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: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili - Cavalieri
Nobles in:Italia
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
Antica ed assai nobile famiglia portoghese, di chiara ed avita virtù, propagatasi, nel corso dei secoli, in diverse regioni d'Italia. L'origine di tal cognominizzazione, al dir di autorevoli genealogisti, andrebbe ricercata in un soprannome basato sul diminutivo del vocabolo "peixe". La tradizione vuole che capostipite della famiglia sia quel D. Gomes Viegas de Portocarreiro ( - 1258 ), cavaliere, soprannominato, appunto "Peixoto" il quale fu un sostenitore di D. Alfonso III , alla cui corte appare tra il 1251 ed il 1252, in qualità di consigliere. Figlio di D. Egas Portocarreiro Henriques e D. Teresa Gonçalves de Curveira, fratello di D. João Viegas di Portocarreiro, arcivescovo di Braga, avrebbe ricevuto in feudo da D. Alfonso III alcune terre e si sarebbe stabilito per primo in Monte Longo, distretto di Braga, e poi nella parrocchia di Serzedelo a Guimaraes, sempre in Braga, ove avrebbe fatto erigere il maniero di Peixoto, ...
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
