FAMILY MELIJS: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Melijs

Coat of arms and family crest of Melijs.

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

History and meaning for Melijs.

Melijs is a family name that we know that there is information about its heraldry, its history and its genealogy.

And here we make available to students of the family name Melijs an important bibliographical information that collects its heraldic and genealogy, that are a beginning of face to the study of this family.

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Melijs:

1) The origin of the family name Melijs.

2) The meaning of the family name Melijs.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Melijs.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Melijs.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

It is known that the Melijs 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 Melijs:

* 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 Melijs:

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The history, coat of arms (shield) and family crest for the family name Melijs 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 Melijs. 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 Melijs 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 Melijs 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 Melijs 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) SABLE: Black color that symbolizes Prudence, Sadness, Rigor, Honesty and Obedience.

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:

* KEY: The Keys symbolize Fidelity and Secrecy.

* CYPRESS: The Cypress symbolizes Elevated and Incorruptible Thoughts.

* CROSS: The Cross symbolizes the sword of the Knights, to whom this piece was granted when they returned from combat with their sword dyed in enemy blood. The Cross was also taken as a teaching by most of the Crusaders.

* THISTLE: The Thistle symbolizes in Heraldry a heart nobly humble, but so careful of its honor, that it defends with its sword the luster of its lineage.

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

* WALL: The Wall represents the Noble Heart of the Knight, in which no betrayal or disloyalty can enter.

* FIG: The Fig Tree or its leaves symbolize the State Benefactors.

* KNIGHT: The Knight symbolizes the Nobility.

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

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

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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 Melijn | Go to name Melijs soen | Heraldry in Spanish Gabinete Heraldico

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