FAMILY HOYO: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Hoyo

Coat of arms and family crest of Hoyo.

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

History and meaning for Hoyo.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Hoyo:

1) The origin of the family name Hoyo.

2) The meaning of the family name Hoyo.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Hoyo.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Hoyo.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

The family name Hoyo has a Spanish coat of arms certified by the Chronicler and King of Arms Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent.

Persons with the name Hoyo proved their nobility in Real Chancilleria of Valladolid, as recorded in the archives of this institution.

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

* Galicia (Spain).

* Canary Islands (Spain).

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

* Repertorio de Blasones de la Comunidad Hispanica, by the Spanish King of Arms Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent.

* Apendice al Repertorio de Blasones de la Comunidad Hispanica, by the Spanish King of Arms Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent.

* Linajes y Blasones de Galicia, by Father Crespo.

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

* Nobiliario Espanol, by Julio de Atienza.

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

* Los Apellidos en Canarias, by Carlos Platero Fernandez.

* Blasonario de la Consanguinidad iberica.

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The Blasonario of the Iberian Consanguinity, where apper the heraldry of Hoyo, consists of 7 volumes, starting the first in the year 1979 and the last in the year 1997, being its authors Ampelio Alonso de Cadenas, the King of Arms Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent (maximum authority of Spanish heraldry) and Liliana Ruiz Carrasco. It compiles a set of coats of arms and crests from different Spanish archives, others from armor stones, many from military passports and more from nobility, such as the name Hoyo corresponding to a line whose origin or location is indicated, but without specific attribution to a specific family. It includes family names as Hoyo of an extensive universal geography but that were part of the Iberian Community.

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

The work "Linajes y Blasones de Galicia", by Father Crespo, where the heraldry and the history of the family name Hoyo appears, is the most important treatise of the heraldry of Galicia (Spain), and was published three hundred years after the appearance of the posthumous "Nobiliario, Armas y Triunfos de Galicia", by Father Felipe de la Gandara. Its author Father Crespo Pozo, had for his investigations, vigils and costly walks that were rewarded with the kind collaboration of Nobles as the Dukes of Medinaceli facilitating the archive of the Grand Casa Marquesal de Camarasa, etc. All this resulted in a plurality of sources of consultation that make the scholarly work, encyclopedic and illustrative in Galician heraldry. This work collects, as we have already said, the history and heraldry of family Hoyo so the Hoyo or they are Galician or linked in some of their branches to Galicia.

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

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:

* OLIVE: The Olive Tree is a symbol of Peace, due to the perennial green of its leaves, it also means Immutable Courage against adverse fortune.

* PALM: The Palm Tree symbolizes Victory and Triumph.

* TRIANGLE: The Triangle symbolizes Divine Equality and Perfection.

* HAWK: The Hawk symbolizes Noble and Strong chest in companies of honor, which fails to achieve them faints of shame.

* LANCE: The Lance represents Strength with Prudence.

* GRAPE: The Grapes symbolizes Liberality, felicity, and peace; also, association with wine-making.

* BOAR: The Boar symbolizes Dauntless and Boldness.

* EMPIRE: The Head of the Empire, belonging to Italian heraldry, represents a political alliance with the Ghibelline party (derived from the Hohenstaufen, Lords of Waibling) who were loyal to the Emperor.

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