Please Help Identify This Crest!

[ToneDrone]

Hi everyone. New here. Hoping someone can help identify this crest I received as a gift. Thanks in advance for any help!

[Skoosh]

North Europe someplace?

Skoosh.

[KGarrad]

What you have pictured is a coat-of-arms.
The crests are the helmets, and associated bits, on top of the shield

Multiple helmets, and crests, are indicative of Northern European Heraldry - as Skoosh already said.

Very seldom, if ever, seen on English Heraldry.
And not on Scots Heraldry either, I believe?

The wikipedia entry on Helmets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmet_(heraldry)) says:
In some traditions, especially German and Nordic heraldry, two or three helmets (and sometimes more) may be used in a single achievement of arms, each representing a fief to which the bearer has a right. For this reason, the helmets and crests in German and Nordic arms are considered to be essential to the coat of arms and are never separated from it.

[ToneDrone]

Thanks all! Is there any way to determine specifically where it came from or what it means?

[KGarrad]

You would need to engage a researcher who specialises in German Heraldry.
Don't think they would be cheap?

[ToneDrone]

You would need to engage a researcher who specialises in German Heraldry.
Don't think they would be cheap?

Thanks KGarrad. Where are all the RootsChat members who are researchers who specialise in German Heraldry??? LOL

[Skoosh]

A crown with 8 arches, most European crowns ditto! supporters 2 crowned lions & 4 lions on the shield. Looks a bit like Luxembourg? Google their arms.

Skoosh. 

[davecapps]

Looks like Skoosh is right, it´s Luxembourg

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_(Luxemburg)#

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Luxembourg#/media/File:Luxemburg_groot_wapen_1898.svg

just for the  books, i have no idea whatsoever of heraldry
I am just forwarding the answers from other very competent people i have asked.

Shield:
2 golden, crowned lions, red tongued
A royal crown with purple ermine cloak

The shield has 16 Fields

Field 1: Grafschaft Saarbrücken: Blue, with silver crosses and golden lion.
Field 2: Herrschaft Merenberg: green with golden cross
Field 3: Grafen von Weilnau, 2 red lions on a gold background.
Field 4: Grafen von Moers, black bar on a gold background
Field 5: Grafen von Katzenelnbogen, crowned red lion on a gold background.
Field 8: Grafen von Saarwerden, a red tongued double eagle on black backround
Field 9: Grafen von Dietz, 2 golden lions on a red background.
Field 12: Geroldseck-Lahr, red bar on a gold background
Field 13: Grafschaft Vianden, silver bar on a red background
Field 14: Burggrafen von Kirchberg, 3 black vertical bars on a silver background.
Field 15: Grafen von Sayn, crowned golden lion on a red background.
Field 16: Lahr-Mahlberg, crowned black lion on a golden background.

Middle shield / quartered
Fields 1 und 4: Herzogtum Nassau: red tongued golden crowned lions on a blue background.

Fields 2 und 3: Großherzogtum Luxemburg, double tailed crowned red lions on a blue background with silver stripes

the crest has 6 helmets:
1: Grafschaft Nassau.
2: Großherzogtum Luxemburg.
3: Grafschaft Saarbrücken.
4: Grafschaft Dietz.
5: Grafschaft Moers.
6: Grafschaft Sayn.

Regards
Dave

[ToneDrone]

Looks like Skoosh is right, it´s Luxembourg
.......
Regards
Dave

Awesome! Thank you so much!