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Language of the text: Portugûes
Nobility: Nobres
Nobles in:Portugal
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Variations Last name: Peixinho
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
This family comes from the dos Protocarreiros, because D. Egas Henriques de Portocarreiro, who was in the conquest of Seville and was married to D. Teresa Gonçalves de Curveira, had several children and among them one called Gomes Viegas de Portocarreiro, who had the nickname of Peixoto, say that for taking a sea trout to the count of Bologna later King D. Afonso III, which a cormorant had dropped inside the castle of Celorico da Beira, when he was besieged by that prince, because he remained faithful to the King D. Sancho II, his brother. It is said that this Gomes Viegas de Portocarreiro was first called Peixão and then Peixoto, which all means the same: small fish. It was Gomes Viega rich-man of D. Sancho II and his ambassador to France, he was in the council of Leão convened by Pope Innocent IV, he deserved great support from D. Afonso II; which gave him and honors from Pardelhas, near Guimarães, and other lands had the landlord of Calçada, in Santo Estêvão de Oldrões, in the municipality of Penafiel de Sousa, who was the family manor. He was married to D. Maria Rodrigues, daughter of Rui Gonçalves Pereira and D. Urraca Viegas and paternal granddaughter of D. Gonçalo Rodrigues da Palmeira, whose marriage comes from those of Peixoto's surname. ...
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BlazonPeixoto
Variations Last name: Peixinho
1. Coat of arms of family: Peixoto
Language of the text: Portugûes
Xadrezado de ouro e de vermelho de cinco peças em faixa e sei em pala.
Brasão da família Peixoto, fonte bibliográfica "Armorial Lusitano - Anuário da Nobreza de Portugal".
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