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FAMILY SURMAY: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Coat of arms and family crest of Surmay.

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

History and meaning for Surmay.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Surmay:

1) The origin of the family name Surmay.

2) The meaning of the family name Surmay.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Surmay.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Surmay.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

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

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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 Surmay:

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The family name Surmay is registered in the "Heraldario Espanol, Europeo y Americano" by Ampelio Alonso de Cadenas and the King of Arms Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent. In this work there are names, like Surmay that have branches in America and / or Europe.

It may be helpful for those with the name Surmay 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 Surmay 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 Surmay 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) SABLE: Black color that symbolizes Prudence, Sadness, Rigor, Honesty and Obedience.

2) GULES: Red color that symbolizes Strength, Victory, Daring and Highness.

3) ARGENT (Silver): Purity, Integrity, Obedience, Firmness, Surveillance, Eloquence and Expiration.

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

* GOAT: The Goat symbolizes one who wins through politics rather than war.

* SPARROWHAWK: The Sparrowhawk is a symbol of Cunning.

* HAND: The Hand symbolizes Open Generosity; if it is closed, Strength, and linked with another, Friendship.

* 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.

* GRIFFIN: The Griffin, half eagle and half lion, is an emblem of Ingenuity and Greatness.

* CRANE: The Crane is a symbol of a well-ordered Government under the power of a good boss, who distributes surveillance in turns; it also symbolizes Prudence in the art of governing peoples well.

* SNAKE: The Snakes symbolize Prudence and Cunning.

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

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