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This is a copy of the "Quenneville Crest" found in "Illustrations to the Armorial General V & VI.
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This copy of the Quenneville Crest was found in "Dictionnaire et Armorial des noms de Famille de France". "Quenneville - Normandy, Quenne: chene: villa des chénes,- Ile-de- France. Quenneville, un anob, 18 e.s.; une fasce, deux molettes et une canette posée sur une terrasse."
The following is an explanation of the various parts of the crest as found in the "Dictionnaire et Armorial des noms de Famille de France":
Fasce - La face représente l'écharpe portée à la guerre autour du corps, en anaiére de ceinture.
The fasce represents the scarf carried at war around the body in the manner of a belt at the waist.
Molette - L'étoile ou la molette désignait peut-étre,jadis, un cadet, comme en Angleterre, mais c'est surtout un astre, un signe d'appartenance céleste, et la molette impique l'idée de chevalerie (ne pas s'y fier trop); souvent, les étoiles ou molettes jouent un simple rôle de garniture, simple et facile `a dessiner.... En principe d'or ou d'argent, mais
The star or the spur was designating perhaps long ago, a younger, as in England, but that especially a star, a sign of appurtenance celeste, the spur implies the idea of chevalierie, often the stars or spurs play a simple role of garnishings, simple and easy to draw. In principle of gold or of silver.
Canette - C'est l'oiseau par excellence, mais il y a aussi toutes les espèces d'oiseaux: perdrix, grues, hérons, etc.
That is the bird by excellence, but there are also the species of birds : partridge, cranes,heron, etc.
I received both of these crests from my cousin Jean-Guy Quenneville. I was able to locate the "Dictionnaire et Armorial des noms de Famille de France" at the State Library in Melbourne to find out more information, unfortunately I can not locate a copy of the "Illustrations to the Armorial General V & VI, which shows the original crest from 1338. The crest in the "Dictionnaire et Armorial des noms de Famille de France" is the original crest as modified and registered for Nicolas Quenneville in Paris France (date not known).
I hope my efforts on translating from the French will not offend anyone. Its a word by word search in my dictionary to work some of this out.
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