FAMILY OCANANZA: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Ocananza

Coat of arms and family crest of Ocananza.

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

History and meaning for Ocananza.

Ocananza 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 Ocananza 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 Ocananza:

1) The origin of the family name Ocananza.

2) The meaning of the family name Ocananza.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Ocananza.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Ocananza.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

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

* Blasonario de la Consanguinidad iberica.

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The Blasonario of the Iberian Consanguinity, where apper the heraldry of Ocananza, 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 Ocananza corresponding to a line whose origin or location is indicated, but without specific attribution to a specific family. It includes family names as Ocananza of an extensive universal geography but that were part of the Iberian Community.

The family name Ocananza appears collected by the Chronicler and King of Arms, Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent, in his book "Apendice al Repertorio de Blasones de la Comunidad Hispanica", work that includes more than 5,000 heraldic coats of arms, among which is the family name Ocananza with its heraldry and origin, whose data have been extracted from personal files, military passports, unpublished nobility, ex libris, data from private archives and other documents. In summary, people with the surname Ocananza they have carried out some test of nobility and there are official coat of arms and crests of Ocananza certified by King of Arms.

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

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

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

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

* HAND: The Hand symbolizes Open Generosity; if it is closed, Strength, and linked with another, Friendship.

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

* PARROT: The Parrot is a symbol of a Noble Knight, who looks with pleasure at the enamels on his shield, with the intention of not only preserving them, but adding new stamps with his own deeds and is also a symbol of Eloquence and Docility.

* COCK: The Cock is a symbol of Vigilance and Tenacity in the fight.

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

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

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

* ROUNDLE: The Roundles symbolize the bucklers that the soldiers carried as a defensive weapon.

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