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Language of the text: Portugûes
Nobility: Senhores - Família Nobre
Nobles in:Portugal
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Variations Last name: Lanções,Lançois,Lanços
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Several armorial registers record under the appellation Lança, and its variants Lanços, Lançois, and Lanções, diverse branches of the same lineage. The Lanças are attested in Alentejo, their presence traced at least to the mid sixteenth century, yet genealogists, by reason of insufficient knowledge, do not determine whether this house is of Portuguese extraction or derived from Spain. Of the Lanços, Lançois, and Lança, however, the origin is noted, asserting that the family was originally denominated Lanços and held considerable distinction within Galicia, their ancestral seat established at Lourinha near Porrinho, in the province of Pontevedra, with the chief of the house being the Conde de Maceda, a dignity bestowed by Rei D. Filipe IV upon D. Alonso de Lanços e Andrade. Garcia de Lanços, a fidalgo honrado of Galicia, lord of the house of Domestas and regedor of Betanços near Pontedeume, fathered Afonso de Lanços, lord of Lourinha and progenitor of the Condes de Maceda, and Pedro Garcia de Lanços, who was wed to Isabel Lopes Lobato, also spouse of Pedro Vaz de Abreu, daughter of Rui Lobato and ...
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BlazonLança
Variations Last name: Lanções,Lançois,Lanços
1. Crest of family: Lança, Lanções, Lanços, Lançois
Language of the text: Portugûes
De verde, com cinco lanças de prata, em banda, hasteadas de ouro, e alinhadas em contrabanda. Timbre: Tres lanças do escudo, enfeixadas e atadas de verde, aliás um braço vestido de verde, empunhando uma lança do escudo.
Brasão da família Lança (Lançois ,Lanços ,Lanções). Fonte bibliográfica: "Armorial Português" Santos Ferreira, Guilherme Luiz dos, 1849-1931.
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