We use cookies to analyze our website traffic. You can see our cookie policy here. If you continue browsing you are accepting it.
Policy of cookies +

FAMILY STENBOCK: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Coat of arms and family crest of Stenbock.

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

History and meaning for Stenbock.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Stenbock:

1) The origin of the family name Stenbock.

2) The meaning of the family name Stenbock.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Stenbock.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Stenbock.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* Armorial General by Johan Baptiste Rietstap. Contains blazons, descriptions and drawings of coats of arms, crests, origins of family names and nobility

Are you proud to belong to your family? Do you want to know and have something important related to your family?. Click here

This name is the SYMBOL OF A FAMILY. If you have been invited to a wedding, event, meeting or anniversary, make a GREAT GIFT FOR WEDDINGS, ANNIVERSARIES and events..

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 Stenbock:

Name Stenbock

Parchment with the coat of arms, origin and history for the family name Stenbock. Very cheap.

burnt parchment for Stenbock name

Burnt Parchment with the coat of arms, origin and history for the family name Stenbock.
heraldry coats of arms on JPG and vectorial formats

Coat of arms for Stenbock and the history and origin for the family name Stenbock in JPG or Vectorial files as Corel-Draw, AI, WMF, etc.

coat of arms sticker for Stenbock

Coat of arms for the name Stenbock in sticker, and its history in other document. Or stickers of what you want, personalized.

Click here to see in more detail the products displayed here and other heraldry for the family name Stenbock

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

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

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:

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

* GRAPE: The Grapes symbolizes Liberality, felicity, and peace; also, association with wine-making.

* BEZANT: The Bezants, due to its oriental significance, was adopted by most of the Knights who took part in the expedition to the Holy Land.

* PALM: The Palm Tree symbolizes Victory and Triumph.

* ANCHOR: The Anchor is a symbol of Hope, it also means security and constancy, even in the greatest setbacks of fortune.

* STICK: The Stick symbolizes military command.

* BULL: The Bull symbolizes Generous Chest, in whom the memories of his lineage, represented in the red of his blood, inflame the desire for great enterprises.

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

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

Related Words: Stenbock family crest | Origin of the name Stenbock | Genealogy of the family Stenbock | Heraldry of the name Stenbock | Coat of arms of Stenbock | Genealogy of the Stenbock | Origin of the Stenbock | Meaning of the name Stenbock.

Stenbock

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

Stenbock

Go to the main page of Heraldry & Crests | Go to the letter S index Go to the previous index of names | Go to name Stenbier de wideux | Go to name Stenbock-fermor | Heraldry in Spanish Gabinete Heraldico

All the information about the surnames that are collected in this web site are based on verified bibliography.

Origin of family name, history and coat of arms/crests