FAMILY MINTEGUIA: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Minteguia

Coat of arms and family crest of Minteguia.

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

History and meaning for Minteguia.

The heraldry and the history of the family name Minteguia have been studied and on this website we put at your disposal the sources that we know exist.

Being certainly complex, sometimes, the study of the history of a surname, here we give the starting point for all those interested in knowing more about the family name Minteguia.

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Minteguia:

1) The origin of the family name Minteguia.

2) The meaning of the family name Minteguia.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Minteguia.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Minteguia.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

It is known that the Minteguia have or have been established, among other places, in:

* Basque Country and / or Navarre (Spain).

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

* El Solar Vasco Navarro, by Arturo and Alberto Garcia Carraffa.

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That the last name Minteguia is in "El Solar Vasco Navarro" by the Garcia Carraffa brothers means that the Minteguia are of Basque, Navarre, or other origin but settled in the Basque Country and / or Navarre. The Basque family names were formed taking into account the names of the places, and the personal ones varied in each generation and even between brothers. It was customary to take the name of the lot to demonstrate ownership over it. The name of the plants, rivers, mountains, forests, rocks, fields served as inspiration. You can distinguish terms, as the meaning of the colors or pieces that make up the coats of arms, to have the nobiliary historical information of the family name Minteguia, to know the fights of nobility of the Minteguia, income to military orders, to know about the nobility titles that may have the persons with the last name Minteguia, honorary offices or public offices of the Minteguia.

It may be helpful for those with the name Minteguia 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 Minteguia 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 Minteguia 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) OR (Gold): Nobility, Magnanimity, Wealth, Power, Light, Constancy and Wisdom.

2) AZURE: Blue color that symbolizes Justice, Zeal, Truth, Loyalty, Charity and Beauty.

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:

* ANCHOR: The Anchor is a symbol of Hope, it also means security and constancy, even in the greatest setbacks of fortune.

* CYPRESS: The Cypress symbolizes Elevated and Incorruptible Thoughts.

* 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.

* 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.

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

* FLEUR-DE-LIS: The Fleur-de-lis represents the Generous Courage that, for received grievances, repeatedly returns benefits, and is a symbol of French heraldry.

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* ROUNDLE: The Roundles symbolize the bucklers that the soldiers carried as a defensive weapon.

* The family name Minteguia 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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