Coat of Arms

click here in order to see the coat of arms that corresponds to your surname

NOTE: The coat of arms of Monroy shown in this link is not the most accurate. Although several sources describe it as is displayed so there are even certified. But the Coat of Arms most correct is where the castles appear in the 1 and 4th quarters. That coat of arms is displayed in the header of this website also is used as background. This is the same coat of arms carved in stone in the Church of Santa Catalina of Monroy in Spain.

Can a visitor unfamiliar with heraldry be surprised to rediscovered more than 60 coats of the Sanchez, over 270 of the Sanchez compounds, even more of the Gonzalez and more than 400 coats of compound surnames Garcia and yet not find the coat of 'their' family.

It is VERY important to differentiate between what the coat of arms of a lineage and surname. Most of us, we are neither noble nor gentlemen and we can not use a coat of arms by the fact that it bears our name, because each coat belongs to a single lineage, ie a branch of a family surname. If we are not direct descendant of that family line, we have not the right to use arms (the arms) which was granted to that family.

For the same reason, there are names of the lineage is not known to anyone who has been attributed a coat of arms, that is, is another misconception that all surnames have a pedigree with coat of arms.

Only one family research can confirm that their origin and lineage shield really correspond to you. The cost of this research for obvious reasons is not available to anyone, because, for begginers, they should ask all your family genealogical data, research in parishes, records, deeds, etc. to determine the origin of your family and check in the goverment or church administrations, by country, documented the existence of the relationship of nobility or chivalry.