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FAMILY TOLLEN: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Coat of arms and family crest of Tollen.

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

History and meaning for Tollen.

The heraldry and the history of the family name Tollen have been studied and on this website we put at your disposal the sources that we know exist.

Being certainly complex, sometimes, the study of the history of a surname, here we give the starting point for all those interested in knowing more about the family name Tollen.

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Tollen:

1) The origin of the family name Tollen.

2) The meaning of the family name Tollen.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Tollen.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Tollen.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* 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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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 Tollen:

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burnt parchment for Tollen name

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

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

coat of arms sticker for Tollen

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

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

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

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

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

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

* HAWK: The Hawk symbolizes Noble and Strong chest in companies of honor, which fails to achieve them faints of shame.

* TREE: The Tree is a symbol of Ancient and Clarified Nobility.

* MARTLET: The Martlets mean the number of defeated enemies and are the distinctive mark of the fourth son.

* SEA: The Sea symbolizes a raging and wrathful spirit that does not lose, however, the limits of the obedience that it owes to its sovereign.

* RIVER: The River symbolizes, due to its condition of increasing its flow as it advances, the Knight who leaves his house with a desire to advance and returns to it enriched with Erudition and Fortune.

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

* PIGEON: The Pigeon is a symbol of Health; in the coat of arms it denotes Fidelity and Love. It is the emblem of the Third Person of the Holy Trinity and, as such, adorns the currency of the French Order of the Holy Spirit.

* EMPIRE: The Head of the Empire, belonging to Italian heraldry, represents a political alliance with the Ghibelline party (derived from the Hohenstaufen, Lords of Waibling) who were loyal to the Emperor.

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

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

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Go to the main page of Heraldry & Crests | Go to the letter T index Go to the previous index of names | Go to name Tollemache comte de dysart | Go to name Tollenaer | Heraldry in Spanish Gabinete Heraldico

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