Alabanda
Alternative name(s)	Alaband, Albalant, Alba Luna, Albaluna, Alba-luna, Allabanda, Bielina, Koniczek, Koniowaszyja
Earliest mention	1278
Families	6 names Alabanda, Azulewicz, Frezer, Fryzer, Koproski, Koprowski

Alabanda is a Polish nobility coat of arms, used by several szlachta families in the times of the Kingdom of Poland.

According to a legend the Alabanda coat of arms comes from the times of the Piast dynasty in the 12th century. It was first mentioned in records in 1278^[1] and no longer used after the 16th century.^[2]

Escutcheon: Sable (or Azure) a horse head Argent issuant from a crescent of the same. Crest: Three (or five) ostrich feathers.

Notable bearers of this coat of arms include:

• Stefan de Kobylagłowa
• Strzeżywoj de Kobylagłowa
• Jan Frezer^{[citation needed]}, burgrave of Kraków, secretary of the Tarnogród Confederation

• 
  Seal of Stefan de Kobylaglowa from 1278

• Polish heraldry
• Heraldic family
• List of Polish nobility coats of arms

• Tadeusz Gajl: Herbarz polski od średniowiecza do XX wieku : ponad 4500 herbów szlacheckich 37 tysięcy nazwisk 55 tysięcy rodów. L&L, 2007. ISBN 978-83-60597-10-1.
• Franciszek Piekosiński: Heraldyka polska wieków średnich, Kraków, 1899, s.196
• Juliusz Karol Ostrowski: Księga herbowa rodów polskich, Warszawa, 1897, T.1, s.10
• Franciszek Piekosiński, Pieczęcie polskie str. 123
• Józef Szymański: Herbarz rycerstwa polskiego z XVI wieku. Warszawa: DiG, 2001, s. 19. ISBN 83-7181-217-5.

• http://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Encyklopedia_staropolska/Alabanda

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