FAMILY PICANO: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Picano

Coat of arms and family crest of Picano.

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

History and meaning for Picano.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Picano:

1) The origin of the family name Picano.

2) The meaning of the family name Picano.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Picano.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Picano.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

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

It may be helpful for those with the name Picano 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 Picano 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 Picano 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) AZURE: Blue color that symbolizes Justice, Zeal, Truth, Loyalty, Charity and Beauty.

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

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

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

* KEY: The Keys symbolize Fidelity and Secrecy.

* LEOPARD: The Leopard represents the Courageous and Endeavoring Knight who has carried out some daring enterprise using cunning rather than force to complete it.

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

* SCEPTER: The Scepter represents Dignity.

* MARTLET: The Martlets mean the number of defeated enemies and are the distinctive mark of the fourth son.

* GYRON: The Gyron represents Favor.

* SPARROWHAWK: The Sparrowhawk is a symbol of Cunning.

* FUSIL: The Fusil is a symbol of Righteousness, Prudence and Equity and of the conveniences achieved through these virtues; it serves as a hieroglyph for those who gathered many goods using lawful and upright means.

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

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