FAMILY PIRA: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Pira

Coat of arms and family crest of Pira.

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

History and meaning for Pira.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Pira:

1) The origin of the family name Pira.

2) The meaning of the family name Pira.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Pira.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Pira.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* Canary Islands (Spain).

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

* Los Apellidos en Canarias, by Carlos Platero Fernandez.

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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 Pira:

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According to the writer Carlos Platero Fernandez, in his book "The Surnames in Canary Islands ", the surname Pira has a branch in the Canary Islands. In this work, Carlos Platero Fernandez collects the heraldry and history of many family names that come from other places in Spain and Europe, as surely is the case of the name Pira and that they settled in the Canary Islands. Different spellings of surnames are collected, so it is possible that the name Pira have some different spelling.

It may be helpful for those with the name Pira 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 Pira 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 Pira 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) ARGENT (Silver): Purity, Integrity, Obedience, Firmness, Surveillance, Eloquence and Expiration.

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

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:

* 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.

* CRICKET: The Cricket is a symbol of the Irresolute and Inconstant Lover.

* HAWK: The Hawk symbolizes Noble and Strong chest in companies of honor, which fails to achieve them faints of shame.

* GRAPE: The Grapes symbolizes Liberality, felicity, and peace; also, association with wine-making.

* PELICAN: The Pelican is a symbol of the Charitable and Pious Lord towards his vassals.

* CRESCENT: The Crescent, of oriental origin, symbolizes Victory against the darkness of slander, and Emulations against inconstancy and fickleness.

* WOLVES: The Wolves are 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.

* 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.

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

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