Avellaneda

Originally of Galicia , this surname has a branch that spread all over America and gained particular fortune and fame in Argentina, where a politician with that surname- Nicolás Avellaneda- was president in the XIX century.

There were Avellanedas in almost every Iberian order. In the Order of Santiago, for example, we find as participants: don Lope de Avellaneda y Delgadillo, born in Aranda de Duero (1575); don Andrés y don Manuel de Avellaneda Peñalosa (Alcalá de Henares, 1668); don Francisco Javier de Avellaneda y Sandoval (Campo de Criptana, 1706); don Rodrigo de Avellaneda Sandoval y Rojas, Marquess of Santa Clara and Torremayor (Madrid, 1713) and don Pablo de Avellaneda y Peñalosa (Alcalá de Henares, 1715) among other.

In the Order of Calatrava we find don Bernardino de Avellaneda y Leyva (Aranda del Duero, 1593), don Juan de Avellaneda Delgadillo, Count of Castrillo (A. del Duero, 1599) and don Féliz de Avellaneda y Zuñiga (Sevilla, 1641) among other lords of the same surname that proved their nobility by entering the order. Almost a century later, in 1663, don Gaspar de Avellaneda Haro Sotomayor of Madrid entered the Order of Alcántara.

Arms:

• Or, two black wolves, one over the other, carrying two preys in their mouths. Bordure gules with eight crosses of St. Andrew (X's) or. (En campo de oro, dos lobos de sable, uno sobre otro, cebados de dos corderos; bordura en gules, con 8 aspas de oro).
• Other families with the same surname may use as shield: Azure, thirteen bezants Argent in three pales, the central of five bezants instead of four; per pale, Argent, two wolves pasant, one over the other.