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Publicado: 24 de octubre de 2012
Gallego. Se extendió por toda la península ibérica con la reconquista, enlazando con los más nobles linajes.Tiene como tronco al caballero D. Froyla Fernández, casado con Doña Glasiunta, hija del ReyChindasvinto.
Probó numerosas veces su nobleza en las Órdenes Militares de Santiago, Calatrava y Alcántara.
A don Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa, Señor de Zafra, Villalba y La Parra, le fuéotorgado el título de Conde de Feria en 1.460.
Descripción del Escudo de Armas: En campo de oro, cinco hojas de higuera de sinople puestas en sotuer.
This Spanish name FIGUEROA was a topographicname for someone who lived by a fig tree, or a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of figs, originally rendered as FIGA, from the Latin FICUS. Occupational surnames originally denoted theactual occupation followed by the individual. At what period they became hereditary is a difficult problem. Many of the occupation names were descriptive and could be varied. In the Middle Ages, atleast among the Christian population, people did not usually pursue specialized occupations exclusively to the extent that we do today, and they would, in fact, turn their hand to any form of work thatneeded to be done, particularly in a large house or mansion, or on farms and smallholdings. In early documents, surnames often refer to the actual holder of an office, whether the church or state.Most of the place-names that yield surnames are usually of small communities, villages, hamlets, some so insignificant that they are now lost to the map. A place-name, it is reasonable to suppose, was auseful surname only when a man moved from his place of origin to elsewhere, and his new neighbours bestowed it, or he himself adopted it. The name has many variant spellings which include FIGUERAS,FIGUIER, FIGUIERE, FIGUERES, HIGUERAS, FIGADERE, and FIGURA. Spanish surnames are to be found from as early as the mid-9th century, as patronymics, and hereditary surnames seem to have come in...
Probó numerosas veces su nobleza en las Órdenes Militares de Santiago, Calatrava y Alcántara.
A don Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa, Señor de Zafra, Villalba y La Parra, le fuéotorgado el título de Conde de Feria en 1.460.
Descripción del Escudo de Armas: En campo de oro, cinco hojas de higuera de sinople puestas en sotuer.
This Spanish name FIGUEROA was a topographicname for someone who lived by a fig tree, or a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of figs, originally rendered as FIGA, from the Latin FICUS. Occupational surnames originally denoted theactual occupation followed by the individual. At what period they became hereditary is a difficult problem. Many of the occupation names were descriptive and could be varied. In the Middle Ages, atleast among the Christian population, people did not usually pursue specialized occupations exclusively to the extent that we do today, and they would, in fact, turn their hand to any form of work thatneeded to be done, particularly in a large house or mansion, or on farms and smallholdings. In early documents, surnames often refer to the actual holder of an office, whether the church or state.Most of the place-names that yield surnames are usually of small communities, villages, hamlets, some so insignificant that they are now lost to the map. A place-name, it is reasonable to suppose, was auseful surname only when a man moved from his place of origin to elsewhere, and his new neighbours bestowed it, or he himself adopted it. The name has many variant spellings which include FIGUERAS,FIGUIER, FIGUIERE, FIGUERES, HIGUERAS, FIGADERE, and FIGURA. Spanish surnames are to be found from as early as the mid-9th century, as patronymics, and hereditary surnames seem to have come in...
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