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FAMILY DUNDEE (COMTE ET VICOMTE): COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Coat of arms and family crest of Dundee (comte et vicomte).

Genealogy of family Dundee (comte et vicomte), origin of Dundee (comte et vicomte), provenance of the family name Dundee (comte et vicomte).

History and meaning for Dundee (comte et vicomte).

On this website we collect some interesting and useful information for the study of the history and the heraldry of the family name Dundee (comte et vicomte).

The most important thing is the bibliographic information about the name Dundee (comte et vicomte).

This family name Dundee (comte et vicomte) held the title of COUNT or VISCOUNT that his name indicates. It is therefore a noble family.

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Dundee (comte et vicomte):

1) The origin of the family name Dundee (comte et vicomte).

2) The meaning of the family name Dundee (comte et vicomte).

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Dundee (comte et vicomte).

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Dundee (comte et vicomte).

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

Bibliography that collects the history and the coat of arms for the family Dundee (comte et vicomte):

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

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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 Dundee (comte et vicomte):

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

The family crest and coat of arms of Dundee (comte et vicomte) 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 Dundee (comte et vicomte) alphabetically arranged and accurately described.In addition to a full description of the arms for Dundee (comte et vicomte), most entries identify the nationality of the arms bearer, titles of Dundee (comte et vicomte), 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 Dundee (comte et vicomte).

It may be helpful for those with the name Dundee (comte et vicomte) 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 Dundee (comte et vicomte) 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 Dundee (comte et vicomte) 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:

* 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.

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

* 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.

* MULBERRY: The Mulberry symbolizes Prudence and Wisdom.

* 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.

* APPLE: The Apple Tree symbolizes the Watchful Heart.

* PANELA: The Panelas are figures similar to a heart and are a symbol of Vigilant Vassal.

* TIGER: The Tiger represents Fierceness and Valour; Resentment; Dangerous if aroused.

* The family name Dundee (comte et vicomte) 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 Dundee (comte et vicomte) as well as its history is at your disposal here: Heraldry, history, origin, crest and coat of arms of the family name Dundee (comte et vicomte)

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Images of some books referred, with information of the family name Dundee (comte et vicomte):

Dundee (comte et vicomte)

Go to the main page of Heraldry & Crests | Go to the letter D index Go to the previous index of names | Go to name Dundee | Go to name Dundee town of | Heraldry in Spanish Gabinete Heraldico

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