He was born in 1500 and was one of the few Silesians to have an elevated position under the Polish King.

He became a Polish National Hero due to his success in driving the Tartars (Crimean Muslims) out of Poland, and what is now Ukraine.

The King told him that if he was able to beat his daughter in chess he would be set free, if he lost he would be killed.

The Prittwitz won and was told that he could take the life of the King's daughter.

Instead he cut off her arms so that she could no longer play chess (in other variants of this story, he simply hit her in the head with the chess board so hard that it broke, „Wczele” is similar to Polish „w czoło”, meaning „in the forehead”) Notable bearers of this coat of arms include: