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Language of the text: Español
Nobility: Señores - Caballeros
Nobles in:España - Portugal
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Surname of Portuguese origin. It comes from Ponte de Lima, north of Portugal. The oldest known member of this family, according to Antonio Machado de Faria, was Rui Gonçalves de Medeiros, who sided with the Master of Avis against King Juan I of Castile, in the 14th century. A branch of this family settled in the 15th century in the Algarve and another, on the island of São Miguel, in the Azores, from where it would leave to conquer new lands; among these may be counted the western Canary Islands, where many Portuguese settled. Esteban de M., a descendant of the Portuguese Medeiros established in Tenerife, testified in La Laguna, in 1595, before the notary public Juan Cabrera Real; He was married to Doña Anastasia Sánchez de la Tienda, a direct descendant of Alonso Sánchez de la Tienda, a noble settler who obtained land divisions in Tenerife and settled in ...
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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.
BlazonMederos
1. Coat of arms of family: Mederos
Language of the text: Español
En campo de gules, cinco cabezas de águila, de oro, puestas en sotuer.
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