FAMILY LOWIG: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Lowig

Coat of arms and family crest of Lowig.

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

History and meaning for Lowig.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Lowig:

1) The origin of the family name Lowig.

2) The meaning of the family name Lowig.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Lowig.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Lowig.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

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

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

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

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

3) SABLE: Black color that symbolizes Prudence, Sadness, Rigor, Honesty and Obedience.

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

* LANCE: The Lance represents Strength with Prudence.

* CHAIN: The Chain generally means Captivity suffered by the defense of the King or the Homeland.

* 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.

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

* bandaNOusar: La Banda es símbolo del tahalí, con que los Caballeros sujetaban su espada y también de la banda de color que usaban sobre su armadura los Generales y Capitanes.

* CABRIO: The Cabrio symbolizes the boots and spurs, and for this reason it was granted as an adornment of the shield to the Knight who was wounded from the combat in his legs.

* PELICAN: The Pelican is a symbol of the Charitable and Pious Lord towards his vassals.

* ANJOU: The Chief of Anjou, belonging to Italian heraldry, represents a political alliance with the Welf party (derived from Welf, Duke of Bavaria) who were loyal to the Pope.

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

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

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Go to the main page of Heraldry & Crests | Go to the letter L index Go to the previous index of names | Go to name Lowicki | Go to name Lowijchs | Heraldry in Spanish Gabinete Heraldico

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