FAMILY LANDRE: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Landre

Coat of arms and family crest of Landre.

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

History and meaning for Landre.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Landre:

1) The origin of the family name Landre.

2) The meaning of the family name Landre.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Landre.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Landre.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* Armorial General by Johan Baptiste Rietstap. Contains blazons, descriptions and drawings of coats of arms, crests, origins of family names and nobility

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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 Landre:

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

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The coats of arms and family crests with meaning for the family name Landre are collected in the Armorial General by Johan Baptiste Rietstap, this work is the greatest work of heraldry ever written and drawn, with more than 100,000 family names from around the world (English, Scotish, Welsh, Spanish, French, Italians, Poles, Portuguese, Dutch, etc.), among which is the name Landre, arranged alphabetically, and DRAWN, including a heraldic handbook with drawings, a complete glossary of terms, a supplement and an appendix. Complete description the coat of arms Landre, and origin for the family name Landre, nobiliary titles of the family name Landre and of the concession dates. The text where the family name Landre appears is in the second edition, expanded and revised from 1884-1887.

The family crest and coat of arms of Landre appears in Rietstap Armorial General that is a multi-volume work on the coats-of-arms of the world; it is both monumental and without equal, and is the most exhaustive undertaking of its kind. The Armorial General is the most authoritative work on the coats-of-arms in the world. The descriptions of the arms cover those of more than 100,000 families, included Landre alphabetically arranged and accurately described.In addition to a full description of the arms for Landre, most entries identify the nationality of the arms bearer, titles of Landre, and the date his title was conferred. The basic text was established with the publication of the second edition, corrected and enlarged, of 1884-1887. This most important reference work contains the shields of thousands of Coats of Arms covering the whole world, arranged alphabetically under surnames, as Landre.

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

2) GULES: Red color that symbolizes Strength, Victory, Daring and Highness.

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

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

* 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.

* MULBERRY: The Mulberry symbolizes Prudence and Wisdom.

* LANCE: The Lance represents Strength with Prudence.

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

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

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Go to the main page of Heraldry & Crests | Go to the letter L index Go to the previous index of names | Go to name Landras | Go to name Landreani | Heraldry in Spanish Gabinete Heraldico

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