Correia is a noble medieval family of Portuguese Christian conquerors of the

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History

The origin of the Correia family is from the village of

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, district of Tui, Pontevedra,

Kingdom of Galicia The Kingdom of Galicia ( gl, Reino de Galicia, or ''Galiza''; es, Reino de Galicia; pt, Reino da Galiza; la, Galliciense Regnum) was a political entity located in southwestern Europe, which at its territorial zenith occupied the entire north ...

. The history of the family is linked with that of

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. Their ancestors arrived in Portugal in the early 11th century, at service to Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portucale (1066 -1112). This family line comes from Paio Ramiro, a noble medieval knight. His descendants had led military campaigns against the Moors in the Algarve, which culminated in the taking of Silves and was crucial to the final conquest of that region in 1249 during the reign of Sancho II. The Portuguese surname "

Correia Correia (Portuguese and Galician for "leather strap") is a surname of Portuguese and Galician origin, also spelled Correa or Corrêa. Correia/Correa is found throughout all of the Iberian Peninsular. It may refer to: People General Portuguese ...

" is of occupational origin. The name is derived from the Portuguese word ''correia'', meaning "a leather strap or belt" (Latin ''corrigia'', "fastening," from ''corrigere'', "to straighten or to correct"), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of leather belts and straps. The name is found throughout Portugal and also in the Galicia region of northwest Spain. A notable bearer of the name was António Correia, a Portuguese commander who in 1521 conquered

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, beginning eighty years of Portuguese rule in the Persian Gulf state. D.

Paio Peres Correia D. Paio Peres Correia was a Portuguese warrior who played an important role in the thirteenth-century Reconquista. He was born c. 1205, in Monte de Fralães, a civil parish in the municipality of Barcelos. He went to Uclés, then the seat of t ...

, a notable medieval Portuguese Christian, is the ancestor of Saint Nuno of Saint Mary (Holy Constable Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira) whose daughter Beatriz Pereira Alvim married D. Afonso the illegitimate son of King João I and of D. Inês Pires Esteves and future Duke of Braganza. This marriage entailed the

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and became the reigning house of Portugal in 1640. It has been linked over the centuries until the present day with the royal houses and Catholic principalities in Europe and Brazil.{{Citation needed, date=February 2018

References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051041/http://www.bprmadeira.org/imagens/documentos/File/bprdigital/ebooks/Elucidario_vol_I.pdf *http://www.concelhodecamaradelobos.com/dicionario/correia_joao_afonso.html *http://brasaodefamilia.blogspot.ch/2011/04/brasao-da-familia-correia.html *http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~renecg/portugues/correadescricao.htm Portuguese noble families