FAMILY GRAM: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Gram

Coat of arms and family crest of Gram.

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

History and meaning for Gram.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Gram:

1) The origin of the family name Gram.

2) The meaning of the family name Gram.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Gram.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Gram.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* Armorial General by Johan Baptiste Rietstap. Contains blazons, descriptions and drawings of coats of arms, crests, origins of family names and nobility

* Enciclopedia Hispanoamericana de Heraldica, Genealogia y Onomastica, by Arturo and Alberto Garcia Carraffa.

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

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

The very complete history and heraldry of the family name Gram 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 Gram. They are arranged alphabetically, although with additions at the end of many volumes. There are more than 17,000 names, including Gram.

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) OR (Gold): Nobility, Magnanimity, Wealth, Power, Light, Constancy and Wisdom.

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

3) ARGENT (Silver): Purity, Integrity, Obedience, Firmness, Surveillance, Eloquence and Expiration.

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

* STICK: The Stick symbolizes military command.

* 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.

* DOG: The Dog is a symbol of Faithful Vassal.

* LION: The Lion symbolizes the Generously Warrior Spirit, adorned with the qualities of Vigilance, Dominion, Sovereignty, Majesty and Bravery.

* OLIVE: The Olive Tree is a symbol of Peace, due to the perennial green of its leaves, it also means Immutable Courage against adverse fortune.

* 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.

* SWAN: The Swan, by the tradition that he sings sweetly when he is about to die, means Ancient Nobility, without stain of any kind, who dies courageously executing glorious undertakings.

* EMPIRE: The Head of the Empire, belonging to Italian heraldry, represents a political alliance with the Ghibelline party (derived from the Hohenstaufen, Lords of Waibling) who were loyal to the Emperor.

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

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

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