Blanca History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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From the historical and fascinating Italian region of Venice emerged a multitude of noble families, including the distinguished Blanca family. Although people were originally known only by a single name, it became necessary for people to adapt a second name to identify themselves as populations grew and travel became more frequent. The process of adopting fixed hereditary surnames was not complete until the modern era, but the use of hereditary family names in Italy began in the 10th and 11th centuries. Italian hereditary surnames were developed according to fairly general principles and they are characterized by a profusion of derivatives coined from given names. Although the most common type of family name found in the region of Venice is the patronymic surname, which is derived from the father's given name, the nickname type of surname is also frequently found. Nickname surnames were derived from an eke-name, or added name. They usually reflected the physical characteristics or attributes of the first person that used the name. The surname Blanca came from a light-haired or light-complexioned person having derived from the Germanic word blank which means white.

Early Origins of the Blanca family

The surname Blanca was first found in northern Italy, in the modern territory of Emilia-Romagna. The earliest record of the Blanca family shows them in Bologna, where Martino Bianchi was a chancellor in 938 in Orvieto, one of the more prosperous cities of this time. Bianchi is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.

Early History of the Blanca family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Blanca research. Another 31 words (2 lines of text) covering the years 1350, 1447, 1460, 1510, 1581, 1590, 1604, 1612, 1656, 1657, 1662, 1679, 1729, 1752 and 1810 are included under the topic Early Blanca History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Blanca Spelling Variations

Italian surnames come in far more variations than the names of most other nationalities. Regional traditions and dialects are a decisive factor in this characteristic. For example, northern names tend to end in "o", while southern in "i". Also important, but not unique to Italy, was the fact that before dictionaries and the printing press most scribes simply spelled words according to their sounds. The predictable result was an enormous number of spelling variations. The recorded spellings of Blanca include Bianchs, Bianchis, Bianchiardi, Bianca, Biancani, Biancat, Biancato, Biancheda, Bianchedi, Bianchera, Biancheri, Bianchesi, Bianchessi, Bianchet, Bianchetti, Bianchetto, Bianchi, Bianchini, Bianchinotti, Bianciotti, Bianco, Biancoli, Biancolini, Bianconcini, Biancone, Bianconi, Biancotti, Biancotto, Biancucci, Blanc, Blanca, Blanco, DeBianchi, De Bianchi, Del Bianco, DelBianco, LaBianca, La Bianca and many more.

Early Notables of the Blanca family

Prominent among members of the family was Bianco da Siena, a religious poet and mystic born in Venice in 1350, who was also a composer of hymns; Francesco Ferrari Bianchi was born in Modena in 1460 and created dramatic religious paintings famous for their use of color; Isidoro Bianchi (1581-1662), was an Italian painter of the Baroque period; Bartolomeo Bianco (1590-1657), an Italian architect of the early Baroque; Francesco Bianchini (1662-1729), was an...
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Blanca migration to the United States +

A search of the immigration and passenger lists has shown a number of people bearing the name Blanca:

Blanca Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Miguel De Blanca, who arrived in America in 1813 1
Santiago Blanca, who arrived in Puerto Rica in 1860 1

Contemporary Notables of the name Blanca (post 1700) +

Estrella Blanca (1938-2021), Mexican Luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, "Estrella Blanca" is Spanish for "White Star"
Maria Blanca Vargas-Magana, American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1980 2
Blanca Stella Aráuz Pineda (1909-1933), first National Heroine of Nicaragua, she was noted as a Telegraphist
Blanca Eugenia Viteri Segura (1928-2023), Ecuadorian writer, anthologist, women's rights activist, and teacher, also known as Eugenia Viteri
Blanca "Blanquita" Heredia Osío (1934-2022), Venezuelan pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela 1956
Blanca Álvarez González (1957-2021), Spanish journalist, writer, and poet
Blanca María Rodríguez de Pérez (1926-2020), First Lady of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993
Blanca Castellon (b. 1958), Nicaraguan poet, winner of Instituto de Estudios Modernistas of poetry in Valencia, Spain
Blanca Suárez (b. 1988), Spanish actress
Blanca Sanchez Vela (1936-2014), American politician and matriarch of one of the most prominent families in Brownsville, Texas

Citations +

Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 10) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html