FAMILY GORTARAN: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Gortaran

Coat of arms and family crest of Gortaran.

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

History and meaning for Gortaran.

Gortaran 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 Gortaran 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 Gortaran:

1) The origin of the family name Gortaran.

2) The meaning of the family name Gortaran.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Gortaran.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Gortaran.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* Basque Country and / or Navarre (Spain).

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

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

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That the last name Gortaran is in "El Solar Vasco Navarro" by the Garcia Carraffa brothers means that the Gortaran 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 Gortaran, to know the fights of nobility of the Gortaran, income to military orders, to know about the nobility titles that may have the persons with the last name Gortaran, honorary offices or public offices of the Gortaran.

It may be helpful for those with the name Gortaran 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 Gortaran 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 Gortaran 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) GULES: Red color that symbolizes Strength, Victory, Daring and Highness.

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

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:

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

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

* WATER: The Water is a symbol of Enlightened Wisdom, of Virtuous Mood, and can also symbolize domain extension.

* BOAR: The Boar symbolizes Dauntless and Boldness.

* 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.

* PALM: The Palm Tree symbolizes Victory and Triumph.

* BULL: The Bull symbolizes Generous Chest, in whom the memories of his lineage, represented in the red of his blood, inflame the desire for great enterprises.

* CABRIO: The Cabrio symbolizes the boots and spurs, and for this reason it was granted as an adornment of the shield to the Knight who was wounded from the combat in his legs.

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