FAMILY PORTALEGRE: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Portalegre

Coat of arms and family crest of Portalegre.

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

History and meaning for Portalegre.

Portalegre 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 Portalegre 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 Portalegre:

1) The origin of the family name Portalegre.

2) The meaning of the family name Portalegre.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Portalegre.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Portalegre.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* 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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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 Portalegre:

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

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

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

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

3) PURPLE: Justice, Wit, Truth, Greatness, Wisdom and Love; those who wear this color are obliged to defend the Prince defending ecclesiastical people.

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

* TIGER: The Tiger represents Fierceness and Valour; Resentment; Dangerous if aroused.

* KNIGHT: The Knight symbolizes the Nobility.

* LOZENGE: The Lozenges symbolize Constancy.

* ROSE: The Roses are an emblem of Beauty, of the Immaculate Honor, of the Nobility, of the recognized Merit and symbolize Constancy against depletions of fortune and Fierce Push to avenge the offenses that affect the trunk of their lineage.

* LAUREL: The Laurel is a symbol of Good Fame, and due to the perpetual greenness of its leaves, of Imperecedera Victoria.

* CASTLE: The Castle, due to the superiority of its strength over other buildings, denotes Greatness and Power, used to defend friends and allies, resisting the enemy invincibly.

* SPARROWHAWK: The Sparrowhawk is a symbol of Cunning.

* 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.

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

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

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Go to the main page of Heraldry & Crests | Go to the letter P index Go to the previous index of names | Go to name Portalecoa | Go to name Portales | Heraldry in Spanish Gabinete Heraldico

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