How to find a coat of arms. I am looking for the Rajotte Coat of arms.?

Question

I am looking for the Rajotte Coat of arms. How would I find it and know that it is legit?

Answer 1

Do a web search. There is know way of knowing if it's legit however. Good luck and God Bless. Try here

http://www.historicalnames.com/namelistd...

Answer 2

The point is, if it is "legit" and belongs to a family with the same name as you, unless you can categorically prove that you are related to that family, you are not allowed legally to use or display it, because it is not your coat of arms.

I guess that Rajotte is a French name, here is the current legal position with French coats of arms :-

The legal status of coats of arms is not to be found in the Civil Code or in laws, but in the jurisprudence of French courts since 1870.

Coats of arms are unregulated by the French authorities: anyone is free to assume arms, and there is no mechanism by which arms can be officially granted or registered. However, coats of arms are considered part of the family name, and enjoy the same legal protection against usurpation.

The patronymic name and the coat of arms represent for the family which owns them a true form of property which no one has the right to usurp under pain of damages and interest. (Civil court of Marseille, June 1, 1888).

Coats of arms are essentially different from titles of nobility because they are simply marks of cognizance, supplementary to the family name to which they are indissolubly linked, whether the family is noble or not. It follows that arms are the attribute of the whole family and enjoy the same protection as the name itself, and that judicial courts which are able to adjudicate disputes over family names are also able to examine contests which can arise over coats of arms. (Paris Appeals Court, Dec 20, 1949)

Civil courts, in particular, will protect a coat of arms from usurpation by a commercial enterprise and award damages.



http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/f...

Answer 3

These guys will give you one:

http://www.4crests.com/rajotte-family-cr...

Answer 4

What you see might be a legitimate coat of arms and might not.  However, even if it is a legitimate coat of arms that does not mean it belongs to everyone with the surname Rajotte.

Coats of arms were and are granted to individuals and are passed down through the legitimate male line of descent.  There actually might have been, for instance, 15 different men named Rajotte, not all necessrily related,  each granted their own coat of arms, all different.  The peddlers that sell them on the internet, at airports, in magazines, at shopping mails or solicit by mail won't have all 15, no way. They just want to sell you something.  The only time they will have more than one is if more than one person with the same surname from different national origins were granted a coat of arms and in that case they will have one of each when in fact there might be several of each.

Tebs is very well informed.  He was giving you an answer based on the fact that you wanted to find "the Rajotte Coat of Arms."and how for you to know it was legit, not that you just wanted to copy one with Rajotte underneath it whether you knew it belonged to you or anyone to whom you are related.

You are assuming everyone with your surname are related or shares ancestors and that might not be the case.

If the name is Italian it probably wasn't spelled that way originally.  The letter "jo" were probably a "gio" or a "gia."  However, it appears, the name is French.

See the links below,  one from the British College of ARms(they grant coats of arms) and one from the most prestigious genealogical organization in the U.S., The National Genealogical Society

http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.ht...

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...