Cross Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Cross Name Origin
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Cross Family Crest
Origin of the Name Cross
The ancient history of the name Cross was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. Cross is a locality name meaning 'at the cross', from a residence at or near a wayside crucifix. In English records the name appears as ad Crucem and atte Cross. This name is of Anglo-Saxon descent spreading to the Celtic countries of Ireland , Scotland and Wales in early times and is found in many mediaeval manuscripts throughout the above islands. Examples of such are a John atte Cross, who was recorded in the 'Writs of Parliament', England , in the year 1302. Jordan ad Crucem, County Buckinghamshire, Humfrey de Cruce, County Oxfordshire, and Conan ad Crucem, County Lincolnshire, were all recorded in the 'Hundred Rolls' in the year 1273.
In Ireland this name and its variants were introduced into Ulster Province by settlers who arrived from England and Scotland , especially during the seventeenth century. It was the 'Plantations of Ireland ' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that marked the end of Gaelic supremacy in Ireland . While the influx of settlers in the wake of the earlier Anglo-Norman invasion of the twelfth century resulted in a full integration into Irish society of the new arrivals, the same never occurred with the Ulster Planters who maintained their own distinct identity.
Cross is sometimes a variant of MacCrossan, taken from the Gaelic Mac An Chrosain septs. The town of Ballymacrossan is located in Offaly.
The Cross coat of arms came into existence centuries ago. The process of creating coats of arms (also often called family crests) began in the eleventh century although a form of Proto-Heraldry may have existed in some countries prior to this. The new art of Heraldry made it possible for families and even individual family members to have their very own coat of arms, including all Cross descendants.
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| This Months 'Meaning of Symbols' on Family Crests: COLORS | |||||
OR (Gold) = Generosity |
Argent (Silver/White) = Sincerity, Peace |
Gules (Red) = Warrior, Martyr, Military Strength |
Azure (Blue) = Strength, Loyalty |
Vert (Green) = Hope, loyalty in love |
Sable (Black) = Constancy, Grief |
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