FAMILY EZTANGA: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Eztanga

Coat of arms and family crest of Eztanga.

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

History and meaning for Eztanga.

Eztanga 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 Eztanga 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 Eztanga:

1) The origin of the family name Eztanga.

2) The meaning of the family name Eztanga.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Eztanga.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Eztanga.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* Canary Islands (Spain).

* Basque Country and / or Navarre (Spain).

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

* Heraldica de los apellidos canarios, by Lino Chaparro D`Acosta.

* El Solar Vasco Navarro, by Arturo and Alberto Garcia Carraffa.

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

Are you proud to belong to your family? Do you want to know and have something important related to your family?. Click here

This name is the SYMBOL OF A FAMILY. If you have been invited to a wedding, event, meeting or anniversary, make a GREAT GIFT FOR WEDDINGS, ANNIVERSARIES and events..

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 Eztanga:

Name Eztanga

Parchment with the coat of arms, origin and history for the family name Eztanga. Very cheap.

heraldry coats of arms on JPG and vectorial formats

Coat of arms for Eztanga and the history and origin for the family name Eztanga in JPG or Vectorial files as Corel-Draw, AI, WMF, etc.

Click here to see in more detail the products displayed here and other heraldry for the family name Eztanga

The very complete history and heraldry of the family name Eztanga 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 Eztanga. They are arranged alphabetically, although with additions at the end of many volumes. There are more than 17,000 names, including Eztanga.

The family name Eztanga appears in the work "Heraldry of Canarian last names" by Lino Chaparro D`Acosta, so that Eztanga is a surname that has a branch in the Canary Islands. The conquest of the archipelago had begun, formally, in 1402, with the incursions of Jean de Bethencourt and Gadifier de la Salle, in the name of Enrique III, in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and El Hierro, island that annexed with some ease to Castile. Fernan Peraza did the same with La Gomera. Tenerife is the last island in conquerer, already for the Catholic Monarchs. So, the family names as Eztanga have history and heraldry in the Canary Islands. Throughout time, the Canary Islands has been linked to America as a forced passage of the ships to the new continent. The Canary Islands actively participated, as settlers, in the birth of nations and cities. It was island families who founded the cities of Montevideo and San Antonio (Texas) - in the list of defenders of the Alamo abound the Canarian surnames; So, many last names, as it is possible that it is the name Eztanga went to America. It is interesting to look up the last name Eztanga in America.

That the last name Eztanga is in "El Solar Vasco Navarro" by the Garcia Carraffa brothers means that the Eztanga are of Basque, Navarre, or other origin but settled in the Basque Country and / or Navarre. The Basque family names were formed taking into account the names of the places, and the personal ones varied in each generation and even between brothers. It was customary to take the name of the lot to demonstrate ownership over it. The name of the plants, rivers, mountains, forests, rocks, fields served as inspiration. You can distinguish terms, as the meaning of the colors or pieces that make up the coats of arms, to have the nobiliary historical information of the family name Eztanga, to know the fights of nobility of the Eztanga, income to military orders, to know about the nobility titles that may have the persons with the last name Eztanga, honorary offices or public offices of the Eztanga.

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) PURPLE: Justice, Wit, Truth, Greatness, Wisdom and Love; those who wear this color are obliged to defend the Prince defending ecclesiastical people.

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:

* BRIDGE: The Bridge symbolizes Alliance and Union.

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

* ANCHOR: The Anchor is a symbol of Hope, it also means security and constancy, even in the greatest setbacks of fortune.

* RIVER: The River symbolizes, due to its condition of increasing its flow as it advances, the Knight who leaves his house with a desire to advance and returns to it enriched with Erudition and Fortune.

* BOAR: The Boar symbolizes Dauntless and Boldness.

* ROUNDLE: The Roundles symbolize the bucklers that the soldiers carried as a defensive weapon.

* FIG: The Fig Tree or its leaves symbolize the State Benefactors.

* COMET: The Comet symbolizes a Brave Courage to prevent in time, without fear, future grievances.

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

Related Words: Eztanga family crest | Origin of the name Eztanga | Genealogy of the family Eztanga | Heraldry of the name Eztanga | Coat of arms of Eztanga | Genealogy of the Eztanga | Origin of the Eztanga | Meaning of the name Eztanga.

Eztanga

Go to the main page of Heraldry & Crests | Go to the letter E index Go to the previous index of names | Go to name Ezquiz | Go to name Eztanga | Heraldry in Spanish Gabinete Heraldico

All the information about the surnames that are collected in this web site are based on verified bibliography.

Origin of family name, history and coat of arms/crests