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FAMILY MEENCHE: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Coat of arms and family crest of Meenche.

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

History and meaning for Meenche.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Meenche:

1) The origin of the family name Meenche.

2) The meaning of the family name Meenche.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Meenche.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Meenche.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* The Netherlands, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg.

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

* Sceaux armories des Pays-Bas et des pays avoisinants, requeil historique et heraldique.

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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 Meenche:

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Coat of arms for Meenche and the history and origin for the family name Meenche in JPG or Vectorial files as Corel-Draw, AI, WMF, etc.

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The history, coat of arms (shield) and family crest for the family name Meenche appears in the work "Sceaux armories des Pays-Bas et des pays avoisinants, requeil historique et heraldique", which is the most complete work dedicated to the heraldry of the Netherlands with the history, meaning and description of the coats of arms and crets for family names and lineages, among which is the last name Meenche. It is a very rare work and many of the surnames found here do not appears in any other heraldic compilation.

It may be helpful for those with the name Meenche 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 Meenche 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 Meenche 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) SABLE: Black color that symbolizes Prudence, Sadness, Rigor, Honesty and Obedience.

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:

* LANCE: The Lance represents Strength with Prudence.

* SCEPTER: The Scepter represents Dignity.

* 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.

* TROUT: The Trout is a symbol of Ardent Spirit in war and Calm and Serene in Peace.

* HORSE: The Horse is considered the symbol of war, representing Boldness and Speed in Action.

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

* STICK: The Stick symbolizes military command.

* 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.

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

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

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Go to the main page of Heraldry & Crests | Go to the letter M index Go to the previous index of names | Go to name Meeman | Go to name Meene | Heraldry in Spanish Gabinete Heraldico

All the information about the surnames that are collected in this web site are based on verified bibliography.

Origin of family name, history and coat of arms/crests