Florit


Florit is a surname that originates in Languedoc. 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 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 Menorca

Surname Florit is found on the island of Menorca in the first books that are kept in the Menorcan Diocesan Archive dating from the second half of the sixteenth century.
It is known that Ottoman pirates destroyed all the files in Ciutadella in 1558, as they did in Mahon some years earlier, in 1535. Due to the invasion of Mahon for Khair ed-Din Barbarossa in 1535 and the destruction of Ciutadella on 10 July 1558, the Books of Baptisms of all the Menorca starting in 1565 –in 1566 in Ciutadella, and in 1570 in Ferreries–, and Books of Marriage in 1577, so it cannot be formed any genealogy in Menorca before these years.

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