FAMILY QUINTERO: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Quintero

Coat of arms and family crest of Quintero.

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

History and meaning for Quintero.

Quintero 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 Quintero 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 Quintero:

1) The origin of the family name Quintero.

2) The meaning of the family name Quintero.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Quintero.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Quintero.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

The family name Quintero has a Spanish coat of arms certified by the Chronicler and King of Arms Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent.

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

* Canary Islands (Spain).

* Andalusia (Spain).

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

* Repertorio de Blasones de la Comunidad Hispanica, by the Spanish King of Arms Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent.

* Heraldica de los apellidos canarios, by Lino Chaparro D`Acosta.

* Heraldario Hispanoamericano y Europeo, by Ampelio Alonso de Cadenas y Lopez and the Spanish King of Arms don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent.

* Nobiliario Espanol, by Julio de Atienza.

* Enciclopedia Hispanoamericana de Heraldica, Genealogia y Onomastica, by Arturo and Alberto Garcia Carraffa.

* Apellidos y Escudos sevillanos y cordobeses y que pasaron a Indias, by Jose Maria de Mena.

* Los Apellidos en Canarias, by Carlos Platero Fernandez.

* Blasonario de la Consanguinidad iberica.

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The Blasonario of the Iberian Consanguinity, where apper the heraldry of Quintero, consists of 7 volumes, starting the first in the year 1979 and the last in the year 1997, being its authors Ampelio Alonso de Cadenas, the King of Arms Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent (maximum authority of Spanish heraldry) and Liliana Ruiz Carrasco. It compiles a set of coats of arms and crests from different Spanish archives, others from armor stones, many from military passports and more from nobility, such as the name Quintero corresponding to a line whose origin or location is indicated, but without specific attribution to a specific family. It includes family names as Quintero of an extensive universal geography but that were part of the Iberian Community.

The history and heraldry of the family name Quintero appears in the book "Apellidos y Escudos sevillanos y cordobeses y que pasaron a Indias" by Jose Maria de Mena. The family names of Seville, among which is the surname Quintero, come mostly from the two hundred knights of lineage who reconquered Seville in 1248, accompanying King San Fernando. These surnames are, in part, from some Sevillians prior to the invasion of Spain by the Moors, that is, they go back to the Visigothic period, and even to Roman times. Some descendants of those Sevillians of the 8th century, after having lived five hundred years in exile in Asturias, Galicia or Leon, returned to Seville. Other surnames from the time of the Reconquest are of Galician, Asturian, Castilian, Catalan or Navarrese origin, of knights of San Fernando that even without coming from old Sevillian families, they decide to stay in this city. There are also family names from Mussulmanic origin. Visit https://www.heraldrycrests.com family name Quintero to know more about the last name Quintero.

The very complete history and heraldry of the family name Quintero appears in the big "Enciclopedia Hispanoamericana de Heraldica, Genealogia y Onomastica" written by brothers Arturo and Alberto Garcia Carraffa, and continued by Endika de Mogrobejo. There are more than 100 volumes that occupy this Encyclopedia where we can find the family name Quintero. They are arranged alphabetically, although with additions at the end of many volumes. There are more than 17,000 names, including Quintero.

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

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

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

* GYRON: The Gyron represents Favor.

* CHECKY: The Checky symbolizes Military Art, for which reason it is usually awarded to soldiers who have exposed their lives in combat.

* 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.

* WOLF: The Wolf is a symbol of a Constant Heart that suffers the calamities of war and siege with generous spirit; but when the time comes to fight in the open field, he fiercely fights, without giving his enemy a barracks.

* LANCE: The Lance represents Strength with Prudence.

* RABBIT: The Rabbit symbolizes Love of letters or One who enjoys a peaceable and retired life.

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

* FESS: The Fess represents the Noble Heart of the Knight, into which no betrayal or disloyalty can enter.

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