FAMILY HANDFIELD: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Handfield

Coat of arms and family crest of Handfield.

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

History and meaning for Handfield.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Handfield:

1) The origin of the family name Handfield.

2) The meaning of the family name Handfield.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Handfield.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Handfield.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

It is known that the Handfield 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 Handfield:

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

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 Handfield:

Name Handfield

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

heraldry coats of arms on JPG and vectorial formats

Coat of arms for Handfield and the history and origin for the family name Handfield 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 Handfield

The family Handfield 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 Handfield 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 Handfield 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) OR (Gold): Nobility, Magnanimity, Wealth, Power, Light, Constancy and Wisdom.

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:

* WHEEL: The Wheels symbolize Speed in carrying out the most arduous undertakings. They are also a symbol of Fortune, Favor and Inconstancy.

* STAG: The Stag symbolizes Effortless Courage, which draws and recovers energy even on the most adverse occasions.

* DRAGANTE: Los Dragantes simbolizan el Cuidado y Vigilancia más exquisitos.

* PIGEON: The Pigeon is a symbol of Health; in the coat of arms it denotes Fidelity and Love. It is the emblem of the Third Person of the Holy Trinity and, as such, adorns the currency of the French Order of the Holy Spirit.

* FESS: The Fess represents the Noble Heart of the Knight, into which no betrayal or disloyalty can enter.

* ARROW: The Fess represents Readiness (for battle); if depicted with a cross, represents an affliction.

* 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.

* MARTLET: The Martlets mean the number of defeated enemies and are the distinctive mark of the fourth son.

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

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

Handfield

Images of some books referred, with information of the family name Handfield:

Handfield

Go to the main page of Heraldry & Crests | Go to the letter H index Go to the previous index of names | Go to name Handesacres | Go to name Handford | 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