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FAMILY CATANEA: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Coat of arms and family crest of Catanea.

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

History and meaning for Catanea.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Catanea:

1) The origin of the family name Catanea.

2) The meaning of the family name Catanea.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Catanea.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Catanea.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* Enciclopedia Hispanoamericana de Heraldica, Genealogia y Onomastica, by Arturo and Alberto Garcia Carraffa.

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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 Catanea:

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Coat of arms for Catanea and the history and origin for the family name Catanea in JPG or Vectorial files as Corel-Draw, AI, WMF, etc.

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

It may be helpful for those with the name Catanea 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 Catanea 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 Catanea 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) PURPLE: Justice, Wit, Truth, Greatness, Wisdom and Love; those who wear this color are obliged to defend the Prince defending ecclesiastical people.

3) GULES: Red color that symbolizes Strength, Victory, Daring and Highness.

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

* KEY: The Keys symbolize Fidelity and Secrecy.

* ROOK: The Rooks symbolize the Captain who defends his fortress.

* ROUNDLE: The Roundles symbolize the bucklers that the soldiers carried as a defensive weapon.

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

* WHEEL: The Wheels symbolize Speed in carrying out the most arduous undertakings. They are also a symbol of Fortune, Favor and Inconstancy.

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

* 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.

* ROSE: The Roses are an emblem of Beauty, of the Immaculate Honor, of the Nobility, of the recognized Merit and symbolize Constancy against depletions of fortune and Fierce Push to avenge the offenses that affect the trunk of their lineage.

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

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