On this website we collect some interesting and useful information for the study of the history and the heraldry of the family name Gonzalez maldonado.
The most important thing is the bibliographic information about the name Gonzalez maldonado.
SEVEN things you should know about the family name Gonzalez maldonado:
1) The origin of the family name Gonzalez maldonado.
2) The meaning of the family name Gonzalez maldonado.
3) The coat of arms and crest.
4) The bibliography
5) The nobility of the family name Gonzalez maldonado.
6) The prominent persons of this family.
7) The history of the family name Gonzalez maldonado.
8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.
It is known that the Gonzalez maldonado have or have been established, among other places, in:
* Galicia (Spain).
Bibliography that collects the history and the coat of arms for the family Gonzalez maldonado:
* Linajes y Blasones de Galicia, by Father Crespo.
* 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 Gonzalez maldonado 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 Gonzalez maldonado. They are arranged alphabetically, although with additions at the end of many volumes. There are more than 17,000 names, including Gonzalez maldonado.
The work "Linajes y Blasones de Galicia", by Father Crespo, where the heraldry and the history of the family name Gonzalez maldonado appears, is the most important treatise of the heraldry of Galicia (Spain), and was published three hundred years after the appearance of the posthumous "Nobiliario, Armas y Triunfos de Galicia", by Father Felipe de la Gandara. Its author Father Crespo Pozo, had for his investigations, vigils and costly walks that were rewarded with the kind collaboration of Nobles as the Dukes of Medinaceli facilitating the archive of the Grand Casa Marquesal de Camarasa, etc. All this resulted in a plurality of sources of consultation that make the scholarly work, encyclopedic and illustrative in Galician heraldry. This work collects, as we have already said, the history and heraldry of family Gonzalez maldonado so the Gonzalez maldonado or they are Galician or linked in some of their branches to Galicia.
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) SABLE: Black color that symbolizes Prudence, Sadness, Rigor, Honesty and Obedience.
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:
* TIGER: The Tiger represents Fierceness and Valour; Resentment; Dangerous if aroused.
* AXE: The Axe symbolizes Death caused to the enemy, and also an ax or wick to illuminate.
* SEA: The Sea symbolizes a raging and wrathful spirit that does not lose, however, the limits of the obedience that it owes to its sovereign.
* HOLM: The Holm Oak is a symbol of Strong and Constant Spirit in heroic actions and courageous undertakings.
* WOLF: The Wolf is 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.
* 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.
* KNIGHT: The Knight symbolizes the Nobility.
* GOAT: The Goat symbolizes one who wins through politics rather than war.
* The family name Gonzalez maldonado 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/
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