FAMILY QUEVILLY: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Quevilly

Coat of arms and family crest of Quevilly.

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

History and meaning for Quevilly.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Quevilly:

1) The origin of the family name Quevilly.

2) The meaning of the family name Quevilly.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Quevilly.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Quevilly.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

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

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

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

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

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

* 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.

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

* LANCE: The Lance represents Strength with Prudence.

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

* BRIDGE: The Bridge symbolizes Alliance and Union.

* BEAR: The Bear is a symbol of Strength and skill in handling weapons against the enemy, achieving Victory.

* MULBERRY: The Mulberry symbolizes Prudence and Wisdom.

* LEOPARD: The Leopard represents the Courageous and Endeavoring Knight who has carried out some daring enterprise using cunning rather than force to complete it.

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

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

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Go to the main page of Heraldry & Crests | Go to the letter Q index Go to the previous index of names | Go to name Queville | Go to name Quevin | Heraldry in Spanish Gabinete Heraldico

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