Archive for November, 2007
Sotomayor Family Crest
Posted on 28. Nov, 2007 by El Heraldo.
Galician last name, a branch happened to Extremadura and Andalucía. Descends from the knight Méndez Sorodea, father of Payo Méndez Sorodea, whose son Men Páez populated the valley of Soto, and called him Sotomayor
There exists another version, a tragic one by the way; a knight under the service of the first-born of the kingdom of [...]
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Bravo Family Crest
Posted on 25. Nov, 2007 by El Heraldo.
Castilian surname, extended in the Peninsula and America.
Knights of this lineage enlisted to Santiago’s Order; don Juan Bravo de Hoyos, natural of Solórzano, on 1617; and don Melchor Bravo de Hoyos, on 1660; don Juan and don Alonso Bravo de la Meza, natural of Los Reyes (Peru), on 1666; don Juan Bautista Bravo Velasco [...]

