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FAMILY GOUICQUET: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Coat of arms and family crest of Gouicquet.

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

History and meaning for Gouicquet.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Gouicquet:

1) The origin of the family name Gouicquet.

2) The meaning of the family name Gouicquet.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Gouicquet.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Gouicquet.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

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

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

It may be helpful for those with the name Gouicquet 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 Gouicquet 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 Gouicquet 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) PURPLE: Justice, Wit, Truth, Greatness, Wisdom and Love; those who wear this color are obliged to defend the Prince defending ecclesiastical people.

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

* FOUNTAIN: The Fountain is a symbol of Philanthropy and Splendidity.

* MARTLET: The Martlets mean the number of defeated enemies and are the distinctive mark of the fourth son.

* STICK: The Stick symbolizes military command.

* ERMINE: The Ermines symbolize Purity and Fidelity placed at the service of the Prince.

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

* WINDMILL: The Windmills and their Wheels are a symbol of Obedience, because they face the violence of the current and obey the movement that it prints.

* 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.

* SCEPTER: The Scepter represents Dignity.

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

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

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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 Gouhier | Go to name Gouie | Heraldry in Spanish Gabinete Heraldico

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