter of Pau (de) Marres. se also seals with her husbands seal. In 1724 she married Roger a  Busco. He is an officer in the States service in the regiment of General Idsinga and dies young when sill as cornet around 1733. They were living in' s-Hertogenbosch.

Roger a Busco belonged to an ancient noble family of the county Loon. He was a member of the branch of the branch van de Bosch van Mopertingen, whose members are wrote their names and were called a Busco. He is born in Tongeren (Belgium) on 27 September 1702 and was the son of Arnold a Busco and Beatrix Matthijssens. The seal of Elisabeth a Busco-Marres is attached to her will of 1760. (54)

Arms van den Bosch van Mopertingen: Vair and on the second row a barrulet gold charged with three lilies black. Crest: a lily. See: genealogie van den Bosch

Interior St Janskerk.

Tomb Pau de Marres

In the same church stands against the north wall is the memorial of Margarita Elizabeth Cabeliau-the Grijse, It is a large and beautifully sculptured tomb with lions and an underlying skeleton. This contains her sixteen quarter weapons, including a weapon similar to ours and below this is chiseled the name Marre. However this is, unlike the name suggests, the blazon of the family van der Meer from Delft. The waterlily leafs are shown here with stalks.

Pau de Marres, 1629 - 1707, carried in his arms, showing his seal from 1701 three emptied, braided together, more blades. On his tombstone are these free and fork-wise placed together.

A figure that is very similar to the figure in his seal, three braided together more leaves, are also in the banner of Volga Tatar warriors.

Right you see the banner of the Tartars and below an image of a seal of Pau de Marres.

The adjacent, trefoiled, placement, the tops of the leaves pointing to the center, we find also in the first quarter of his shield on his tombstone.

In Germany, this figure is found more often. Heraldic (G.): Dreipaßförmig mit den Spitzen zusammengestellten, rund ausgeschlagenen schwarzen Seeblättern in silbernem Feld.

The old families von Cleen, von Derbach and Nordeck zu Rabenau. Of the latter is known an image from the thirteenth century. Later it developed into a cloverleaf.

This treasure is found in the mound of a nomadic prince and his five wives, it is dated around the middle of the first century of our era. Three of the women wore Sarmato-Alanian jewelry, including that depicted here that is in the British Museum in London.

The pattern of a heart motif is common in the graves of Tillya Tepe in Pakistan, it is frequently found in each grave. It is always turquoise. Elsewere this motif is rare in antiquity. It's probably not a heart but a leaf, an ivy leaf. On the handle of a richly decorated knife the leafs had stalks.