Beard Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Beard Name Origin



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Origin of the Name Beard



The Beard family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. Meaning 'the bearded one', Beard is a surname of nickname origin. Variants of this name include Bearde, Berd and Beards. 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 these countries. Examples of such are a Susan Beard who was granted a marriage license, in London, in the year 1622. An Edward Bearde, grocer, was buried in Saint Michael, Cornhill, in the year 1645. Names were recorded in these ancient documents to make it easier for their overlords to collect taxes and to keep records of the population at any given time. When the overlords acquired lands by either force or gifts from their rulers, they created charters of ownership for themselves and their vassals. From England the name spread to Scotland and over the centuries became well established there.
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.
The Beard 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 Beard descendants.
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