Autrey Crests and Coats of Arms

THERE IS NO HISTORICAL EVIDENCE TO PROVE CONNECTION TO ANY AMERICAN AUTREY LINE AND A COAT OF ARMS OR CREST.

BEFORE YOU LOOK FOR THAT COAT OF ARMS TO HANG ON YOUR WALL, PLEASE READ THIS.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms “So far as heraldic purists in Scotland are concerned, there is no such thing as a family crest. Rather, a crest is part of a coat of arms or a heraldic achievement and these were and are granted in their entirety to an individual for use by him during his lifetime and thereafter to his oldest son and so on after the death of the oldest son (depending on the wording of the grant of arms). Other descendants of the original grantee may bear the arms with appropriate distinguishing marks (see Cadency), but that doesn't make it a family coat of arms; the crest itself normally is not altered, but that doesn't make it a family crest.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crest_%28heraldry%29 “There is a widespread misconception that a crest and a coat of arms belong to everyone with the same family name or several people descended from the same matriculator; this is due in part to Victorian stationers' marketing of engraved letterheads and in part to pretensions; this constitutes usurpation.”

"Az. A fesse fusily Ar." Translation: in cheif a label of five points or." Description: Blue at the bottom of the shield with silver cross lines, at the top, a label of five points gold. This particular crest is from Burke's General Armory. According to Burke's General Armory, the Autry name is French and means "Son of Aldric". Several spelling changes are acknowledged. The book implies that this information comes from the "New Dictionary of American Family Names" by Elsdon C. Smith.

The color photograph was submitted by Marshall Autry .

Autry Coat of Arms
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Artists rendition of an Autrey crest.
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Created from a description given to an artist - source of this picture is unknown.

Other Coats and Crests Descriptions

Autré en Champagne. De gueles à la fasce de cinq fusées d'argent.
Champagnet Autré. Red with a fasce of five white spindles.

Autré. D'azur au lion rampant d'or, tenant entre ses dents un sabre ~a lame de gueles at poignée d'argent.
Autré. Blue, with a crawling linon holind in its mouth a red metallic sword with a white handle.

Autreberg. De gueules à l'aigle d'argent.
Red, with white eagles.

Autremont en Champagne. D'or au lion de sable, au lambel de trois pendants de gueules.
Champagne Autremont. Yellow, with a black lion, with three lambels hanging from his mouth.

Autret en Bretagne. D'orà cinq burèles d'azur.
Autret in Brittany. Yellow, with five blue bureles showers.

Autreville. D'argent à quatre ondes ou trangles ondèes d'azur.
Autret in Brittany. White, with four waves or blue trange flowers.

Autreville. D'argentà l'aigle de sable membrée et becquée de gueules.
Autreville. White, with a black eagle with red legs and beak.

Autre de Barrois. De gueules au sautoir d'or.
Autri de Barrois. Red with a yellow St. Andrew's cross.

Autri. D'azur à une fasce d'argent, accompagnée en chef de trois erlettes d'or, et en pointe d'une molette d'éperon de même.
Autri. Blue, with a fasce of white, with three gold blackbirds at the top, and at the point, a serrated spur of the same type.

Autri Brien. D'argent à trois losanges de gueules posées en bande.
Autri Brien. White with three red diamonds in a band.

Autric en Provence. De gueules àcinq éperviers d'or, posés 2, 2 et 1, longés de sable et grilletés d'or.
Autric in Provence. Red with five yellow sparrowhawks, posed as 2, 2 and 1, black longes and yellow grilletes.

Autriche (duché) De gueules à une fasce d'argent.
Austria (duchy). Red, with a white fasce.

Autruy. D'or à une molette de sable en franc-quartier, au chef de gueules.
Autruy. Yellow, with a black serrated roller in the French quarter, with red top.

Autruy. D'argent trois losanges de gueules mis en bande.
Autruy. White with three red diamonds in a band.