The local community of Gassin appropriated the lord’s coat of arms and adapted it, incorporating his colors, yellow and blue.
Armorial général de France, dressé, en vertu de l’édit de 1696, par Charles d’Hozier, Provence, I, (source: Bibliothèque nationale de France).
The coat of arms is described as follows:
“Azure, a three-towered castle masoned sable”.
The community of Gassin, then the commune, also took over its motto from the de Castellane family, one of the oldest families in Provence:
“May d’honour que d’honours
It translates into French as: “better honor than honors”.
The ins and outs
The commune’s historic coat of arms has no tenants. Sometimes, by mistake, the tenants of the de Castellane family, two savages, are used. Laurel branches are used to decorate the town hall’s coat of arms.
A crown also adorns the municipal coat of arms. It is based on the municipal crown created by L. de Bresc to replace the count’s crown.
Personal crests
Some inhabitants had their own coat of arms. This was the case for several members of the Germondy family, whose ranks included royal notaries.
Coat of arms of Jean Germondy, notary of GassinCoat of arms of François Roux, bourgeois of GassinCoat of arms of Michel Tornel, merchant in GassinCoat of arms of Louis Germondy, bourgeois of GassinCoat of arms of Nicolas Gras, bourgeois of GassinHonoré Germondy de Pierre, bourgeois of GassinCoat of arms of Pierre Germondy, burgher of Gassin (mistakenly spelled Grassin)
Throughout history, various visual representations have been used to depict the Gassin coat of arms.
The old coat of arms used by the commune of GassinThe coat-of-arms used on the Armoirial de France website.The coat of arms interpreted by Celbusro for WikipediaCoat of arms formerly used on Gassin town hall envelopes.A naive interpretation of the Gassin coat of arms by Cotignacé native Gabriel Henri Blanc.
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