FAMILY URZURIAGA: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Urzuriaga

Coat of arms and family crest of Urzuriaga.

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

History and meaning for Urzuriaga.

Urzuriaga 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 Urzuriaga 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 Urzuriaga:

1) The origin of the family name Urzuriaga.

2) The meaning of the family name Urzuriaga.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Urzuriaga.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Urzuriaga.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* Extension of Enciclopedia Hispanoamericana de Heraldica, Genealogia y Onomastica by Endika de Mogrobejo.

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

It may be helpful for those with the name Urzuriaga 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 Urzuriaga 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 Urzuriaga 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) SABLE: Black color that symbolizes Prudence, Sadness, Rigor, Honesty and Obedience.

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

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:

* KEY: The Keys symbolize Fidelity and Secrecy.

* PORCUPINE: The Porcupine is a symbol of Strength against danger, because it closes in on itself and defends itself with its own weapons (quills).

* MALLET: The Mallet indicates War for the damage that it can cause to armor.

* 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.

* LOZENGE: The Lozenges symbolize Constancy.

* CASTLE: The Castle, due to the superiority of its strength over other buildings, denotes Greatness and Power, used to defend friends and allies, resisting the enemy invincibly.

* BEZANT: The Bezants, due to its oriental significance, was adopted by most of the Knights who took part in the expedition to the Holy Land.

* The family name Urzuriaga 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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