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Amaral

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Those of this surname are of high lineage, as they descend from King D. Ramiro II, of Leão, of whom he was the fourth grandson D. Hermígio Pais de Matos, lord of the farms of Matos, Cardoso and Amaral, who by their death remained each of her children, the last one belonging to D. Afonso Henriques do A., who took her nickname from her. This farm, the family manor, is located in Viseu. D. Afondo Henriques lived in the reign of D. Sancho II, put himself in possession of the souto de Lourosa, at the end of Vila do Sul, as proved in the inquiries ordered by D. Afonso III. From his wife, whose name is unknown, he left generation, who continued this nickname. Pedro Rodrigues do Amaral, to whom the Emperor of Constantinople, André Peleólogo, made knight with many privileges and count palatine, was apostolic protonotary and administrator of S. Pedro das Águias, and from the same sovereign he received mercy of new weapons. The Emperor granted them on 31-V-1491, Pope Alexander VI confirmed them on 28-XI-1494 and King D. Manuel I on 30-VIII-1503. The Amarais de Touriz, a place in the parish of the village of Midões, to which Friar André do Amaral belonged, of the council of D. Manuel I, chancellor and ambassador of the Order of Malta, commander of Vera Cruz, etc., used other weapons , who came to them by their ascendant Domingos Joanes, from Oliveira do Hospital, which, since he was not of the Amarais lineage, are thus classified in the Portuguese Armory, by the scholar Anselmo Braamcamp Freire.

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