Mosset
MOSSET
Département : Pyrénées-Orientales
| French | D'or à quatre pals de gueules, au chat hérissé de sable, allumé d'argent, tenant une fusée spatiale au naturel dans sa bouche. |
| English | blazon wanted |
Origin/meaning
The cat holding a rocket is taken from the arms of the Catalan family Mos(s)et from the area around Girona. The cat is a canting element, moix being cat in Catalan. The background from the rocket is not clear. The family arms showed a cat holding a 'rocket', but the existing images are not very clear on the exact type. It is described in a document from 1753 as a gold rocket (cohete) with red flames. Cohete means rocket as a type of fireworks (fusée in French) but somehow in the mid 20th century the word was interpreted as a space rocket and thus the arms now show a cat holding a space rocket. (both cohete and fusée can mean a firework-rocket and a space rocket).
 The arms in 1753 |
 The blazon in 1753 |
It is, however, not clear whether the family had anything to do with the village though...
The pales are taken from the arms of Catalonia, as the area historically is part of Catalonia.
Literature: Image from http://www.armorialdefrance.fr
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