FAMILY ALCAFORADO: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Alcaforado

Coat of arms and family crest of Alcaforado.

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

History and meaning for Alcaforado.

We know that the family name Alcaforado has information about its heraldry, its history and genealogy.

We put at your disposal the bibliographical and heraldic sources, which are a beginning for the study of this family name.

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Alcaforado:

1) The origin of the family name Alcaforado.

2) The meaning of the family name Alcaforado.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Alcaforado.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Alcaforado.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

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

It may be helpful for those with the name Alcaforado 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 Alcaforado 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 Alcaforado 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) GULES: Red color that symbolizes Strength, Victory, Daring and Highness.

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.

* GOAT: The Goat symbolizes one who wins through politics rather than war.

* MERMAID: The Mermaid is a symbol of Eloquence and Seduction.

* SEA: The Sea symbolizes a raging and wrathful spirit that does not lose, however, the limits of the obedience that it owes to its sovereign.

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

* KNIGHT: The Knight symbolizes the Nobility.

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

* HAND: The Hand symbolizes Open Generosity; if it is closed, Strength, and linked with another, Friendship.

* The family name Alcaforado 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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