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: Portugûes
Nobility: Senhores - Família Nobre
Nobles in:Portugal (Portugal)
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
Heraldic dossiers :
Casco
Portugûes
O Primeiro que se conhece deste apelido é Gonçalo C., que viveu no reinado de D. Fernando I e seguiu as partes do Mestre de Avis. Era primo de Martim Vasques, de Gil Lourenço e de Gil Fernandes, o Bom, que defendeu Elvas, Morou na cidade de Évora, de onde se julga fosse natural, e na mesma admimistrou o morgado de S. Miguel de Machede, instituído por seu tio Gil Rodrigues de Vasconcelos. Recebeu-se com Leonor Gonçalves, como se verifica duma sentença do cabido acerca do referido morgado, a qual alguns autores supõem ser filha dum indivíduo da família Sousa de Alvim e que os descendentes dizem que o era de Álvaro Gonçalves de Moura. Deste casamento nasceram, entre outros, João Casco e Martim Casco, que deixaram geração do mesmo apelido. A família parece originária da Astúrias, pois lá existe o mesmo apelido, porém com armas diversas, que alguns autores dizem ter sido também usadas em Portugal. Timbre: um leão de púrpura com o casco do escudo na cabeça. ...
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
