FAMILY EIXO: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Eixo

Coat of arms and family crest of Eixo.

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

History and meaning for Eixo.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Eixo:

1) The origin of the family name Eixo.

2) The meaning of the family name Eixo.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Eixo.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Eixo.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* Galicia (Spain).

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

* Linajes y Blasones de Galicia, by Father Crespo.

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The work "Linajes y Blasones de Galicia", by Father Crespo, where the heraldry and the history of the family name Eixo appears, is the most important treatise of the heraldry of Galicia (Spain), and was published three hundred years after the appearance of the posthumous "Nobiliario, Armas y Triunfos de Galicia", by Father Felipe de la Gandara. Its author Father Crespo Pozo, had for his investigations, vigils and costly walks that were rewarded with the kind collaboration of Nobles as the Dukes of Medinaceli facilitating the archive of the Grand Casa Marquesal de Camarasa, etc. All this resulted in a plurality of sources of consultation that make the scholarly work, encyclopedic and illustrative in Galician heraldry. This work collects, as we have already said, the history and heraldry of family Eixo so the Eixo or they are Galician or linked in some of their branches to Galicia.

It may be helpful for those with the name Eixo 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 Eixo 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 Eixo 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) SABLE: Black color that symbolizes Prudence, Sadness, Rigor, Honesty and Obedience.

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

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:

* SHELL: The Shell symbolizes the Knight who marches to the borders of his states to widen them by fighting; it is also a symbol of Pilgrim.

* LIZARD: The Lizard is a symbol of Fidelity and Hobby, for which it shows the man.

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

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

* BOAR: The Boar symbolizes Dauntless and Boldness.

* CYPRESS: The Cypress symbolizes Elevated and Incorruptible Thoughts.

* GRAPE: The Grapes symbolizes Liberality, felicity, and peace; also, association with wine-making.

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

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