Zaldaña History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Spain

Etymology of Zaldaña

What does the name Zaldaña mean?

The surname Zaldaña comes from the place name Saldaña, a town and municipality in the province of Palencia in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain.

Early Origins of the Zaldaña family

The surname Zaldaña was first found in the former Kingdom of Leon, as well as in old Castile. The Zaldaña family are believed to have descended from Bernardo del Carpio and also Sancho Dias de Saldaña, who was lord of the town of Saldaña and who lived in 870 A.D. A descendant of his, Diego Lopes de Saldaña, son of Fernando Lopes de Saldaña, who was lord of Miranda and Castanar in Castille, was ambassador to Rome for King Henrique IV, King of Castille and Leon (1454-1474). He moved to Portugal, and established a family of that name there. Another branch of the family moved to Andalucia.

Early History of the Zaldaña family

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Zaldaña Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Saldaña, Saldana, Zaldaña, Zaldana and others.

Early Notables of the Zaldaña family

Don Manuel de Saldaña y Pineda, who was made Marquis of San Antonio in 1755. António de Saldanha was a Castilian-Portuguese 16th-century captain. He was the first European to set anchor in what is now called Table Bay, South Africa, and made the first recorded ascent of Table Mountain...
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Migration of the Zaldaña family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Gregorio de Saldana and Francisco de Saldana, who arrived in 1517. Hipolito de Saldana arrived in Spanish America in 1534. Juan de Saldana settled in Peru in 1560.

Contemporary Notables of the name Zaldaña (post 1700) +

Samuel Zaldaña Galdámez, San Salvador first president of Club Deportivo Futbolistas Asociados Santanecos (FAS), a professional Salvadoran football club
Shirley Joanna Rivera Zaldaña (b. 1971), Guatemalan politician from the Vamos party, President of the Congress (2022-2024), the third woman to preside over the Congress of Guatemala