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by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 13 Oct 2001, after image by Peter Exner;
adopted 26 May 2000
![[Hermanův Mestec CoA]](../images/c/cz-cr)hm.jpg)
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by Jarig Bakker, 14 Oct 2001
The armorial legends refering to almost all the coats of arms are the most beautiful chapter of the heraldry. They are closely connected with the genealogies or with some events. Our town is even connected with two armorial legends and with several opinions of the historians on its foundation. The oldest legend was chronicled by our native – a poet Rudolf Pokorný at first.
Once upon a time Patrician Heřman with his wife lived on the fortness Mrdice between the present town and the village Kleąice. They lived together in harmony and asked God for the birth of kids. God heard of their pleas freely, they gave birth to twelve sons altogether. After their death the sons didn´t know with high spirits which way to go. They became masters of the whole region and they built up themselves a small town Heřmanův Městec. They were weary of the orderly life and so according to an example of neighbouring patricians and Lord of Lichtenburk they began to plunder in the local region. They attacked wealthy travellers and traders. However, when they overstepted the bounds of decency, the king decided to put a stop to their bluster. He dispatched the troops and it laid siege to the town and encircled it. The family of Heřman were passed for the greatest evil – doers of the region. The besieged brothers despatched a message and a request for the help to the neighbours of the same character. By the stream they sent the leaf of the water – lily like an omen that „the water had already run to the mug to Lords.“ Because the neighbours weren´t preferable to them and they were afraid not to come to an end at them too, they drew up for help to them and they crushed the king´s troops with collective powers. Afterwards in memory of it the family of Heřman took the leaf of the water – lily into their coat of arms. It was at the signal that the shock of the king had come from the water – lily. Their town got this heraldry and it has got it up to the present day.
Since the brothers clearly suspected that the king wouldn´t let it go at that, they built up quickly more fortnesses for their major safety and they connected the fortness in Kostelec with the fortness in Mrdice with an underground corridor. Then they started to rage even more than till this time. But the king dispatched the troops again. However this time the troops first humiliated the neighbours of Mrdice and only after it they drew near the town. At that t