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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
Très ancienne est la famille des Britos, dont l’appellation procède de Brito, entre le rio Ave et la portela dos Leitões. Plusieurs auteurs donnent pour tronc de la linhagem D. Hero, grand seigneur qui vécut avant le Conde D. Henrique, et son épouse la Condessa Adozinda, fille de Afonso, Romães, parents de D. Gosindo Hoeris. Vers 1033 de l’ère chrétienne vivait Aires de B., lequel, en cette année, donna toutes les herdades qu’il possédait en Oliveira, Carrazedo, Subilhães et honra de Santa Maria au prieur et aux clercs du monastère qu’il avait fondé dans le julgado de Vermoim, en Oliveira, auprès du rio Ave. L’une de ses filles fut reçue en mariage par D. Soeiro de Brito, rico homem du Rei D. Afonso VI de Leão, lequel restaura le monastère de Oliveira, fondé par son beau père, et confirma les donations de celui ci, en y ajoutant d’autres libéralités. De ceux là procéda la linhagem des Britos. Filipe de B. de Nicote, Nicot en France, fidalgo da Casa de D. Filipe II et chevalier de l’Ordem de Cristo, servit dans ...
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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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