Bronze coat of arms of the Sandoz family

Our history:
SANDOZ. - This family originated in Le Locle, where it is cited from the second half of the 14th century, and was a citizen of Valangin from 1508 and of Neuchâtel from 1659.
It spread to La Brévine, Dombresson, Basel and the canton of Vaud.
Jean-Jacques Sandoz, son of David, first mayor of La Chaux-des-Taillères (Brévine), was ennobled in 1657 by Henri II de Longueville.
His son Henri married Anne-Marie de Bonstetten, and the lordships of Travers, Noiraigue and Rosières entered his family, which died out among the males in 1852.
Jean-Henri de Sandoz (1698-1753), descendant of a younger son of Jean-Jacques above, married Sarah-Elisabeth Rollin, the last of his family, and took the name SANDOZ-ROLLIN with his descendants.
His son David received the title of Baron from the King of Prussia, but this was not ratified in Neuchâtel.
In 1873, Charles-Louis de Sandoz, the last member of a collateral branch of the same family, adopted his grand-nephew, Alphonse Franel (1809-1892), who took the Sandoz name and arms.
His son Charles died in 1904 without issue.
Other branches included Henri Sandoz (1730-1820), from Le Locle, a colonel in the French service, who was knighted by Louis XVIII and whose son died in 1859 without issue.

Claude-François Sandoz, lieutenant-general in the service of Holland, was knighted in 1776 by Emperor Joseph II and died without issue.
Isaac SANDOL, stem of the SANDOL-ROY family (see this name).
Arms: a gavel in pale, accompanied by initials and two tiger flowers issuant from a mount of three cups.
According to HTJG, azure, the hammer poured argent between two mullets or.
The same author also uses a faith to hold the hammer, which was to become the family emblem and has given rise to numerous variants.
In general, we find: “azure à la foi d'argent”.
The field is sometimes “de gueules à la foi posée sur une fess”.
which the R. B. give as “azure in field of gold and accompanied in chief by a crescent, in base by a flame of gules.
On the tombstone of notary David Sandoz, mayor of La Brévine (1656), “the faith is accompanied by a semis of fleurs-de-lis and two palms in base”.
On a stone by D.-H. Sandoz (1783), there are only “two stars in chief and a mount of three cups in point”.
Crest: a dextrochere holding a hammer.
Supporters: two lions.
Motto: SINE DOLO or “SANS DOL”.
A drawing by Huguenin (late 18th century) shows arms similar to those of the
Sandol, but with “azure field”.
Supporters: two women.

Motto: “This is the effect of patience and true love”.
Jean-Henry de Sandoz-Rollin (1698-1753), chevalier de la Générosité, bore “quarterly Argent and Or, a cross of Générosité Or, overall a bend chequy Gules and Or”.
Crest: a griffin issuant.
Supporters: two lions.
A Sandoz-Travers seal, probably that of a son of Jean-Jacques, a Sandoz ally, bears a quartered Sandoz-Travers and Sandoz.
The letter of nobility granted to General Sandoz in 1776 bears “d'azur à la foi d'argent”.
Crest: a vol argent.

SANDOL, SANDOL-ROY. - Branch of the Sandoz family, citizens of Valangin (1508) and Neuchâtel (1659). Abram Sandol (1722-1802), State Councillor, was ennobled with his father Isaac in 1754 and authorized to bear the name SANDOL-ROY, because he had married the only daughter of Simon de Roy.
Arms: “Gules, on a fess argent, between sixteen lozenges, eight in chief and eight in base. The lozenges in the base are sometimes replaced by flames.
On the tomb of Isaac Sandoz (Sandol) (1643-1716) in the temple at Le Locle, the lozenges in the chief are replaced by two diamond points.
Crest: a dextrochere holding an axe.
The arms granted at the time of ennoblement are a combination of the Roy and Sandol arms: “Quarterly, first and fourth, gules, three argent mullets opposite and azure, a saltire or, open in abyss; overall ermine in faith proper”.

Crest: three ostrich feathers argent, gules and azure.
Supporters: two lions gules.
Motto: “SINE DOLO”.