Correia is a noble medieval family of Portuguese Christian conquerors of the
Reconquista.
History
The origin of the Correia family is from the village of
Salceda de Caselas
Salceda de Caselas is a municipality in Galicia, Spain, in the province of Pontevedra. It is bordered to the north by the municipality of Ponteareas, to the southeast by the municipality of Salvaterra de Miño, to the southwest by the municipalit ...
, district of Tui, Pontevedra,
Kingdom of Galicia. The history of the family is linked with that of
Portugal. 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
Bahrain, 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
House of Braganza
The Most Serene House of Braganza ( pt, Sereníssima Casa de Bragança), also known as the Brigantine Dynasty (''Dinastia Brigantina''), is a dynasty of emperors, kings, princes, and dukes of Portuguese origin which reigned in Europe and the Ame ...
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