FAMILY GUIMAREY: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Guimarey

Coat of arms and family crest of Guimarey.

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

History and meaning for Guimarey.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Guimarey:

1) The origin of the family name Guimarey.

2) The meaning of the family name Guimarey.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Guimarey.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Guimarey.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* Galicia (Spain).

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

* 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 Guimarey 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 Guimarey so the Guimarey or they are Galician or linked in some of their branches to Galicia.

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

3) AZURE: Blue color that symbolizes Justice, Zeal, Truth, Loyalty, Charity and Beauty.

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.

* WINDMILL: The Windmills and their Wheels are a symbol of Obedience, because they face the violence of the current and obey the movement that it prints.

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

* TREE: The Tree is a symbol of Ancient and Clarified Nobility.

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

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

* ERMINE: The Ermines symbolize Purity and Fidelity placed at the service of the Prince.

* GRIFFIN: The Griffin, half eagle and half lion, is an emblem of Ingenuity and Greatness.

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

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