FAMILY BESANT: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Besant

Coat of arms and family crest of Besant.

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

History and meaning for Besant.

Besant is a family name that we know that there is information about its heraldry, its history and its genealogy.

And here we make available to students of the family name Besant an important bibliographical information that collects its heraldic and genealogy, that are a beginning of face to the study of this family.

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Besant:

1) The origin of the family name Besant.

2) The meaning of the family name Besant.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Besant.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Besant.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* Enciclopedia Hispanoamericana de Heraldica, Genealogia y Onomastica, by Arturo and Alberto Garcia Carraffa.

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We put at your disposal the heraldic, the coat of arms and crest for this family name in various formats: The images that appear here are examples and none of them belong to the coat of arms for the name Besant:

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The very complete history and heraldry of the family name Besant appears in the big "Enciclopedia Hispanoamericana de Heraldica, Genealogia y Onomastica" written by brothers Arturo and Alberto Garcia Carraffa, and continued by Endika de Mogrobejo. There are more than 100 volumes that occupy this Encyclopedia where we can find the family name Besant. They are arranged alphabetically, although with additions at the end of many volumes. There are more than 17,000 names, including Besant.

It may be helpful for those with the name Besant to know that, in the 15th century, hereditary surnames are already more or less consolidated, thanks in part to the obligation (at the initiative of Cisneros) to record births and deaths in parish books. In any case, it is important to know that, especially in rural areas and among the most humble people, the current norm of the hereditary paternal surname is not fixed definitively until the 19th century, topic that should be taken into account if it is applicable to some families of the family name Besant It is due to spelling errors and of different types that there are different spellings of the same family name, so those of the name Besant can have graphic variants.

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

2) OR (Gold): Nobility, Magnanimity, Wealth, Power, Light, Constancy and Wisdom.

3) AZURE: Blue color that symbolizes Justice, Zeal, Truth, Loyalty, Charity and Beauty.

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

* FIRE: The Fire is a symbol of Magnanimity, Burning and Promptness in performances or intellectual tasks.

* DOG: The Dog is a symbol of Faithful Vassal.

* LAUREL: The Laurel is a symbol of Good Fame, and due to the perpetual greenness of its leaves, of Imperecedera Victoria.

* WOLVES: The Wolves are a symbol of a Constant Heart that suffers the calamities of war and siege with generous spirit; but when the time comes to fight in the open field, he fiercely fights, without giving his enemy a barracks.

* WINDMILL: The Windmills and their Wheels are a symbol of Obedience, because they face the violence of the current and obey the movement that it prints.

* DRAGON: The Dragon symbolizes the most exquisite Care and Vigilance.

* PELICAN: The Pelican is a symbol of the Charitable and Pious Lord towards his vassals.

* LION: The Lion symbolizes the Generously Warrior Spirit, adorned with the qualities of Vigilance, Dominion, Sovereignty, Majesty and Bravery.

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

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