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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
Most ancient is the family of the Britos, whose surname was taken from Brito, between the rio Ave and the portela dos Leitões. Certain authors make D. Hero, a great lord who lived before the Conde D. Henrique, and his wife, the Condessa Adozinda, daughter of Afonso, Romães, the stock of the lineage, they being the parents of D. Gosindo Hoeris. By 1033 of the Christian era there lived Aires de B., who in that year bestowed all the estates he possessed in Oliveira, Carrazedo, Subilhães and honra de Santa Maria upon the prior and clerics of the monastery which he had founded in the julgado de Vermoim, in Oliveira, beside the rio Ave. A daughter of his was joined in marriage to D. Soeiro de Brito, rico homem of Rei D. Afonso VI de Leão, who restored the monastery of Oliveira, founded by his father in law, and confirmed unto it the donations of the latter, adding others thereto. From these descended the lineage of the Britos. Filipe de B. de Nicote (Nicot em França), nobleman of the Casa ...
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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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