FAMILY GRUZ (LA): COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Gruz (la)

Coat of arms and family crest of Gruz (la).

Genealogy of family Gruz (la), origin of Gruz (la), provenance of the family name Gruz (la).

History and meaning for Gruz (la).

On this website we collect some interesting and useful information for the study of the history and the heraldry of the family name Gruz (la).

The most important thing is the bibliographic information about the name Gruz (la).

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Gruz (la):

1) The origin of the family name Gruz (la).

2) The meaning of the family name Gruz (la).

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Gruz (la).

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Gruz (la).

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

Bibliography that collects the history and the coat of arms for the family Gruz (la):

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

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

It may be helpful for those with the name Gruz (la) 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 Gruz (la) 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 Gruz (la) 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) AZURE: Blue color that symbolizes Justice, Zeal, Truth, Loyalty, Charity and Beauty.

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

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

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

* 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.

* LANCE: The Lance represents Strength with Prudence.

* NETTLE: The Nettle symbolizes Affliction.

* ERMINE: The Ermines symbolize Purity and Fidelity placed at the service of the Prince.

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

* TOWER: The Tower represents the Generosity with which the Knight offers himself at the service of his Country and his King.

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

* WALL: The Wall represents the Noble Heart of the Knight, in which no betrayal or disloyalty can enter.

* The family name Gruz (la) 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/

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