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FAMILY WERCHTEREN: COAT OF ARMS / CREST & MEANING

Coat of arms and family crest of Werchteren.

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

History and meaning for Werchteren.

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

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

SEVEN things you should know about the family name Werchteren:

1) The origin of the family name Werchteren.

2) The meaning of the family name Werchteren.

3) The coat of arms and crest.

4) The bibliography

5) The nobility of the family name Werchteren.

6) The prominent persons of this family.

7) The history of the family name Werchteren.

8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.

It is known that the Werchteren 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 Werchteren:

* 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 Werchteren:

Name Werchteren

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

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

coat of arms sticker for Werchteren

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

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The history, coat of arms (shield) and family crest for the family name Werchteren 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 Werchteren. It is a very rare work and many of the surnames found here do not appears in any other heraldic compilation.

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

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

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

* 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.

* ANGIO: The Chief of Angio, belonging to Italian heraldry, represents a political alliance with the Welf party (derived from Welf, Duke of Bavaria) who were loyal to the Pope.

* FIG: The Fig Tree or its leaves symbolize the State Benefactors.

* ARROW: The Fess represents Readiness (for battle); if depicted with a cross, represents an affliction.

* BRIDGE: The Bridge symbolizes Alliance and Union.

* WATER: The Water is a symbol of Enlightened Wisdom, of Virtuous Mood, and can also symbolize domain extension.

* WINDMILL: The Windmills and their Wheels are a symbol of Obedience, because they face the violence of the current and obey the movement that it prints.

* 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.

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

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

Werchteren

Go to the main page of Heraldry & Crests | Go to the letter W index Go to the previous index of names | Go to name Werchter | Go to name Werd | 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