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Language of the text: English
Nobility: Nobles
Nobles in:Italy (Sicily)
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Variations Last name: Contrera,Incontrera,Incontreras
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
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Contreras
Variations Last name: Contrera,Incontrera,Incontreras
Antica e nobile famiglia spagnola, di chiara e ancestrale virtù, che si è diffusa in tutto il mondo, nel corso dei secoli. La chiara nobiltà di questa Casa è confermata anche dalla sua presenza nella pregevole opera "Il Dizionario storico-blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane, estinte e fiorenti" dello scrittore e araldista italiano Giovan Battista di Crollalanza (19 maggio 1819 – 8 marzo 1892), pubblicato a Pisa in tre volumi tra il 1886 e il 1890. Secondo quanto tramandato, la famiglia prese il nome dalla villa di Contreras, in provincia di Burgos, dove il conte di Castiglia Fernan Gonzalez eresse una fortezza che vendette a Fernan Saso che, da quel momento, cambiò cognome. Con la conquista di Segovia, Fernan vi si trasferì, a cominciare dalla prosperità di Contreras. Nel corso del tempo, la famiglia si è diffusa ad Avila, Jaen, Cordoba, Burgos, Madrid e altrove in Spagna. Successore di ...
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BlazonContreras
Variations Last name: Contrera,Incontrera,Incontreras
1. Coat of arms of family: Contreras
Language of the text: English
Gules, a tower or with port and windows overt gules.
Contreras, Incontreras, Contrera o Incontrera from Sicily.
Source: "Blasone In Sicilia ossia Raccolta Araldica" V. Palizzolo Gravina, Palermo 1871-75, page 155, table XXI-I; "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" volumeI, compiled by Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, editedby "la direzione del giornale araldico", Pisa 1888.
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