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FAMILY FORTESCU: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Coat of arms and family crest of Fortescu.

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

History and meaning for Fortescu.

We know that the family name Fortescu 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 Fortescu:

1) The origin of the family name Fortescu.

2) The meaning of the family name Fortescu.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Fortescu.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Fortescu.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

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It may be helpful for those with the name Fortescu 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 Fortescu 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 Fortescu can have graphic variants.

The coat of arms, family crest, meaning, history and heraldry for Fortescu appears in some or some books of the wide heraldic library of the Heraldry & Crests ( https://www.heraldrycrests.com ). In this web of the surname Fortescu some of the mentioned books appear, although there are more works.There are also data of Fortescu in parochial records of baptisms, marriages and deaths.

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) PURPLE: Justice, Wit, Truth, Greatness, Wisdom and Love; those who wear this color are obliged to defend the Prince defending ecclesiastical people.

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

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

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

* 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.

* IVY: The Ivy symbolizes Love Bond and also Triumph.

* STAG: The Stag symbolizes Effortless Courage, which draws and recovers energy even on the most adverse occasions.

* FLEUR-DE-LIS: The Fleur-de-lis represents the Generous Courage that, for received grievances, repeatedly returns benefits, and is a symbol of French heraldry.

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

* STICK: The Stick symbolizes military command.

* LANCE: The Lance represents Strength with Prudence.

* ANJOU: The Chief of Anjou, belonging to Italian heraldry, represents a political alliance with the Welf party (derived from Welf, Duke of Bavaria) who were loyal to the Pope.

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

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