{"id":4705,"date":"2024-11-26T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gassin.eu\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:31:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:31:59","slug":"from-azure-to-a-castled-keep-the-coat-of-arms-of-gassin-a-medieval-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gassin.eu\/en\/from-azure-to-a-castled-keep-the-coat-of-arms-of-gassin-a-medieval-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"“From Azur to a donjon castle…” the Gassin coat of arms, the medieval heritage of the Gassin coat of arms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Gassin coat of arms<\/h2>\n\n

Gassin town hall proudly displays its coat of arms.<\/p>\n\n

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Gassin town hall logo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

It has its origins in the village’s distant medieval past, when Gassin was co-lord and principal lord of the de Castellane family.<\/p>\n\n

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Louis de Bresc, Armorial des communes de Provence, ou Dictionnaire g\u00e9ographique et h\u00e9raldique des villes et villages des Bouches-du-Rh\u00f4ne, du Var, des Basses-Alpes, de Vaucluse et des Alpes-Maritimes, Paris, Bachelin-Deflorenne, 1866.<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

The local community of Gassin appropriated the lord’s coat of arms and adapted it, incorporating his colors, yellow and blue.<\/p>\n\n

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Armorial g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de France, dress\u00e9, en vertu de l’\u00e9dit de 1696, par Charles d’Hozier, Provence, I, (source: Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France<\/a>).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

The coat of arms is described as follows:<\/p>\n\n

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“Azure, a three-towered castle masoned sable”.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

The community of Gassin, then the commune, also took over its motto from the de Castellane family, one of the oldest families in Provence:<\/p>\n\n

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“May d’honour que d’honours<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

It translates into French as: “better honor than honors”.<\/p>\n\n

The ins and outs<\/h3>\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n

Personal crests<\/h2>\n\n

Some inhabitants had their own coat of arms. This was the case for several members of the Germondy family, whose ranks included royal notaries. <\/p>\n\n

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Coat of arms of Jean Germondy, notary of Gassin<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Coat of arms of Fran\u00e7ois Roux, bourgeois of Gassin<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Coat of arms of Michel Tornel, merchant in Gassin<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Coat of arms of Louis Germondy, bourgeois of Gassin<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Coat of arms of Nicolas Gras, bourgeois of Gassin<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Honor\u00e9 Germondy de Pierre, bourgeois of Gassin<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

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Coat of arms of Pierre Germondy, burgher of Gassin (mistakenly spelled Grassin)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Castellane family coat of arms<\/h2>\n\n
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” Recueil d’extraits de Tiltres scellez, pour servir \u00e0 l’Armorial de l’ancienne noblesse, aux g\u00e9n\u00e9alogies et \u00e0 l’histoire<\/a> “, Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France, I, pages 1 to 45: Armorial de Provence.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Armoriaux de Provence et de Danemark<\/a>, 17th century, 41 leaves.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Interpretations…<\/h2>\n\n

Throughout history, various visual representations have been used to depict the Gassin coat of arms.<\/p>\n\n

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The old coat of arms used by the commune of Gassin<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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The coat-of-arms used on the Armoirial de France<\/a> website.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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The coat of arms interpreted by Celbusro<\/a> for Wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Coat of arms formerly used on Gassin town hall envelopes.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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A naive interpretation of the Gassin coat of arms by Cotignac\u00e9 native Gabriel Henri Blanc.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Find out all about Gassin’s coat of arms from the Middle Ages to the present day, with numerous visual examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56,57,100,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-histoire-en","category-non-classifiee-en","category-paint","category-patrimoine-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gassin.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gassin.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gassin.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gassin.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gassin.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gassin.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7130,"href":"https:\/\/gassin.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions\/7130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gassin.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gassin.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gassin.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gassin.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}