Author Topic: Post your family crest (Read 2847 times)

Semnae · « **on:** April 06, 2010, 03:28:38 AM »

http://www.houseofnames.com/ is a good source for finding your family crest if you have a European surname. Post them if you have them.

SeventyX7 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 06, 2010, 04:00:33 AM »

But my surname is the most common one in Germany. $:-\$

Enzedder · « **Reply #2 on:** April 06, 2010, 04:36:18 AM »

According to that site my origins are Scottish. Sounds about right.

mizore · « **Reply #3 on:** April 06, 2010, 05:23:54 AM »

My last name directly implicates me as descendant from a short, crazy, tyrannical, and fairly psychopathic French conqueror.

So, no way I'm posting that crest.

Enzedder · « **Reply #4 on:** April 06, 2010, 05:43:13 AM »

Quote from: mizore on April 06, 2010, 05:23:54 AM

My last name directly implicates me as descendant from a short, crazy, tyrannical, and fairly psychopathic French conqueror.

So, no way I'm posting that crest.

Come on! You can do it! We won't judge... honest.

kurandoinu · « **Reply #5 on:** April 06, 2010, 06:31:45 AM »

Can't get the image to copy for some strange reason, so here's one from another site.

No real surprise there, I knew I was of Irish decent on my dads side anyway

BLAST420 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 06, 2010, 06:42:53 AM »

Apparently some of my ancestors where guards or watchmen of some sort.

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Takeshi · « **Reply #7 on:** April 06, 2010, 07:03:51 AM »

That website is crap, says my surname "Tran" is English when it's actually Vietnamese.

forsaken · « **Reply #8 on:** April 06, 2010, 07:28:36 AM »

It got my name's origins right, though I doubt the crest is acurate as they all seem to look the same. Besides, you can register your own made-up family crest for a nominal fee of a few hundred pounds, technically making yourself a duke as I understand it. You can officially call yourself Sir as oppose to Mr. Not sure that's how proper nobility works, but I think that this is actually possible...

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The Origins of the proud surname kohl can be traced to the historic kingdom of Bohemia, which is now part of Czechoslovakia. In the Middle Ages, Bohemia was a part of the Holy Roman Empire, which was characterized by the Feudal System. Before this era, people were known only by a single name.
However, as the population increased and travelers set out on their journeys, it became necessary for people to adopt a second name to identify themselves. Many people, such as the kohl family, adopted the name of their feudal occupation as their surname. However, an occupational name did not become a hereditary surname until the office or type of employment became hereditary. The kohl name derives from the Old German word "cholo," which meant "cabbage;" the surname was an occupational name for a person who grew or sold cabbages.

Nothing new there, Kohl is the German word for Cabbage ie. my ancestors were at some point cabbage farmers. Go figure

As for this surname being "proud",..

Proin Drakenzol · « **Reply #9 on:** April 06, 2010, 09:52:07 AM »

And the Jew doesn't have one.

Not surprising. Jews were almost non-existent as part of the European nobility. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is the Herzog family (descended from Baron Herzog of the Austro-Hungarian Empire).

Lurch · « **Reply #10 on:** April 06, 2010, 11:51:57 AM »

Apparently a Welsh surname, (one of many spelling variations due to illiteracy...) which is actually news to me.

Sadly this is all I could think of when I read it:

forsaken · « **Reply #11 on:** April 06, 2010, 12:06:53 PM »

Quote from: Lurch on April 06, 2010, 11:51:57 AM

Apparently a Welsh surname, (one of many spelling variations due to illiteracy...) which is actually news to me.

Sadly this is all I could think of when I read it:

Welshyyyy ^^

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nstgc · « **Reply #12 on:** April 06, 2010, 12:23:43 PM »

My family crest doesn't match the one the site gives.

drugis · « **Reply #13 on:** April 06, 2010, 02:51:00 PM »

okay, I made a search for the Danish surname Andersen which literally means son of Anders.
Its a peasant surname so there shouldn't be any coat of arms.
I tried with a few other surnames which should not have a Coat of Arms, and still got more
(Hansen, Jensen, Pedersen and Nielsen for an example),
then i tried my own surname Leth, which is an actual noble surname and compared their 'Coat of Arms',
with the real coat of arms of this family Surprisingly they didn't match.

http://www.houseofnames.com/fc.asp?sId=B15E55D2-6CD3-48A3-9E7D-49F0AC897586&s=leth
that is House of names 'coat of arms'

this is the actual coat of arms:
http://www.roskildehistorie.dk/stamtavler/adel/Leth/Leth-filer/image013.jpg

so even if your family name is of noble origin you should not trust what they say as their history is as much of as their coat of arms

i_am_otep · « **Reply #14 on:** April 06, 2010, 03:23:54 PM »

Got two origins...
Spanish

and German

I know the spanish one is right but the german, I don't think so...

Klocknov · « **Reply #15 on:** April 08, 2010, 07:09:02 PM »

Seems correct after doing a bit of a dig into the Coat of Arm. The history part of the name was a bit of a shocker to see right since the last time I tried to research my name I was mixed in with a bunch of English and French commoners... as it is Italian.

Though my last didn't have one to no surprise, I just knew my mum's maiden name would. Though they have my papa's family coat of arms wrong on there.

Sosseres · « **Reply #16 on:** April 08, 2010, 09:23:58 PM »

Quote from: Proin Drakenzol on April 06, 2010, 09:52:07 AM

And the Jew doesn't have one.

Not surprising. Jews were almost non-existent as part of the European nobility. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is the Herzog family (descended from Baron Herzog of the Austro-Hungarian Empire).

http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/Origin.JE/qx/Feldt-family-crest.htm An example of a jew one. There was a lot of very minor nobility whose lot in life was retainers.

The hits I found on names related to my family had the wrong origins.

Mirgond · « **Reply #17 on:** April 08, 2010, 09:43:54 PM »

Quote from: i_am_otep on April 06, 2010, 03:23:54 PM

Got two origins...
Spanish

and German

I know the spanish one is right but the german, I don't think so...

More than one crest for one family is normal, since every family branch, even if they had the same name, had different crests for differentiation...

If you really want to find the crest of your family branch you have to get your family tree and take a look at the official Roll of arms in europe (or whereever your family is from). With some luck, if your family branch had a crest, you'll find it, and can use that.
Although it is no problem to create a new crest and register it at one of the Roll of arms for your family. Then you'll really know what yours is

I would be cautios with those pages on the web that claim to know the crest of your family (reason above) and make money with those...

Oh, and here a nice link for some original crest

edit: just saw that not all names from the pictures are in the list... so just take a look even if your name is not in the list

and another link to a list of pages with crests : click here

harlock81 · « **Reply #18 on:** April 10, 2010, 04:23:36 AM »

http://www.houseofnames.com/fc.asp?sId=&s=sheaffer

But like most above have stated these arent the most accurate they just grab what they can find and most families have several crests anyway. But they are still always nice to look at

kyanwan · « **Reply #19 on:** April 13, 2010, 08:08:14 AM »

Says that's ours.

The respectable part of my family is English. We're all descended from a British soldier who came here to the US in 1632.