FAMILY STEGER: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Steger

Coat of arms and family crest of Steger.

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

History and meaning for Steger.

Steger is a family name that we know that there is information about its heraldry, its history and its genealogy.

And here we make available to students of the family name Steger an important bibliographical information that collects its heraldic and genealogy, that are a beginning of face to the study of this family.

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Steger:

1) The origin of the family name Steger.

2) The meaning of the family name Steger.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Steger.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Steger.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

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

* Blasonario de la Consanguinidad iberica.

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The Blasonario of the Iberian Consanguinity, where apper the heraldry of Steger, 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 Steger corresponding to a line whose origin or location is indicated, but without specific attribution to a specific family. It includes family names as Steger of an extensive universal geography but that were part of the Iberian Community.

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

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

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

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

3) AZURE: Blue color that symbolizes Justice, Zeal, Truth, Loyalty, Charity and Beauty.

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

* WINDMILL: The Windmills and their Wheels are a symbol of Obedience, because they face the violence of the current and obey the movement that it prints.

* STICK: The Stick symbolizes military command.

* FIG: The Fig Tree or its leaves symbolize the State Benefactors.

* STAR: The Stars symbolize Constancy in the service to the Sovereign in the jobs of Minister or Counselor.

* FESS: The Fess represents the Noble Heart of the Knight, into which no betrayal or disloyalty can enter.

* CHECKY: The Checky symbolizes Military Art, for which reason it is usually awarded to soldiers who have exposed their lives in combat.

* LAMB: The Lamb symbolizes the Kings and Leaders who have to sacrifice themselves to the good and care of their subjects; also denotes in the whiteness of fleeces, Qualified Nobility.

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

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

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