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Language of the text: Portugûes
Nobility: Nobres
Nobles in:Portugal (Portugal)
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Noble family, one of the oldest, which seems to be of Castilian origin and its manor is the village of Ferreira, in the Kingdom of Castile, today called Herrera de Rupisverga, at the entrance to the land of Campos. The oldest person of this nickname mentioned by the genealogists is D. Álvaro Rodrigues Ferreira, rich-man of Leão, who lived for 1170, lord of Meilas, today Mancilhe de la Serra, in Castela-a-Velha, the qaul is said to have been meirinho de Leão. It seems that his wife had D. Rodirigo Álvares Ferreira, who was lord of the manor of the village of Ferreira and head of the Herreras family, and D. Fernando Álvares Ferreira, who lived in Portugal in Paço de Ferreira, located in the parish of S. João de Eiris, municipality of Aguiar de Sousa, and served King D. Sancho I, of whom he was a rich man, and received many inheritances from him in that municipality. Children were born out of their marriage, from which Ferreiras, from Portugal. Timbre: an ostrich of its color, with a golden horseshoe in its beak. ...
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BlazonFerreira
1. Coat of arms of family: Ferreira
Language of the text: Portugûes
De vermelho, com quatro faixas e ouro.
Citado em "Armorial Lusitano - Anuário da Nobreza de Portugal".
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