FAMILY GOES: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Goes

Coat of arms and family crest of Goes.

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

History and meaning for Goes.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Goes:

1) The origin of the family name Goes.

2) The meaning of the family name Goes.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Goes.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Goes.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* Armorial General by Johan Baptiste Rietstap. Contains blazons, descriptions and drawings of coats of arms, crests, origins of family names and nobility

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

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The coats of arms and family crests with meaning for the family name Goes are collected in the Armorial General by Johan Baptiste Rietstap, this work is the greatest work of heraldry ever written and drawn, with more than 100,000 family names from around the world (English, Scotish, Welsh, Spanish, French, Italians, Poles, Portuguese, Dutch, etc.), among which is the name Goes, arranged alphabetically, and DRAWN, including a heraldic handbook with drawings, a complete glossary of terms, a supplement and an appendix. Complete description the coat of arms Goes, and origin for the family name Goes, nobiliary titles of the family name Goes and of the concession dates. The text where the family name Goes appears is in the second edition, expanded and revised from 1884-1887.

The family crest and coat of arms of Goes appears in Rietstap Armorial General that is a multi-volume work on the coats-of-arms of the world; it is both monumental and without equal, and is the most exhaustive undertaking of its kind. The Armorial General is the most authoritative work on the coats-of-arms in the world. The descriptions of the arms cover those of more than 100,000 families, included Goes alphabetically arranged and accurately described.In addition to a full description of the arms for Goes, most entries identify the nationality of the arms bearer, titles of Goes, and the date his title was conferred. The basic text was established with the publication of the second edition, corrected and enlarged, of 1884-1887. This most important reference work contains the shields of thousands of Coats of Arms covering the whole world, arranged alphabetically under surnames, as Goes.

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

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

3) PURPLE: Justice, Wit, Truth, Greatness, Wisdom and Love; those who wear this color are obliged to defend the Prince defending ecclesiastical people.

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

* KNIGHT: The Knight symbolizes the Nobility.

* OLIVE: The Olive Tree is a symbol of Peace, due to the perennial green of its leaves, it also means Immutable Courage against adverse fortune.

* 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.

* 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.

* SALTIRE: The Saltire symbolizes the Banner or script of the leader undefeated in combat.

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* LOZENGE: The Lozenges symbolize Constancy.

* 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.

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

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Images of some books referred, with information of the family name Goes:

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