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Language of the text: Portugûes
Nobility: Senhores - Família Nobre
Nobles in:Portugal - Espanha - Brazil
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Variations Last name: Briteiro,Brito
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
Antichissima è la famiglia dei Britos, il cui appellativo trasse origine da Brito, tra il rio Ave e la portela dos Leitões, e della quale alcuni autori pongono a capostipite della linhagem D. Hero, grande signore vissuto prima del Conde D. Henrique, e sua moglie la Condessa Adozinda, figlia di Afonso, Romães, genitori di D. Gosindo Hoeris. Nell’anno 1033 dell’era cristiana viveva Aires de B., il quale in quell’anno donò tutte le eredità che possedeva in Oliveira, Carrazedo, Subilhães e honra de Santa Maria al priore e ai chierici del monastero da lui fondato nel julgado de Vermoim, in Oliveira, presso il rio Ave. Una sua figlia si unì in matrimonio con D. Soeiro de Brito, rico homem del Rei D. Afonso VI de Leão, il quale restaurò il monastero di Oliveira, fondato dal suocero, e confermò le donazioni da questi fatte, accrescendole con altre liberalità. Da costoro discese la linhagem dei Britos. Filipe de B. de Nicote, Nicot in França, fidalgo della Casa de D. Filipe II e cavaliere della Ordem de Cristo, servì in Índia nella conquista dei ...
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BlazonBritos
Variations Last name: Briteiro,Brito
1. Crest of family: Brito, Briteiro, Britos
Language of the text: Portugûes
De vermelho, com nove lisonjas de prata, apontadas e firmadas nos bordos do escudo, postas 3, 3, e 3, cada lisonja carregada de um leão de púrpura. Tin1bre: um leão do escudo.
Brasão da família Brito, Briteiro ou Britos, fontes bibliográficas: "Indice heraldico, e appendice relativo ao Brazil" di Augusto Romano Sanches de Baena e Farinha de Almeida Sanches de Baena (Visconde de). "Armorial Lusitano" Anuário da Nobreza de Portugal. "Armorial Português" Santos Ferreira, Guilherme Luiz dos, 1849-1931.
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