FAMILY CASTANT: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Castant

Coat of arms and family crest of Castant.

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

History and meaning for Castant.

Castant 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 Castant 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 Castant:

1) The origin of the family name Castant.

2) The meaning of the family name Castant.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Castant.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Castant.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

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

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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 Castant:

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The very complete history and heraldry of the family name Castant 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 Castant. They are arranged alphabetically, although with additions at the end of many volumes. There are more than 17,000 names, including Castant.

It may be helpful for those with the name Castant 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 Castant 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 Castant 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) PURPLE: Justice, Wit, Truth, Greatness, Wisdom and Love; those who wear this color are obliged to defend the Prince defending ecclesiastical people.

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

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

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

* STAG: The Stag symbolizes Effortless Courage, which draws and recovers energy even on the most adverse occasions.

* ANCHOR: The Anchor is a symbol of Hope, it also means security and constancy, even in the greatest setbacks of fortune.

* CHECKY: The Checky symbolizes Military Art, for which reason it is usually awarded to soldiers who have exposed their lives in combat.

* HERON: The Heron represents Prudence in preventing dangers, guarding against them.

* GYRON: The Gyron represents Favor.

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

* TOWER: The Tower represents the Generosity with which the Knight offers himself at the service of his Country and his King.

* LOZENGE: The Lozenges symbolize Constancy.

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

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