The Polish clan name and cry ritualized the ius militare, i.e., the power to command an army and they had been used sometime before 1244 to define knightly status.
The names of knightly genealogiae only came to be associated with heraldic devices later in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period. The documentation regarding Raciborz and Albert's tenure is the earliest surviving of the use of the clan name and cry defining the honorable status of Polish knights. I received my good servitors from the land of Poland, and from the clan called Jelito, with my well-disposed knowledge and the cry, , the godło, Nagody, and I established them in the said land of mine, Masovia. In the year 1244, Bolesław, Duke of Masovia, identified members of the knights' clan as members of a genealogia:
A leaf from the "Łaski's Statute" depicting the Polish Senate Coat of arms of Stibor of Stiboricz Near the end of the history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, due to adoptions and other circumstances, all Clans in Poland turned into Heraldic Clans. Other szlachta were not related and their unions were mostly voluntary and based on fellowship and brotherhood rather than kinship, still being full members of the Clan, creating Clan politics like in Clan Ostoja or Clan Abdank, but forming a heraldic clan. Later, when different Houses created different surnames for each property, the House turned into the Clan Odrowąż. The clans that could show kinship belonged to a House ( Polish: Dom), such as the House of Odrowąż. īecause Polish clans ( Polish: Rody) have different origins, only part of the szlachta can be traced all the way back to the traditional old clan system based on kinship. Much written evidence from the Middle Ages demonstrates how some elements of the Polish nobility did emerge from former Slavic rulers that were included in the ranks of the knightly class under the terms of the chivalric law ( ius militare) and iure polonico. Rulers often hired these free warriors and mercenaries to form military units ( Polish: Drużyna) and eventually, in the 11th century during the time of Casimir I the Restorer with the development of feudalism, armies paid by the Prince were replaced by knights that were paid in land. Unlike Western Europe, in Poland, the Polish nobles szlachta did not emerge exclusively from the feudal class of knights but stemmed in great part from earlier Slavic local rulers and free warriors and mercenaries.
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