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Nobility: Nobles - Knights - Barons - Counts
Nobles in:Portugal - Brazil
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Ancient and noble Portuguese family, of clear and ancestral virtue, that has worldwide spread, over the centuries. Already in the 12th century, the nobleman Pedro Galvão flourished, who died on August 12, 1179 and was buried in the monastery of Santa Marinha da Costa, in front of the altar of the Chapter, where Donna Maria Pais, his wife, was also buried. Their only son, Don Paio Galvão, was educated in the same monastery. He embraced the religion, professing it in 1178, and was a person of high rank, becoming a cardinal. More than a century later, João Galvão flourished, a noble knight who lived in the Alentejo and who owned a farm in the Algarve. He was a contemporary of kings D. Afonso IV and D. Pedro I. He had a daughter, married to him with D. Afonso Lopez da Costa, vassal of the King. From that moment on, the ...
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BlazonGalvão
1. Coat of arms of family: Galvão
Language of the text: English
Party per pale; 1° argent, a falcon sable, beaked and membered azure, charged with a crescent or on the chest; 2° gules, six rib bines argent 2,2 and 2, issant from the sides. Crest: the falcon holding in the beak a rib bone.
Coat of arms of the Galvão family in Brazil. Its arms are an alliance between Galvão and Costas. Bibliographic source: "Indice heraldico, e appendice relativo ao Brazil" Augusto Romano Sanches de Baena e Farinha de Almeida Sanches de Baena (Visconde de).
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