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FAMILY DONCOSTAL: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Coat of arms and family crest of Doncostal.

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

History and meaning for Doncostal.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Doncostal:

1) The origin of the family name Doncostal.

2) The meaning of the family name Doncostal.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Doncostal.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Doncostal.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* Basque Country and / or Navarre (Spain).

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

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

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

That the last name Doncostal is in "El Solar Vasco Navarro" by the Garcia Carraffa brothers means that the Doncostal are of Basque, Navarre, or other origin but settled in the Basque Country and / or Navarre. The Basque family names were formed taking into account the names of the places, and the personal ones varied in each generation and even between brothers. It was customary to take the name of the lot to demonstrate ownership over it. The name of the plants, rivers, mountains, forests, rocks, fields served as inspiration. You can distinguish terms, as the meaning of the colors or pieces that make up the coats of arms, to have the nobiliary historical information of the family name Doncostal, to know the fights of nobility of the Doncostal, income to military orders, to know about the nobility titles that may have the persons with the last name Doncostal, honorary offices or public offices of the Doncostal.

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

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:

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

* WOLVES: The Wolves are 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.

* 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.

* GYRON: The Gyron represents Favor.

* PALM: The Palm Tree symbolizes Victory and Triumph.

* LION: The Lion symbolizes the Generously Warrior Spirit, adorned with the qualities of Vigilance, Dominion, Sovereignty, Majesty and Bravery.

* ERMINE: The Ermines symbolize Purity and Fidelity placed at the service of the Prince.

* FUSIL: The Fusil is a symbol of Righteousness, Prudence and Equity and of the conveniences achieved through these virtues; it serves as a hieroglyph for those who gathered many goods using lawful and upright means.

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