When you buy a heraldic document a new accurate analysis of the heraldic research will be performed by an expert heraldist and the document will be written in Italian or English.
The coat of arms will be checked and, if necessary, redesigned in strict compliance with the heraldic rules by our experts.
Language of the text: Portugûes
Nobility: Senhores - Família Nobre
Nobles in:Portugal (Portugal)
The country or region of the dossier mainly refers to the places where the family was ascribed to the nobility and may be different from those of residence
Heraldic dossiers :
Cortês
Portugûes
Há em Portugal diversas famílias deste apelido, umas procedentes de Espanha, outras naturais do próprio país. Destas, nem todas tomaram o apelido igualmente, pois algumas tiraram-no de alcunha, enquanto outras o tomaram de localida-des, como vila C.. Na região de Miranda do Corvo, à Lausã, existe uma família C., a que pertenceu Manuel Lopes Caetano C. Serra, capitão-mor da vilas da Lousã e Serpins e do couto de Semide, o qual teve Carta de brasão de armas, passada a 14-XII-1771, em que se lhe concederam por sucessão as armas dos Limas, Serras, Gonçalves e Corteses, estas como a seguir se descreve: De prata, com uma cruz florenciada de vermelho, rodeada de chamas de azul. Alguns autores atribuem as armas de Fernão C., conquistador do México, aos Corteses de Portugal, o que é erro, pois estes são anteriores ao herói espanhol. ...
When you buy a heraldic document a new accurate analysis of the heraldic research will be performed by an expert heraldist and the document will be written in Italian or English.
The coat of arms will be checked and, if necessary, redesigned in strict compliance with the heraldic rules by our experts.
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Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families
