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.
Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili - Cavalieri
Nobles in:Italia
The country or region of the dossier mainly refers to the places where the family was ascribed to the nobility and may be different from those of residence
Família portuguesa antiga e muito nobre, de virtude clara e ancestral, que se espalhou ao longo dos séculos em várias regiões da Itália. A origem dessa cognominação, para dizer o mínimo de genealogistas competentes, deve ser procurada em um apelido baseado no diminutivo da palavra "peixe". Diz a tradição que o fundador da família é que D. Gomes Viegas de Portocarreiro (- 1258), cavaleiro, apelidado de "Peixoto" que era um defensor de D. Alfonso III, em cuja corte ele aparece entre 1251 e 1252, como consultor. Filho de D. Egas Portocarreiro Henriques e D. Teresa Gonçalves de Curveira, irmão de D. João Viegas de Portocarreiro, arcebispo de Braga, ele teria recebido algumas terras no feudo de D. Alfonso III e se estabeleceria primeiro em Monte Longo, distrito de Braga e depois na freguesia de Serzedelo em Guimarães, também em Braga, onde teria construído a mansão de Peixoto, decorada com uma ...
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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.
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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
