FAMILY PRAT: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Prat

Coat of arms and family crest of Prat.

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

History and meaning for Prat.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Prat:

1) The origin of the family name Prat.

2) The meaning of the family name Prat.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Prat.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Prat.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

The family name Prat has a Spanish coat of arms certified by the Chronicler and King of Arms Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent.

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

* Canary Islands (Spain).

* Catalonia (Spain).

* Aragon (Spain).

* Italy.

* The French region of Limoges.

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

* Repertorio de Blasones de la Comunidad Hispanica, by the Spanish King of Arms Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent.

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

* Heraldica de los apellidos canarios, by Lino Chaparro D`Acosta.

* Nobiliario Espanol, by Julio de Atienza.

* El Solar catalan, valenciano y balear, by Garcia Carraffa.

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

* Diccionario de Heraldica Aragonesa, by Bizen Do Rio Martinez.

* Los Apellidos en Canarias, by Carlos Platero Fernandez.

* Nobiliaire du Diocèse et de la Generalite de Limoges, by L"Abbe Joseph Nadaud.

* Blasonario de la Consanguinidad iberica.

* Enciclopedia Storico-Nobiliare Italiana by Vittorio Spreti.

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The Blasonario of the Iberian Consanguinity, where apper the heraldry of Prat, consists of 7 volumes, starting the first in the year 1979 and the last in the year 1997, being its authors Ampelio Alonso de Cadenas, the King of Arms Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent (maximum authority of Spanish heraldry) and Liliana Ruiz Carrasco. It compiles a set of coats of arms and crests from different Spanish archives, others from armor stones, many from military passports and more from nobility, such as the name Prat corresponding to a line whose origin or location is indicated, but without specific attribution to a specific family. It includes family names as Prat of an extensive universal geography but that were part of the Iberian Community.

For many years, many authors, among which Bizen Do Rio Martinez, tried to collect in protocols, salutes, signatures and other documents, many blazons of Aragon, among which are those of the family name Prat, that presents the great work of this author "Dictionary of Aragonese Heraldry", which in many cases, have also been proven in churches, hermitages and cemeteries. All have been carefully recorded and above all, with its proven provenance. Centuries of history have shaped these blazons, among which are those of the family name Prat and throughout the Aragonese geography we can admire mansions and facades that still conserve the armeros stones that emblazon the lineage of the ancient infanzons, in most cases today inhabited by descendants of those hidalgos, such as the name Prat. Our infanzons, as surely the Prat, conscious of their duty and displaying the nobility of their race, they often promoted their troops at their expense and, leaving their homes and estates, set out to reconquer, enlarging the Aragonese kingdom and conforming with his effort and sacrifice what would later be the Crown of Aragon. Here we also have the heraldry and history of the name Prat.

The coats of arms and family crests with meaning for the family name Prat 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 Prat, 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 Prat, and origin for the family name Prat, nobiliary titles of the family name Prat and of the concession dates. The text where the family name Prat appears is in the second edition, expanded and revised from 1884-1887.

The family crest and coat of arms of Prat 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 Prat alphabetically arranged and accurately described.In addition to a full description of the arms for Prat, most entries identify the nationality of the arms bearer, titles of Prat, 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 Prat.

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

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

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

3) ARGENT (Silver): Purity, Integrity, Obedience, Firmness, Surveillance, Eloquence and Expiration.

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

* STICK: The Stick symbolizes military command.

* WOLF: The Wolf is a symbol of a Constant Heart that suffers the calamities of war and siege with generous spirit; but when the time comes to fight in the open field, he fiercely fights, without giving his enemy a barracks.

* DOG: The Dog is a symbol of Faithful Vassal.

* LION: The Lion symbolizes the Generously Warrior Spirit, adorned with the qualities of Vigilance, Dominion, Sovereignty, Majesty and Bravery.

* 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.

* SEA: The Sea symbolizes a raging and wrathful spirit that does not lose, however, the limits of the obedience that it owes to its sovereign.

* 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.

* EMPIRE: The Head of the Empire, belonging to Italian heraldry, represents a political alliance with the Ghibelline party (derived from the Hohenstaufen, Lords of Waibling) who were loyal to the Emperor.

* The family name Prat 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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