FAMILY TARIFA (CIUDAD): COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Tarifa (ciudad)

Coat of arms and family crest of Tarifa (ciudad).

Genealogy of family Tarifa (ciudad), origin of Tarifa (ciudad), provenance of the family name Tarifa (ciudad).

History and meaning for Tarifa (ciudad).

Tarifa (ciudad) 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 Tarifa (ciudad) 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 Tarifa (ciudad):

1) The origin of the family name Tarifa (ciudad).

2) The meaning of the family name Tarifa (ciudad).

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Tarifa (ciudad).

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Tarifa (ciudad).

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

Bibliography that collects the history and the coat of arms for the family Tarifa (ciudad):

* Enciclopedia Hispanoamericana de Heraldica, Genealogia y Onomastica, by Arturo and Alberto Garcia Carraffa.

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The very complete history and heraldry of the family name Tarifa (ciudad) appears in the big "Enciclopedia Hispanoamericana de Heraldica, Genealogia y Onomastica" written by brothers Arturo and Alberto Garcia Carraffa, and continued by Endika de Mogrobejo. There are more than 100 volumes that occupy this Encyclopedia where we can find the family name Tarifa (ciudad). They are arranged alphabetically, although with additions at the end of many volumes. There are more than 17,000 names, including Tarifa (ciudad).

It may be helpful for those with the name Tarifa (ciudad) to know that, in the 15th century, hereditary surnames are already more or less consolidated, thanks in part to the obligation (at the initiative of Cisneros) to record births and deaths in parish books. In any case, it is important to know that, especially in rural areas and among the most humble people, the current norm of the hereditary paternal surname is not fixed definitively until the 19th century, topic that should be taken into account if it is applicable to some families of the family name Tarifa (ciudad) It is due to spelling errors and of different types that there are different spellings of the same family name, so those of the name Tarifa (ciudad) can have graphic variants.

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

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

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

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

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

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

* borduraNOusar: La Bordura simboliza Protección, Favor y Recompensa; asimismo la cota que vestían los caballeros y que al salir de la pelea, ostentándola manchada de sangre enemiga, eran premiados con el añadido de la bordura de escudo, como insignia de Valor.

* SEA: The Sea symbolizes a raging and wrathful spirit that does not lose, however, the limits of the obedience that it owes to its sovereign.

* SNAKE: The Snakes symbolize Prudence and Cunning.

* FIG: The Fig Tree or its leaves symbolize the State Benefactors.

* LION: The Lion symbolizes the Generously Warrior Spirit, adorned with the qualities of Vigilance, Dominion, Sovereignty, Majesty and Bravery.

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

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