FAMILY ATHELSTON: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Athelston

Coat of arms and family crest of Athelston.

Genealogy of family Athelston, origin of Athelston, provenance of the family name Athelston.

History and meaning for Athelston.

On this website we collect some interesting and useful information for the study of the history and the heraldry of the family name Athelston.

The most important thing is the bibliographic information about the name Athelston.

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Athelston:

1) The origin of the family name Athelston.

2) The meaning of the family name Athelston.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Athelston.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Athelston.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

It is known that the Athelston have or have been established, among other places, in:

* England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland.

Bibliography that collects the history and the coat of arms for the family Athelston:

* The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, by Sir Bernard Burke, King of Arms.

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The family Athelston appears in the "General The Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales" written by Sir Bernard Burke appeared for the first time in the year 1842. This book contains about 60,000 names as Athelston and are the most comprehensive Collection of Arms, including the Bearings Armorial of Noblemen and Gentlemen of the British Empire, and diverse coats that were seen in churches, familiar mansions, tombs, etc. This book is very valued by who investigate on its ancestors and want to conserve their memory, by means of the history of its well-known actions and the representation of its symbols. Therefore, the name Athelston is from England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, or radicated in some of these countries.

One of the most distinctive qualities of heraldry is the use of a limited palette of colours and patterns, usually referred to as tinctures. These are divided into three categories, known as metals, colours, and furs.

Next we are going to see the meanings of three tinctures:

1) GULES: Red color that symbolizes Strength, Victory, Daring and Highness.

2) ARGENT (Silver): Purity, Integrity, Obedience, Firmness, Surveillance, Eloquence and Expiration.

3) SABLE: Black color that symbolizes Prudence, Sadness, Rigor, Honesty and Obedience.

Next lets look at the characteristics of some figures that we can find in heraldry and crests:

* SNAKE: The Snakes symbolize Prudence and Cunning.

* LEOPARD: The Leopard represents the Courageous and Endeavoring Knight who has carried out some daring enterprise using cunning rather than force to complete it.

* LANCE: The Lance represents Strength with Prudence.

* CASTLE: The Castle, due to the superiority of its strength over other buildings, denotes Greatness and Power, used to defend friends and allies, resisting the enemy invincibly.

* TRIANGLE: The Triangle symbolizes Divine Equality and Perfection.

* SWAN: The Swan, by the tradition that he sings sweetly when he is about to die, means Ancient Nobility, without stain of any kind, who dies courageously executing glorious undertakings.

* GYRON: The Gyron represents Favor.

* BRIDGE: The Bridge symbolizes Alliance and Union.

* The family name Athelston appears in the list of last names of Heraldry & Crests so its complete history, crest and coat of arms or heraldic shields can be known on his website: http://www.heraldrycrests.com/

Heraldry for family name Athelston as well as its history is at your disposal here: Heraldry, history, origin, crest and coat of arms of the family name Athelston

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