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Peixoto

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This family comes from the dos Protocarreiros, because D. Egas Henriques de Portocarreiro, who was in the conquest of Seville and was married to D. Teresa Gonçalves de Curveira, had several children and among them one called Gomes Viegas de Portocarreiro, who had the nickname of Peixoto, say that for taking a sea trout to the count of Bologna later King D. Afonso III, which a cormorant had dropped inside the castle of Celorico da Beira, when he was besieged by that prince, because he remained faithful to the King D. Sancho II, his brother. It is said that this Gomes Viegas de Portocarreiro was first called Peixão and then Peixoto, which all means the same: small fish. It was Gomes Viega rich-man of D. Sancho II and his ambassador to France, he was in the council of Leão convened by Pope Innocent IV, he deserved great support from D. Afonso II; which gave him and honors from Pardelhas, near Guimarães, and other lands had the landlord of Calçada, in Santo Estêvão de Oldrões, in the municipality of Penafiel de Sousa, who was the family manor. He was married to D. Maria Rodrigues, daughter of Rui Gonçalves Pereira and D. Urraca Viegas and paternal granddaughter of D. Gonçalo Rodrigues da Palmeira, whose marriage comes from those of Peixoto's surname.

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