07/15/2022
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1 - Sicily – Ferdinando de Silva (fl. 1559), Marquis of Favara - Also associated with Galicia, Spain?
2 - Portugal – Dom Diogo da Silva was created the 1st Count of Portalegre in 1498, he was the son of Dom Rui Domes da Silva (c. 1391-1450), Governor
3 - found in Extremadura, Spain, Naples, Italy, and Rome, Italy – first borne by Count Don Gomez Paez de Silva in the 12th century - Counts of Cifuentes – Juan de Silva (1399-1464), 1st Count of Cifuentes, son of Alfonso Tenorio Silva, and grandson of Arias Gomes de Silva, Prince of Cordoba.
4 - Italy
5 - Silva of Naples
6 - San Salvador de Bayamo, Cuba – Spanish aristocratic family originally from Portugal, who settled in San Salvador del Bayamo in the 17th century – Mr. José Antonio de Silva y Ramírez de Avellano, a native of the town of Bayamo , Colonel of Militias, ordinary Mayor and perpetual Regidor of the City Council, Lieutenant Governor and War Captain of the town of San Isidoro de Holguín and founder of the town of Guisa, was granted the noble title of Marquis of Guisa by King Carlos III of Spain on May 15th, 1774
7 - This lineage was established in Chile since the 17th century and descended in the male line from the noble Portuguese house of Borges – there was Juan de Silva Bohorquez (c. 1590-1626), born in Portugal, son of nobleman Antonio Fernandez de Silva, had his confirmed in Seville in 1614, went to Peru at the age of 21, went to Santiago, Chile as well, had son Francisco de Silva who was a Cavalry Captain, Mayor of Santiago, acquired Rio Claro.
8 - Silva-Castiglione, Milan, Italy - In 1564 the last Schianno Castiglioni, Nicolao, died without descendants, naming as his heirs his nephews, sons of his sister Violante, who in 1519 had married a certain Giovanni Della Silva from a well-known family of Domodossola. The heirs were obliged to assume the name and crest of the Castiglioni and to respect the terms of Nicolao’s will, which...
9 - found in Reggio, Italy, one of the first documented members was Agostino Silva (fl. 1512), there was also Gian Nicolo Silva (fl. 1545), a doctor (of law?), Alfonso Silva (fl. 1590), a notary, and Prospero Silva (fl. 1631), “rector of the orphanages”
10 - Silva or Sylva - found in Osimo, Ancona, Italy, but originally from Spain, settled in Milan, Italy at beginning of the 16th century – Giovanni Battista Silva (fl. 1750) entered the nobility along with his descendants in perpetuity, had son Giacomo Silva who married a countess – the family also obtained the nobility of Simio and Loreo at the beginning on the 19th century
11 - Barbanti-Silva family, Italy – Joannes “dictus Barbanto de Alemania” (fl. 1498), is remembered as the progenitor. He had two children: Giovan Quirino and Giovan Galeazzo who continued the lineage – one branch added the surname Silva, following marriage and inheritance. Gian Galeazzo said, living in 1529, was Podestà di Fabbrico. One of his sons, Ercole, married Silvia dei Silva and continued the family, who also took on the surname Silva.
12 - Milan, Italy - Counts of Biandrate and feudal marqueeses of Canepa – Donato Silva, Count of Biandrate, had a residence known as Villa Ghiralanda Silva, in the middle of the 17th century
13 - Milan, Italy – Counts of Biandrate
14 - de Silva
15 - Milan, Italy
16 - Milan, Italy – Marquis – there was Diego Pedro de Sylva (1592-1661), Marquis of Orani, son of Rui de Silva Mendoza, 2nd Duke of Pastrana
17 - Milan, Italy – Marquis – there was Diego Pedro de Sylva (1592-1661), Marquis of Orani, son of Rui de Silva Mendoza, 2nd Duke of Pastrana
18 - de La Silva
19 - Portugal – Counts of Rendufe – Simao da Silva Ferra de Lima e Castro (1795-1857), 1st Bount of Renduffe, diplomat, son of Thomas da Silva Ferraz
20 - Silva de Hijar – Aragon, Spain – Pedro Fernández Silva de Hijar (1245-1299), 1st Baron of Hijar, knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre
21 - Francois Silva (fl. 1696), doctor of medicine, Guyenne, France
22 - Languedoc, France – Jean-Baptiste Silva (1682-1742) was a French doctor, son of Francois Silva (d. 1712), a doctor from Bordeaux, from a family of apothecaries of Jewish origin
23 - Pierre Silva (fl. 1696), merchant bourgeois, of Seyne, France
24 - House of Silva-Tarouca, a branch that became established in Austria in the 17th century – descended from Johann Gomez da Sylva (1671-1738), envoy of the King of Portugal in Vienna, married Countess of Taraouca, whose son Emanuel Teles da Silva, a Privy Councilor, was the progenitor
25 - da Sylva – Portugal – there was Duarte da Silva (1596-1688) who was born in Lisbon and became an opulent merchant who had agencies in Antwerp, Rouen, Rome, Venice, London
26 - Francisco da Silva (d. 1693), son of Duarte da Silva, became a Knight of the Military Order of Christ
