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Language of the text: Español
Nobility: Señores - Familia noble
Nobles in:España (Portugal)
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The origin of heraldry is lost in the night of time, at the time when warriors protected themselves from evil and demonstrated their aggressiveness by decorating their shields with protective symbols and marks. Later, the true Heraldry emerged, at the time of the Crusades, in which knights wore their coats of arms as a means of identifying themselves in battle, later becoming emblems of nobility. Heraldry thus originated in circles of the highest nobility, later spreading to other layers of society. The award of the coat of arms was therefore made to a certain individual with the right to perpetuate it in his lineage. Who was the main ancestor and propagating trunk of this illustrious lineage is ignored for its remote antiquity, being traditional and immemorial the nobility of their children, who have always and everywhere enjoyed the consideration and pre-eminence corresponding to their lustrous births, not being the most enlightened of its lines the one that took root and flourished in Portugal. According to studies carried out in archives and documents of cities, the writers affirm that the surname Ferreira has its origins in Castilla (Spain), but it is recorded for the first time in Portugal, having a solar house in Villa de Ferreira. The genealogists mention as propagators of this lineage an Alvaro Rodrígues Ferreira, rich man of Leao, who lived by 1170, Lord of Meilas, married and from this union Don Rodirigo Alvares Ferreira was born, who was Lord of the plot of Villa Ferreira and Head of the families of Don Fernando Alvares Ferreira, from this branch come the branch of the Ferreira de Portugal. One of the oldest gentlemen of whom there is memory is Ruy Pérez, great-grandson of Fernando Jeremías, who married Doña María Suárez and ordered the construction of the Ferreira Monastery. The branch of this family that settled in Spain over time spread to Galicia, León, Aragón and Navarra. Juan Lorenzo de Ferreira was at the mercy of King Don Juan I of Portugal, Lord of the Councils of Pobolide and Mayor Warden of the Castillo de la Guarda. He had as ...
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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.
BlazonFerreira
1. Coat of arms of family: Ferreira
Language of the text: Español
En gules, cuatro fajas de oro.
"Enciclopedia heráldica y genealógica Hispano-Americana". E/E, Rollo 9 A. y A. Garcia Carraffa.
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