And here we make available to students of the family name Windisch-graetz an important bibliographical information that collects its heraldic and genealogy, that are a beginning of face to the study of this family.
The family name Windisch-graetz is a COMPOSITE surname of the surname Windisch, which appears first, and graetz.
SEVEN things you should know about the family name Windisch-graetz:
1) The origin of the family name Windisch-graetz.
2) The meaning of the family name Windisch-graetz.
3) The coat of arms and crest.
4) The bibliography
5) The nobility of the family name Windisch-graetz.
6) The prominent persons of this family.
7) The history of the family name Windisch-graetz.
8) Do you know what heraldic drawings mean?.
The family name Windisch-graetz has a Spanish coat of arms certified by the Chronicler and King of Arms Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent.
Bibliography that collects the history and the coat of arms for the family Windisch-graetz:
* Repertorio de Blasones de la Comunidad Hispanica, by the Spanish King of Arms Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent.
* Blasonario de la Consanguinidad iberica.
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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 Windisch-graetz:
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The Blasonario of the Iberian Consanguinity, where apper the heraldry of Windisch-graetz, consists of 7 volumes, starting the first in the year 1979 and the last in the year 1997, being its authors Ampelio Alonso de Cadenas, the King of Arms Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent (maximum authority of Spanish heraldry) and Liliana Ruiz Carrasco. It compiles a set of coats of arms and crests from different Spanish archives, others from armor stones, many from military passports and more from nobility, such as the name Windisch-graetz corresponding to a line whose origin or location is indicated, but without specific attribution to a specific family. It includes family names as Windisch-graetz of an extensive universal geography but that were part of the Iberian Community.
The family name Windisch-graetz appears collected by the Chronicler and King of Arms, Don Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent, in his "Repertoire of Coats of the Hispanic Community", that means that the lineage Windisch-graetz has official coat of arms certified by King of Arms. Said Repertoire of Blazons of the Hispanic Community is the greatest work of Spanish heraldry, where the surnames with his heraldic appears like the family name Windisch-graetz arranged alphabetically, with their coats of arms. In this work have included the content of many manuscripts of the National Library of Madrid and corresponding to Minutes of Kings of Arms and collects surnames that as Windisch-graetz are Spanish or very linked for some reason or other to Spain, so those of the family name Windisch-graetz are in this position. There are also thousands of heraldic and heraldic shields from several Sections of the National Historical Archive, as well as the Royal Chancery of Valladolid, Salas de los Hijodalgos of Vizcaya, etc. In summary, those of the surname Windisch-graetz have made some test of nobility or knightage.
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) GULES: Red color that symbolizes Strength, Victory, Daring and Highness.
2) AZURE: Blue color that symbolizes Justice, Zeal, Truth, Loyalty, Charity and Beauty.
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:
* GYRON: The Gyron represents Favor.
* LANCE: The Lance represents Strength with Prudence.
* 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.
* TURTLE: The Turtle is one of the most noble figures, being a symbol of the Knight who retires late from combat, facing his enemy until the last moment, trusting in his own strength.
* CHEVRON: The Chevron symbolizes the boots and spurs, and for this reason it was granted as an adornment of the shield to the Knight who was wounded from the combat in his legs.
* 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.
* WATER: The Water is a symbol of Enlightened Wisdom, of Virtuous Mood, and can also symbolize domain extension.
* ARROW: The Fess represents Readiness (for battle); if depicted with a cross, represents an affliction.
* The family name Windisch-graetz 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 Windisch-graetz as well as its history is at your disposal here: Heraldry, history, origin, crest and coat of arms of the family name Windisch-graetz
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