May Family Coat of Arms .. Germany

This coat of arms is from the excellent on-line source at Amateur Heraldry compiled by the late Don Smith. The May coat of arms is referenced there from his collection of German wappen .. and is distinguished from the May family shield of the British May family; or the Mays of the Lowlands.
Though historically inter-related from the crusades or prior .. the May family of mittel-Europe or Germany into Italy is a separate family descent. Ths German family ancestry which is ancestal of the Connolly & McCormack family emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts from Baden Germany about 1835-43.
For the "Armourial" the webmaster has cropped the mantle, plumes, knights helmet,and added the name "MAY" to simply join the form of the other exhibited crests. Horizontal bars characterize the British (including Irish Mays) crest; a similar pattern of the lowlands. The mittel European which includes Baden-Wurttemberg area Mays - "Frankish" to Carpathia and into northern Italy includes the vertical gold and purple bars and the paired rampant griffins.