FAMILY ROCAFORT: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Rocafort

Coat of arms and family crest of Rocafort.

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

History and meaning for Rocafort.

Rocafort 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 Rocafort 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 Rocafort:

1) The origin of the family name Rocafort.

2) The meaning of the family name Rocafort.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Rocafort.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Rocafort.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

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

* Canary Islands (Spain).

* Catalonia (Spain).

* Aragon (Spain).

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

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

* Nobiliario Espanol, by Julio de Atienza.

* El Solar catalan, valenciano y balear, by Garcia Carraffa.

* Diccionario de Heraldica Aragonesa, by Bizen Do Rio Martinez.

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

For many years, many authors, among which Bizen Do Rio Martinez, tried to collect in protocols, salutes, signatures and other documents, many blazons of Aragon, among which are those of the family name Rocafort, that presents the great work of this author "Dictionary of Aragonese Heraldry", which in many cases, have also been proven in churches, hermitages and cemeteries. All have been carefully recorded and above all, with its proven provenance. Centuries of history have shaped these blazons, among which are those of the family name Rocafort and throughout the Aragonese geography we can admire mansions and facades that still conserve the armeros stones that emblazon the lineage of the ancient infanzons, in most cases today inhabited by descendants of those hidalgos, such as the name Rocafort. Our infanzons, as surely the Rocafort, conscious of their duty and displaying the nobility of their race, they often promoted their troops at their expense and, leaving their homes and estates, set out to reconquer, enlarging the Aragonese kingdom and conforming with his effort and sacrifice what would later be the Crown of Aragon. Here we also have the heraldry and history of the name Rocafort.

The history and heraldry of the family name Rocafort appears in the work "Solar catalan, valenciano y balear", by brothers Garcia Carraffa, so the persons with this family name are of Catalan origin or from other places and settled in Catalonia (Spain). The history and heraldry of the family name Rocafort appears in this work relative only to Catalonia, valencia or Balearic Islands.

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

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:

* YOKE: The Yoke symbolizes Unity.

* PANELA: The Panelas are figures similar to a heart and are a symbol of Vigilant Vassal.

* DRAGON: The Dragon symbolizes the most exquisite Care and Vigilance.

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

* MALLET: The Mallet indicates War for the damage that it can cause to armor.

* GYRON: The Gyron represents Favor.

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

* FESS: The Fess represents the Noble Heart of the Knight, into which no betrayal or disloyalty can enter.

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