 "Zlota Ksiega Szlachty Polskiej" ("Golden Book of Polish Nobility") states that the Sypniewski – Odrowaz arms are said to have come from the Podgórze region, recorded around 1190 (there are still few Sypniewski families owning land and living in this area today).Their further nobility confirmations through Bonifacius Sypniewski is dated in 1483 and confirmed in German Nobility Book.A Jan Sypniewski resettled in the Brzesko-Litewskie province (presently part of Lithuania, back then center of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), and branches are found in Poznań, Nowy Sącz, and Prussia.