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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: 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
Antichissima ed assai illustre famiglia portoghese, ramo di uno dei più nobili casati del Portogallo, ovvero quello dei Souza o Sousa, propagatasi, nel corso dei secoli, in diverse regioni europee ed extra europee, con una concentrazione maggiore nelle Americhe. Entrambe le famiglia, in ogni modo, vantano come capostipite quel D. Gomes Echigues, cavaliere fiorente al principio del secolo decimo primo. Costui era anche governatore di una terra sita tra i fiumi Duero e Miño e signore di Felgueiras e di Pombeiro. Suo discendente fu un certo D. Egas Gomes de Souza, il quale acquisì tale cognominizzazione in virtù dell'omonima terra, da lui acquistata. I suoi figli, di ambo i sessi, portarono sempre tal nome; la famiglia, però, si divise in moltissimi rami, tra i quali, come detto, vi è il casato dei Tude De Souza. Le prime notizie relative ad esso, si rinvengono già nel XIV secolo. Al dir di ...
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
