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.
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Language of the text: Portugûes
Nobility: Senhores - Família Nobre
Nobles in:Portugal (Portugal)
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Heraldic dossiers :
Moniz
Portugûes
Apelido muito antigo, origináriamente patronímico de Munio ou Moninho, nomes próprios outrora frequentes mas hoje caídos em desuso. No tempo de D. João I vivia Gil Aires Moniz, parente do Condestável D. Nuno Álvares Pereira e seu Escrivão de Puridade. Dele foi filho Vasco Gil Moniz, que casou com D. Leonor de Lusignan, filha de Febo de Lusignan, Senhor titular de Saida, no reino de Jerusalém, filho natural de João II, Rei de Chipre, o qual era sexto neto de Américo de Lusignan, Rei de Chipre e de Jerusalém e de sua primeira mulher Eschiva de Ybelin, e sétimo neto de Hugo VIII Lebrun, senhor de Lusignan. D.Leonor, que era, portanto, parenta dos Reis de Chipre, veio de Aragão por dama de D. Isabel, mulher do Infante Regente D. Pedro, Duque de Coimbra, dando este casamento origem ao ramo dos Monizes de Lusignan, de que se destacou o célebre jurista do século XVI Febo Moniz, o grande defensor da Independência portuguesa contra a ocupação Filipina.Timbre, um leopardo de azul com uma estrela do escudo na fronte. ...
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The coat of arms will be checked and, if necessary, redesigned in strict compliance with the heraldic rules by our experts.
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Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families
