What's in a name?

What's in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet.

~William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Immlin Crest (J. Siebmacher, Wappenbuch, 1701).

The Imle name and its variations has been traced back to the middle 1500s, almost fifty years before Will S., of England, wrote his famous lines. Among early Imles, the name often appears as “Ihmle” and “Imlin” and may be related to the archaic German word “Imme” (“bee”), from Middle High German “Imbe” (“bee; swarm of bees”), from Old High German “Imbi” (“swarm of bees”). The Immlin family of Heilbronn (about twenty miles northeast of Horrheim and Gündelbach) has a crest that shows three insects, which appear to be bees in the Immlin window at the church of St. Kilian in Heilbronn but are said in Rietstap’s 19th-century book Amorial General to be horse flies (Fr “Taons”). Of course Rietstap was Dutch and was writing in French so there may be a problem in translation at some point.

Window in Church at Heilbronn with Immlin
crest (2010). (Photo by Elizabeth (“Liz”) Smith.)

A drawing of what is said to be the Imle family crest has been passed down by family members in Germany; however, no crest for a family with the spelling "Imle" is found in German heraldry.

Imle “family crest” (Jörg Imle).

In Germany “Imle” is pronounced “ĭmlā.” When the Clark County Imles immigrated to America, the spelling did not change, but the pronunciation did, becoming (“īmel”). Most other Imle immigrants changed the spelling, keeping the pronunciation similar, this probably being the source of the American names “Emly” and Emily. (The similar names “Imlay” and “Emlay” are Scottish.)

Readers: I need your help. Can anyone tell me the origin of the drawing of the Imle "family crest" or who Jörge Imle is?