Coat is particularly distinctive old aristocratic family, Seal / Ring-marked family. An engraved sign on the door of the tower which bears representations of animals, plants, abstract shapes or other objects.


  The original Greek families with coats of arms are usually palaiovyzantinous stately homes (eg Komninoi, Paleologos, head Chrysolorades, Agallianos etc). During the Frankish or Latin occupation (1204-1566), where Greece was divided into principalities, duchies and baronies many Greeks maintained their feudal land, serfs and their titles and received by the Frankish conquerors knights.

  The same happened during the Venetian Crete and the Ionian Islands, where it existed and sayings «Libro D 'Oro», lists at the Venetian standards ie aristocratic families. Together with the local Greeks lords, we often see Italian noble families, such as their names fragkolevantinous our people (eg Alimprantis, Zinovios, Caruso, Dellaporta, etc.) installed in these islands, as wealthy families went on aristocratic classes because of mainly financial services offered by the conquerors and the Treasury. So, in 1542 created the Golden Book of the island in 1593 and the new Golden Book of Kefalonia and Corfu.

  Usually bear the coats of arms symbols and colors that characterize the history and achievements of each house. It can be simple, these include the talking openly or coats (eg Klada house, bring a twig, House Kefalas, shows a head man, House Kalogeras, depicting a monk, the House Solomou, fish, salmon etc) or more complex . The colors are also important (eg red, manifest bloodshed and consequently bravery in battle, blue, manifest chastity and morality etc.) as well as the crowns on the upper part that the projections indicate the degree of nobility (Baron five lugs, headed eagle, Byzantine emperor etc.)