De'arriaga History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Etymology of De'arriaga

What does the name De'arriaga mean?

The distinguished surname De'arriaga originates in Basque region of Spain. It was a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of stony soil, derived from the element "harri" or "arri", which mean "stone," plus the locative suffix "-aga", denoting "place of", collectively meaning "someone from a stony place".

Early Origins of the De'arriaga family

The surname De'arriaga was first found in the Basque country of Spain, as one of the oldest names with a manor house in Alza next to S. Sebastiao da Biscay, in the province of Guipuzcoa. A member of this lineage, Salvador de Arriaga, took part in the battle of the Navas de Tolosa, wounded in 1212, being among the five hundred children who fought in it.

From this early beginning, the family branched to Ustaroz (Roncal), Bera de Bidasoa (Navarre), Viscaya and Alava. Arriaga was located in the municipality of Vitoria-Gasteiz, province of Álava, Basque Country and was first reference in 1025. The Brotherhood of Arriaga, as it came to be known, existed until its dissolution in 1332. Arriaga is now part of the neighborhood of Lakua-Arriaga.

They descend from an ancient house known since the time of Garcia IV Sancho the Noble, king of Navarre from 1035 to 1054. Its members founded a house in Tafalla and several became barons (ricohombres) in Aragon, at the time of King James I the Conqueror in the 13th century.

Some of the family moved to Portugal where they were established in Alvalade and Coracao de Jesus (Lisbon) and one of whose contemporary descendant lines is represented by Don Manuel de Arriaga Brito, a resident of Lisbon (Portugal).

Early History of the De'arriaga family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our De'arriaga research. Another 63 words (4 lines of text) covering the years 1164, 1169, 1564, 1585, 1592, 1606, 1612, 1615, 1622, 1667, 1800, 1858 and 1885 are included under the topic Early De'arriaga History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

De'arriaga Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Arriaga, Ariaga, de Arrigo, de Arriaga and others.

Early Notables of the De'arriaga family

include Pablo José Arriaga, SJ (1564-1622), a Spanish Jesuit missionary in South America. He was ordained in Peru in 1585. He later became Rector of the College of Arequipa, (1612-1615). Rodrigo de Arriaga (1592-1667) was a Spanish philosopher, theologian and Jesuit. He was born in 1592, at Logroño in Castile. He joined the Society of Jesus on September 17, 1606, when he was 14 years old. He is remembered as one of the foremost Spanish Jesuits...
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De'arriaga migration to West Indies +

The British first settled the British West Indies around 1604. They made many attempts but failed in some to establish settlements on the Islands including Saint Lucia and Grenada. By 1627 they had managed to establish settlements on St. Kitts (St. Christopher) and Barbados, but by 1641 the Spanish had moved in and destroyed some of these including those at Providence Island. The British continued to expand the settlements including setting the First Federation in the British West Indies by 1674; some of the islands include Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Island, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica and Belize then known as British Honduras. By the 1960's many of the islands became independent after the West Indies Federation which existed from 1958 to 1962 failed due to internal political conflicts. After this a number of Eastern Caribbean islands formed a free association. 1

De'arriaga Settlers in West Indies in the 19th Century

Pedro DeArriaga, who arrived in Dominican Republic in 1838 2

Contemporary Notables of the name De'arriaga (post 1700) +

Tereza de Arriaga (1915-2013), Portuguese painter, granddaughter of Manuel de Arriaga
Manuel de Arriaga (1840-1917), Portuguese lawyer, the first attorney-general and the first elected President of the First Portuguese Republic (1911-1915)
Lucrécia de Arriaga (1844-1927), First Lady of Portugal, wife of Manuel de Arriaga
Kaúlza de Arriaga (1915-2004), Portuguese general, writer, professor and politician, Commander of Portuguese troops in the Mozambican War of Independence

Sources +

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_West_Indies
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)