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The Gura Coat of Arms

This historiography was prepared individually for the Gura surname on 4 April 1974 at the request of James A. Gura.

The coat of arms shown above was drawn by a heraldic artist based on information about the Gura surname and its association with heraldry. In the language of the ancient heralds, the arms are described as:

Quartered: 1st, or; the letter 'G' sa.; 2nd and 3rd, gu.; a sun in splendour or.; 4th, or.; a border sa. charged with a small inner shield purp.

A sun symbolises glory, splendour and high authority. Seven vivid colours were chosen for use on the shields of armour-clad knights so they could be identified at a distance — gold, silver, purple, blue, green, black and red. On colourless drawings these were preserved using dot-and-line symbols. The Gura coat of arms incorporates purple, the colour of nobility and distinction.

Available information indicates that in 1972 there were fewer than 255 households in the United States with the old and distinguished Gura name — in comparison, some family names represent over 400,000 households.

This report does not represent individual lineage of the Gura family tree and no genealogical representation is intended or implied. Information taken from a Halberts surname registry, © 1973.