Tag Archives: origin
La Madrid Family Crest
Posted on 29. May, 2008 by El Heraldo.
Good evening, today I am posting the family crest of the last name La Madrid. This is an old lineage, it took its name of the place called La Madrid, in the Valley of Valdaliga, in León. In the Chronicles of Alfonso X “the Sage”, don Vicente de la Madriz is mentioned, he was a [...]
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Valdivieso Family Crest
Posted on 26. May, 2008 by El Heraldo.
Hello, this evening is a hot one (37 centigrade) here in the north of Tamaulipas, Mexico, greetings to our readers from Lima, Peru and the city of Guatemala. Today we have the family crest of the last name Valdivieso. Of the valley of Valdivieso, in the mountains of Burgos. This state resived many nobility titles [...]
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Urbina Family Crest
Posted on 26. May, 2008 by El Heraldo.
Good evening, today we have the family crest of the last name Urbina. Last name of Basque origin, descending of the old Señores de Vizcaya. One of the branches founded a new house in Antequera, connecting with the Marquises of Cabriñana, Rozalejo y del Vado; don Andrés Manuel de Urbina, bacame Marquis of Torrecasa on [...]
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Tejada Family Crest
Posted on 26. May, 2008 by El Heraldo.
Good evening, today we have the family crest of the last name Tejada which has an old and special origin. This last name is of very old and very noble lineage,its origin is from the Sierra of Cameros, located near the villages of Muro y Las Lagunas, in the Rioja. There was found the house [...]
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Navarrete Family Crest
Posted on 22. May, 2008 by El Heraldo.
Good evening, today I am posting the family crest of the last name Navarrete. Last name of origin riojano, descending from Pedro Rodríguez, knight of Navarrete’s village, where he took his last name, and passed to the conquest of Baeza, on 1227. Don Alfonso de Navarrete, field master that participated in the battle of San [...]
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Sotelo Family Crest
Posted on 20. May, 2008 by El Heraldo.
Good afternoon, today I present to you the family crest of the last name Sotelo. On it we find four “thistles” identified by the glossary as: Iron piece that was disseminated in the battle field to hurt the paws of the horses. It is in the shape of a star with four spikes or knives. [...]
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Molina Family Crest
Posted on 19. May, 2008 by El Heraldo.
Good afternoon, as I promised yesterday, here you have the family crest of the last name Molina. Last name formed by a branch of the house of Lara which had the Señorío de Molina. It extended to the whole Peninsula, passing Canaries and America. The infant don Alonso, married four times, one of them with [...]
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Hita Family Crest
Posted on 19. May, 2008 by El Heraldo.
Good afternoon, today I am posting the family crest of the last name Hita. Next Monday, if God allows it to me, I will post Molina family crest and on Tuesday the Sotelo family crest, as per Mr. Alfonso Orozco Molina’s request. Castillian last name, of the village of Hita, in Guadalajara, this primitive house [...]
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Paez Family Crest
Posted on 19. May, 2008 by El Heraldo.
Good evening, today I have for you Mr. Reyes’ second requested last name Páez , I am glad to have been able to meet his request hoping he likes it. Páez comes from the name Payo that is also known as patronymic last name “Payo”, used in old times in Galicia, Asturias and in Portugal, [...]
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Reyes Family Crest
Posted on 14. May, 2008 by El Heraldo.
Good evening in this occasion, as per Mr. Guillermo Augusto Reyes Páes request, we are posting the family crest of the last name Reyes. The first mention of this last name is from the Bishop of Orense in his book “Book of Lineages”, from the II century. Mentioning it comes from a nobleman, of an [...]
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