This weeks showcased coat-of-arms will be the surname 'Ricci' from Italy. Information for this coat-of-arms was found in 'Rieistap's Armorial General, Book 2, page CLVI, 1st row and 1st plate'.
ARMS: Argent (silver) on a terrace vert (green) a hedgehog proper on a chief or (gold) three roses gules (red)
CREST: A rose as in the arms
MOTTO: No family motto found
Lets break this down. We will start with the arms:
Lets break this down. We will start with the arms:
ARGENT
(Silver or White): Sometimes fancifully called Luna in the arms
of princes, as also Pearl in those of peers: peace and sincerity.
TERRACE:
Having a mount in base, and represented as covered with grass.
VERT
(Green); (fr. sinople): The French are said to have called it
Sinople, from a town in Asia Minor (Sinope) from which were brought
the best materials for dyeing green, or silks and stuffs of a
brilliant green color; signifies hope, joy, and loyalty in love.
HEDGEHOG:
It collects its stores for the winter with its prickles and is
symbolic of a provident provider.
CHIEF:
An honorable ordinary occupying the whole of the top and
one-third of the total surface of the shield, and it has often been
granted as a special reward for prudence and wisdom, as well as for
successful command in war. The Chief betoken a senator or honorable
personage borrowed from the Greeks, and is a word signifying a
‘head’, in which sense we call capitaneous (so named for caput,
the head), a chieftain. And as the head is the chief part of a man,
so the Chief in the escutcheon should be a reward of such one, whose
high merits have procured them chief place, esteem, or love amongst
men.
CHIEF:
An honorable ordinary occupying the whole of the top and
one-third of the total surface of the shield, and it has often been
granted as a special reward for prudence and wisdom, as well as for
successful command in war. The Chief betoken a senator or honorable
personage borrowed from the Greeks, and is a word signifying a
‘head’, in which sense we call capitaneous (so named for caput,
the head), a chieftain. And as the head is the chief part of a man,
so the Chief in the escutcheon should be a reward of such one, whose
high merits have procured them chief place, esteem, or love amongst
men.
ROSE:
The early Greeks and the Romans inexorably linked the rose to love,
beauty, purity and passion. The Christians adopted the Rose as a
symbol of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and hence became a symbol of
motherhood and purity.
GULES
(Red): The term is probably
derived from the Arabic gule, a red rose; introduced by the
Crusaders. Some historians feel the word is derived from the Latin
gula, which in old French is found as gueule, i.e. the "red
throat of an animal." Others, again, have tried to find the
origin in the Hebrew word gulade, which signifies red cloth.
Symbolizes a warrior or martyr; military strength and magnanimity.
Next we will discuss the crest:
It is the rose as in the arms so it has the same meaning as discussed above.
MEANING
OF NAME: Nickname
for a person with curly hair, from riccio
‘curly’,
or from a personal name of the same derivation.
Next week we will showcase the coat-of-arms of 'Lauer'.
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