FAMILY GARCIA DE QUINTANA: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Garcia de quintana

Coat of arms and family crest of Garcia de quintana.

Genealogy of family Garcia de quintana, origin of Garcia de quintana, provenance of the family name Garcia de quintana.

History and meaning for Garcia de quintana.

Garcia de quintana 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 Garcia de quintana an important bibliographical information that collects its heraldic and genealogy, that are a beginning of face to the study of this family.

The surname Garcia de quintana is of COMPOSITE origin of the surname itself, which appears first, and of what appears after the DE (what does it mean OF), giving a sense of BELONGING. Most of these surnames are of Spanish origin, but there are also French, Belgian, etc.

The surname Garcia de quintana is a Spanish SURNAME, compound derived from the GARCIA surname, from which we derive the surname García (in Spanish language).

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Garcia de quintana:

1) The origin of the family name Garcia de quintana.

2) The meaning of the family name Garcia de quintana.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Garcia de quintana.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Garcia de quintana.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

Bibliography that collects the history and the coat of arms for the family Garcia de quintana:

* 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 Garcia de quintana 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 Garcia de quintana. They are arranged alphabetically, although with additions at the end of many volumes. There are more than 17,000 names, including Garcia de quintana.

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

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

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:

* RIVER: The River symbolizes, due to its condition of increasing its flow as it advances, the Knight who leaves his house with a desire to advance and returns to it enriched with Erudition and Fortune.

* CABRIO: The Cabrio symbolizes the boots and spurs, and for this reason it was granted as an adornment of the shield to the Knight who was wounded from the combat in his legs.

* SWAN: The Swan, by the tradition that he sings sweetly when he is about to die, means Ancient Nobility, without stain of any kind, who dies courageously executing glorious undertakings.

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

* CHEVRON: The Chevron symbolizes the boots and spurs, and for this reason it was granted as an adornment of the shield to the Knight who was wounded from the combat in his legs.

* MERMAID: The Mermaid is a symbol of Eloquence and Seduction.

* CHAIN: The Chain generally means Captivity suffered by the defense of the King or the Homeland.

* STAR: The Stars symbolize Constancy in the service to the Sovereign in the jobs of Minister or Counselor.

* The family name Garcia de quintana 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/

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