Florit (surname)

"Florit" is a surname that originates in Languedoc (France). In the early 15th century, some of the cavaliers from Languedoc moved to Aragon and settled in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.

Heraldry

A Coat of Arms is not the property of a whole surname, but only belongs to a specific family ennobled by the monarch. No one else, not even collateral relatives, are legally allowed to use it. However, non-ennobled people (from Minorca) can use it privately if it is modified to omit certain details reserved for the noble family, i.e., the shape of the heraldic shield, the helmet and its accessories. Also, the silver swan on the blue field can be moved inside a seal, a circle, an oval, a rectangle, a square, etc.

Coat of Arms

Spanish: "Trae de azur y cisne de plata, linguado de gules, picado y membrado de oro. Jefe de oro, y yelmo de sable. Timbre de caballero: yelmo de acero terciado, adornado con rejillas y bordura de oro y forrado de gules. En su cirnera, penacho de plumas. Pendientes de la parte superior del yelmo y rodeado éste y la mitad alta del escudo, lambrequines que, como las plumas, son de los colores y metales del blasón, es decir: oro y plata, azur y sable."

The surname Florit in Minorca

The Florit surname can be found in the Island of Minorca as early as the end of the 16th century in the first books conserved in the Diocesan Archive of Minorca.

External links

* [https://idapadron.ine.es/fapel/FAPEL.INICIO Territorial Distribution of surnames in the Kingdom of Spain, according to Spanish National Institute of Statistics ("Instituto Nacional de Estadística")] - Spanish