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FAMILY GORRITA: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Coat of arms and family crest of Gorrita.

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

History and meaning for Gorrita.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Gorrita:

1) The origin of the family name Gorrita.

2) The meaning of the family name Gorrita.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Gorrita.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Gorrita.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

The family name Gorrita has a Spanish coat of arms certified by the Chronicler and King of Arms Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent.

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

* Repertorio de Blasones de la Comunidad Hispanica, by the Spanish King of Arms Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent.

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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 Gorrita:

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The family name Gorrita appears collected by the Chronicler and King of Arms, Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent, in his "Repertoire of Coats of the Hispanic Community", that means that the lineage Gorrita has official coat of arms certified by King of Arms. Said Repertoire of Blazons of the Hispanic Community is the greatest work of Spanish heraldry, where the surnames with his heraldic appears like the family name Gorrita arranged alphabetically, with their coats of arms. In this work have included the content of many manuscripts of the National Library of Madrid and corresponding to Minutes of Kings of Arms and collects surnames that as Gorrita are Spanish or very linked for some reason or other to Spain, so those of the family name Gorrita are in this position. There are also thousands of heraldic and heraldic shields from several Sections of the National Historical Archive, as well as the Royal Chancery of Valladolid, Salas de los Hijodalgos of Vizcaya, etc. In summary, those of the surname Gorrita have made some test of nobility or knightage.

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

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:

* 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.

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

* BEZANT: The Bezants, due to its oriental significance, was adopted by most of the Knights who took part in the expedition to the Holy Land.

* MULBERRY: The Mulberry symbolizes Prudence and Wisdom.

* LAMB: The Lamb symbolizes the Kings and Leaders who have to sacrifice themselves to the good and care of their subjects; also denotes in the whiteness of fleeces, Qualified Nobility.

* APPLE: The Apple Tree symbolizes the Watchful Heart.

* PANELA: The Panelas are figures similar to a heart and are a symbol of Vigilant Vassal.

* TIGER: The Tiger represents Fierceness and Valour; Resentment; Dangerous if aroused.

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

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