FAMILY KETTELBY: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Kettelby

Coat of arms and family crest of Kettelby.

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

History and meaning for Kettelby.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Kettelby:

1) The origin of the family name Kettelby.

2) The meaning of the family name Kettelby.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Kettelby.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Kettelby.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland.

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

* The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, by Sir Bernard Burke, King of Arms.

Are you proud to belong to your family? Do you want to know and have something important related to your family?. Click here

This name is the SYMBOL OF A FAMILY. If you have been invited to a wedding, event, meeting or anniversary, make a GREAT GIFT FOR WEDDINGS, ANNIVERSARIES and events..

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 Kettelby:

Name Kettelby

Parchment with the coat of arms, origin and history for the family name Kettelby. Very cheap.

heraldry coats of arms on JPG and vectorial formats

Coat of arms for Kettelby and the history and origin for the family name Kettelby in JPG or Vectorial files as Corel-Draw, AI, WMF, etc.

Click here to see in more detail the products displayed here and other heraldry for the family name Kettelby

The family Kettelby appears in the "General The Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales" written by Sir Bernard Burke appeared for the first time in the year 1842. This book contains about 60,000 names as Kettelby and are the most comprehensive Collection of Arms, including the Bearings Armorial of Noblemen and Gentlemen of the British Empire, and diverse coats that were seen in churches, familiar mansions, tombs, etc. This book is very valued by who investigate on its ancestors and want to conserve their memory, by means of the history of its well-known actions and the representation of its symbols. Therefore, the name Kettelby is from England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, or radicated in some of these countries.

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

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

* ROUNDLE: The Roundles symbolize the bucklers that the soldiers carried as a defensive weapon.

* ARROW: The Fess represents Readiness (for battle); if depicted with a cross, represents an affliction.

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

* 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.

* borduraNOusar: La Bordura simboliza Protección, Favor y Recompensa; asimismo la cota que vestían los caballeros y que al salir de la pelea, ostentándola manchada de sangre enemiga, eran premiados con el añadido de la bordura de escudo, como insignia de Valor.

* CROSS: The Cross symbolizes the sword of the Knights, to whom this piece was granted when they returned from combat with their sword dyed in enemy blood. The Cross was also taken as a teaching by most of the Crusaders.

* MULBERRY: The Mulberry symbolizes Prudence and Wisdom.

* TURTLE: The Turtle is one of the most noble figures, being a symbol of the Knight who retires late from combat, facing his enemy until the last moment, trusting in his own strength.

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

Related Words: Kettelby family crest | Origin of the name Kettelby | Genealogy of the family Kettelby | Heraldry of the name Kettelby | Coat of arms of Kettelby | Genealogy of the Kettelby | Origin of the Kettelby | Meaning of the name Kettelby.

Kettelby

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

Kettelby

Go to the main page of Heraldry & Crests | Go to the letter K index Go to the previous index of names | Go to name Kette | Go to name Ketteler | Heraldry in Spanish Gabinete Heraldico

All the information about the surnames that are collected in this web site are based on verified bibliography.

Origin of family name, history and coat of arms/crests