Parchment 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, who was ennobled 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 flowers slipped issuant from a mount of three cups.
According to HTJG, azure, the hammer poured argent and accompanied by two stars or.
The same author also has the hammer held by a faith, 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: ‘Gules, a fess bearing a fess’.
which the R. B. give as ‘azure in field or and accompanied in chief by a crescent, in base by a flame gules.
On the grave 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 belonging to D.-H. Sandoz (1783), there are only ‘two stars in chief and a mount of three cups in base’.
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 a ‘field of azure’.
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 quarterly Sandoz-Travers and Sandoz.
The letter of nobility granted to General Sandoz in 1776 bears ‘azure 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 authorised to bear the name SANDOL-ROY, because he had married the only daughter of Simon de Roy.
Coat of arms: ‘Gules, a foi argent, between sixteen lozenges versé, 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 the ennoblement are a combination of the arms of Roy and Sandol: ‘Quarterly first and fourth Gules three mullets in front Argent and Azure a saltire Or open in the abyss; overall ermine in the faith proper’.

Crest: three ostrich feathers Argent, Gules and Azure.
Supporters: two lions gules.
Motto: ‘SINE DOLO’.