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FAMILY GUNS: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Coat of arms and family crest of Guns.

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

History and meaning for Guns.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Guns:

1) The origin of the family name Guns.

2) The meaning of the family name Guns.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Guns.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Guns.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* 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 Guns:

Name Guns

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Burnt Parchment with the coat of arms, origin and history for the family name Guns.
heraldry coats of arms on JPG and vectorial formats

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

coat of arms sticker for Guns

Coat of arms for the name Guns in sticker, and its history in other document. Or stickers of what you want, personalized.

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

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

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:

* CRESCENT: The Crescent, of oriental origin, symbolizes Victory against the darkness of slander, and Emulations against inconstancy and fickleness.

* HOLM: The Holm Oak is a symbol of Strong and Constant Spirit in heroic actions and courageous undertakings.

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

* RABBIT: The Rabbit symbolizes Love of letters or One who enjoys a peaceable and retired life.

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

* LEOPARD: The Leopard represents the Courageous and Endeavoring Knight who has carried out some daring enterprise using cunning rather than force to complete it.

* STICK: The Stick symbolizes military command.

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

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

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

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Go to the main page of Heraldry & Crests | Go to the letter G index Go to the previous index of names | Go to name Guñon | Go to name Gunsmiths company of | 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