FAMILY VITORIA: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Vitoria

Coat of arms and family crest of Vitoria.

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

History and meaning for Vitoria.

Vitoria 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 Vitoria 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 Vitoria:

1) The origin of the family name Vitoria.

2) The meaning of the family name Vitoria.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Vitoria.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Vitoria.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

Persons with the name Vitoria proved their nobility in Real Chancilleria of Valladolid, as recorded in the archives of this institution.

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

* Canary Islands (Spain).

* Basque Country and / or Navarre (Spain).

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

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

* Heraldario Hispanoamericano y Europeo, by Ampelio Alonso de Cadenas y Lopez and the Spanish King of Arms don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent.

* Nobiliario Espanol, by Julio de Atienza.

* El Solar Vasco Navarro, by Arturo and Alberto Garcia Carraffa.

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

* Los Apellidos en Canarias, by Carlos Platero Fernandez.

* Blasonario de la Consanguinidad iberica.

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

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

The family name Vitoria is registered in the "Heraldario Espanol, Europeo y Americano" by Ampelio Alonso de Cadenas and the King of Arms Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent. In this work there are names, like Vitoria that have branches in America and / or Europe.

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

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

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

* IVY: The Ivy symbolizes Love Bond and also Triumph.

* GYRON: The Gyron represents Favor.

* SNAKE: The Snakes symbolize Prudence and Cunning.

* CABRIO: The Cabrio symbolizes the boots and spurs, and for this reason it was granted as an adornment of the shield to the Knight who was wounded from the combat in his legs.

* NETTLE: The Nettle symbolizes Affliction.

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

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

* SPARROWHAWK: The Sparrowhawk is a symbol of Cunning.

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