This family comes from D. Gomes Viegas de Bastos, son of D. Egas Gomes Barroso and his wife, D. Urraca Vasques de Ambia, and was the first to have such a nickname because he lived in the municipality of Cabeceiras de Basto, where he had many farms that he had inherited from his father. D. Gomes Viegas lived in the time of Kings D. Afonso II, D. Sancho II and D. Afonso III ,. He was with the ambassador Rui Gomes de Briteiros at the Council of Leão, where King D. Sancho II was deposed and his brother was appointed governor of the Kingdom in the year 1245. He married D. Maior Rodrigues de Vasconcelos, daughter of Rui Peres de Gandarei and his wife, Teresa Vasques, of whom there was a generation that continued the nickname of Bastos. Outside marriage, he had, from the daughter of a squire, D. Pedro Gomes Barroso, whose descendants followed this nickname. Formerly the nickname was Bastos, preceded by the preposition of, but at the beginning of the seventeenth century it began to change, first by the preposition that became de and then by the pluralization of the name. So those of Bastos became de Bastos or simply Bastos, because today almost everyone uses it without preposition. They have no weapons of their own, using some of the Barrosos and others of the Neighborhoods. ...
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