FAMILY PORTUGALL: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Portugall

Coat of arms and family crest of Portugall.

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

History and meaning for Portugall.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Portugall:

1) The origin of the family name Portugall.

2) The meaning of the family name Portugall.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Portugall.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Portugall.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* 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 Portugall:

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Coat of arms for Portugall and the history and origin for the family name Portugall 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 Portugall 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 Portugall, 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 Portugall, and origin for the family name Portugall, nobiliary titles of the family name Portugall and of the concession dates. The text where the family name Portugall appears is in the second edition, expanded and revised from 1884-1887.

The family crest and coat of arms of Portugall 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 Portugall alphabetically arranged and accurately described.In addition to a full description of the arms for Portugall, most entries identify the nationality of the arms bearer, titles of Portugall, 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 Portugall.

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

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

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

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

* WOLVES: The Wolves are a symbol of a Constant Heart that suffers the calamities of war and siege with generous spirit; but when the time comes to fight in the open field, he fiercely fights, without giving his enemy a barracks.

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

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

* RAVEN: The Raven is a symbol of the Bold and Courageous Spirit that risks itself in defense of its benefactors.

* PELICAN: The Pelican is a symbol of the Charitable and Pious Lord towards his vassals.

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

* EAGLE: The Eagle is an emblem of Generosity, Magnanimity and Bizarre spirit, that from the greatest heights does not stop monitoring the fulfillment of the least obligations of his position.

* PALM: The Palm Tree symbolizes Victory and Triumph.

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

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

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