FAMILY WEIJDEN: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Family name Weijden

Coat of arms and family crest of Weijden.

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

History and meaning for Weijden.

The heraldry and the history of the family name Weijden 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 Weijden.

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Weijden:

1) The origin of the family name Weijden.

2) The meaning of the family name Weijden.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Weijden.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Weijden.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

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

* The Netherlands, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg.

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

* Sceaux armories des Pays-Bas et des pays avoisinants, requeil historique et heraldique.

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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 Weijden:

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The history, coat of arms (shield) and family crest for the family name Weijden appears in the work "Sceaux armories des Pays-Bas et des pays avoisinants, requeil historique et heraldique", which is the most complete work dedicated to the heraldry of the Netherlands with the history, meaning and description of the coats of arms and crets for family names and lineages, among which is the last name Weijden. It is a very rare work and many of the surnames found here do not appears in any other heraldic compilation.

It may be helpful for those with the name Weijden 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 Weijden 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 Weijden 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) AZURE: Blue color that symbolizes Justice, Zeal, Truth, Loyalty, Charity and Beauty.

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

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:

* LAUREL: The Laurel is a symbol of Good Fame, and due to the perpetual greenness of its leaves, of Imperecedera Victoria.

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

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

* 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.

* STAR: The Stars symbolize Constancy in the service to the Sovereign in the jobs of Minister or Counselor.

* WOLVES: The Wolves are 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.

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

* LOZENGE: The Lozenges symbolize Constancy.

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

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

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