 Lake Margonin).In German the name is translated as 'Seeort' (place on the lake).The Sypniewskis belong to Pomeranian nobility, Polish "Szlachta" (nobility), Prussian nobility, and later to German and Austrian nobilities (after partition of Poland), and, although mentioned already c. 1390 and earlier (as "Siebnitz" and/or "Zipniv" Pomeranian nobility), obtained a formal Polish nobility patent in writing from the king Casimir IV Jagiellon, who granted them the right to keep and use the Odrowąż coat of arms in 1480.