FAMILY FLETTINGEN: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Flettingen

Coat of arms and family crest of Flettingen.

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

History and meaning for Flettingen.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Flettingen:

1) The origin of the family name Flettingen.

2) The meaning of the family name Flettingen.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Flettingen.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Flettingen.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

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

Are you proud to belong to your family? Do you want to know and have something important related to your family?. Click here

This name is the SYMBOL OF A FAMILY. If you have been invited to a wedding, event, meeting or anniversary, make a GREAT GIFT FOR WEDDINGS, ANNIVERSARIES and events..

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 Flettingen:

Name Flettingen

Parchment with the coat of arms, origin and history for the family name Flettingen. Very cheap.

heraldry coats of arms on JPG and vectorial formats

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

Click here to see in more detail the products displayed here and other heraldry for the family name Flettingen

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

The family crest and coat of arms of Flettingen 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 Flettingen alphabetically arranged and accurately described.In addition to a full description of the arms for Flettingen, most entries identify the nationality of the arms bearer, titles of Flettingen, 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 Flettingen.

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) SABLE: Black color that symbolizes Prudence, Sadness, Rigor, Honesty and Obedience.

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

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

* STICK: The Stick symbolizes military command.

* NETTLE: The Nettle symbolizes Affliction.

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

* SPARROWHAWK: The Sparrowhawk is a symbol of Cunning.

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

* 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.

* LOZENGE: The Lozenges symbolize Constancy.

* 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.

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

Related Words: Flettingen family crest | Origin of the name Flettingen | Genealogy of the family Flettingen | Heraldry of the name Flettingen | Coat of arms of Flettingen | Genealogy of the Flettingen | Origin of the Flettingen | Meaning of the name Flettingen.

Flettingen

Images of some books referred, with information of the family name Flettingen:

Flettingen

Go to the main page of Heraldry & Crests | Go to the letter F index Go to the previous index of names | Go to name Flett | Go to name Fletwick | Heraldry in Spanish Gabinete Heraldico

All the information about the surnames that are collected in this web site are based on verified bibliography.

Origin of family name, history and coat of arms/crests