Zetina Family Crest

May 11, 2008 by El Heraldo

Good morning, I have received Lucía’s mail requesting information on the last name Rodal, unfortunately I didn’t find information in the sources that I have, so I did research it on Internet, at http://www.ceih.com/ciudad/base.html, they mention to have information this last name, but they won’t show it until you make the purchase.

Also, I looked for information at “enfemenino.com” http://apellido.enfemenino.com/w/apellidos/apellido-gal-ndez.html

On this page, among other things you will find how common a last name is in Spain, in the case of RODAL, they don’t have information. They suggest that no less than 300 people may have this last name, that is why they do not have records on this last name.

This is seems to be a not very common last name, so what I recommend in situations like this is to begin the tradition of a family shield, as the case of Mr. Derewonko, French of Polish origin who gave me information of his ancestors and based on that I designed a shield for him.

Now, here is the family crest of the day:

It can be written Zetina or Cetina indistinctly, it originated in Aragón, of the village of same name, from the judicial party of Ateca (Zaragoza), place of which different branches of this house generated. This lineage is so old that in the year 1177 the knights of this last name participated in the conquest of the city of Cuenca. The King Don Alfonso VIII de Castillae made them part of numerous estates in the region, from there the number of ancestral houses that settled down in this county. There were also important states in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid y Sevilla..
In this last city, the celebrated poet Gutierre de Cetina was born.

Its Arms: In field of azure, a band of gold, accompanied in the high of five stars of the same metal, arranged in sotuer and in the low thing a flower of lily of gold.

Translated by EJ Jr.