FAMILY RIJO: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Rijo

Coat of arms and family crest of Rijo.

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

History and meaning for Rijo.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Rijo:

1) The origin of the family name Rijo.

2) The meaning of the family name Rijo.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Rijo.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Rijo.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

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

* Canary Islands (Spain).

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

* 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 Rijo, 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 Rijo corresponding to a line whose origin or location is indicated, but without specific attribution to a specific family. It includes family names as Rijo of an extensive universal geography but that were part of the Iberian Community.

According to the writer Carlos Platero Fernandez, in his book "The Surnames in Canary Islands ", the surname Rijo has a branch in the Canary Islands. In this work, Carlos Platero Fernandez collects the heraldry and history of many family names that come from other places in Spain and Europe, as surely is the case of the name Rijo and that they settled in the Canary Islands. Different spellings of surnames are collected, so it is possible that the name Rijo have some different spelling.

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

3) ARGENT (Silver): Purity, Integrity, Obedience, Firmness, Surveillance, Eloquence and Expiration.

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

* TIGER: The Tiger represents Fierceness and Valour; Resentment; Dangerous if aroused.

* NETTLE: The Nettle symbolizes Affliction.

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

* HOLM: The Holm Oak is a symbol of Strong and Constant Spirit in heroic actions and courageous undertakings.

* MERMAID: The Mermaid is a symbol of Eloquence and Seduction.

* 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.

* FUSIL: The Fusil is a symbol of Righteousness, Prudence and Equity and of the conveniences achieved through these virtues; it serves as a hieroglyph for those who gathered many goods using lawful and upright means.

* 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.

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