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Hellfire

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Royal Spanish Surnames
« on: February 02, 2006, 04:09:03 PM »
Hello,

I was reading this site and many more and it occured to me that the only prominent family surnames are Habsburg and Bourbon. I understand that out of all the royal families, they stand out among only a handful. But were there other royal surnames that also need mentioning? For example what were Ferdinand and Isabel's surname respectively?

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Luke

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Re: Royal Spanish Surnames
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2006, 04:30:36 PM »
Well generally they both were of the House of Trastamara which was the generally used patronym.  

More correctly, they belonged to the family of Ivrea-Burgundy.  

Luke

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Re: Royal Spanish Surnames
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2006, 10:28:02 PM »
Further to my last post, if you want to see a geneological tree of the House of Burgundy-Ivrea, Paul Theroff has an amazing file on them located here:

http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/index.html

Scroll down to Burgundy-Ivrea and if you click on that link, it downloads a word processed file that is fascinating.

Bernardino

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Re: Royal Spanish Surnames
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2006, 06:19:44 PM »
I believe that the Castillian-Aragonese-Spanish Royal Family used no surname until the Habsburgs...

The Spanish Habsburgs were called 'de Austria'...

Names as Trastamara, Avis, Burgundy-Ivrea, etc, were given by genealogists to denominate a lineage, a family or a dynasty...they don't correspond to surnames as we understand...