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Language of the text: Español
Nobility: Señores - Caballeros
Nobles in:España (Aragón - Galicia)
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Legends in handwritten and printed works say that the surname Peña has its origin in one of the three Wise Men, who after worshipping the son of God in the portal of Bethlehem, went to Spain where descendants of his royal lineage remained. Another more reasonable version states that another of the Peña was one of the knights who helped García Xímenez, the first King of Navarre, in his undertakings against the Moors around the year 750. He had many houses in various regions of Spain, and due to their great antiquity and the lack of testimonies, our investigation is prohibited and we cannot clarify whether they all came from the same plot and trunk or had different cradles. He is known in different forms, all of them used, indistinctly, in the same trunk branch. This lineage had several houses in different regions, among the best known being the houses ...
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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.
BlazonPeña
1. Crest of family: Peña
Language of the text: Español
En campo de azur, cinco peñas de oro puestas en sotuer, y en el jefe una corona real de oro.
Escudo con esmaltes a inquirir, un castillo sostenido por rocas, de lo mismo.
Peña de Galicia. Fuente bibliográfica: "Simbología y diseño de la heráldica gentilicia galaica" de Luis Valero de Bernabé, Martin de Eugenio, Vicenta María Márquez de la Plata.
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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
