FAMILY SOPALACIOS: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Sopalacios

Coat of arms and family crest of Sopalacios.

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

History and meaning for Sopalacios.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Sopalacios:

1) The origin of the family name Sopalacios.

2) The meaning of the family name Sopalacios.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Sopalacios.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Sopalacios.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* Blasonario de la Consanguinidad iberica.

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The Blasonario of the Iberian Consanguinity, where apper the heraldry of Sopalacios, 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 Sopalacios corresponding to a line whose origin or location is indicated, but without specific attribution to a specific family. It includes family names as Sopalacios of an extensive universal geography but that were part of the Iberian Community.

It may be helpful for those with the name Sopalacios 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 Sopalacios 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 Sopalacios 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) ARGENT (Silver): Purity, Integrity, Obedience, Firmness, Surveillance, Eloquence and Expiration.

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

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:

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

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

* CYPRESS: The Cypress symbolizes Elevated and Incorruptible Thoughts.

* EYE: The Eye is a symbol of Ingenuity and Capacity, if both are painted it symbolizes Vigilance and Care.

* SHELL: The Shell symbolizes the Knight who marches to the borders of his states to widen them by fighting; it is also a symbol of Pilgrim.

* DRAGANTE: Los Dragantes simbolizan el Cuidado y Vigilancia más exquisitos.

* 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.

* LANCE: The Lance represents Strength with Prudence.

* The family name Sopalacios 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/

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