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Language of the text: Portugûes
Nobility: Senhores - Cavalleiros - Barões
Nobles in:Portugal - Brazil
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Galvao (Brazil). The family of this appellido comes from Portugal, and not from England as some have said; its establishment was in the province of Alemtejo. The appellido was nickname, where the hawk was called galvão. His manhood ended many years ago. Galvão (Portugal). Nothing is known for certain about the origin of this family, but only that in the reign of D. Afonso Henriques, lived Pedro G., a nobleman, who had a large house in Guimarães, where he lived in the years 1170. He died on 12- VIII-1179, buried in the monastery of Santa Marinha da Costa, in front of the altar of the Chapter, where D. Maria Pais, his wife, was also buried. They left to the said monastery some land with some of the more expensive household implements and a certain amount of money to decorate the church, imposing the obligation of the canons of the monastery ...
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BlazonGalvão
1. Coat of arms of family: Galvão
Language of the text: Portugûes
Escudo partido em pala; na primeira em campo de prata um gavião negro aberto armado de azul, com um crescente de oiro no peito; na segunda em campo vermelho seis costas de prata firmadas, e postas em pala; timbre um gavião como o do escudo nascente, com uma costa de prata no bico.
Brasão da família Galvão no Brazil. As suas armas são uma alliança de Galvão com Costas. Fonte bibliográfica "Indice heraldico, e appendice relativo ao Brazil" Augusto Romano Sanches de Baena e Farinha de Almeida Sanches de Baena (Visconde de).
Partido: o primeiro de prata, com uma águia estendida de negro, carregada de um crescente de ouro sobre o peito; o segundo de vermelho com seis costas de prata, postos 2, 2, e 2, firmadas nos flancos.
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