Egea Family Crest

Nov 30, 2009 by Armida

Egea. The origin of the name home of Egea has its first ground in the kingdom of Aragon, in Egea de los Caballeros, with immemorial quality, whose illustrious lineage have emanated generous trunk, now preserved in these realms that splendor inherited from their elders, by using primitive arms: a shield, the field of gold, and surrounded him three blue bars of a red border with eight gold blades. The symbolic meanings can be inferred from the other coats. The blades won Iñigo de Egea. It should be noted that before the Aegean Knights used the arms of the town of Egea, that contained an armed man on horseback, and in his hand a spear with a straw-colored flag, crossing a red band edged with this motto: Stamp of the Aegean village. Accompanied some of this lineage to King Don Alfonso the Wise in the conquest of the kingdom of Murcia and in the conquest of Lorca were inherited as conquerors and settlers Juan Egea and Pedro Lopez Egea, whose illustrious family has produced very famous personages.

Nobiliario de los Reinos y Señoríos de España
By D. Francisco Piferrer
Volume III, page 153, Num. 1320
Madrid, 1857.