Noronha is a family name

Family name

A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...

 common among some aristocratic families in Portugal

Portugal

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This family has its origins in the marriage of Alfonso, Count of Gijón and Noreña (natural son of King Henry II of Castile) with Isabel of Portugal

Isabel of Portugal, Countess of Gijón and Noroña

Isabel of Portugal was the natural daughter of King Ferdinand I of Portugal, from unknown mother.- Biography :Before 1386 she was betrothed to João Afonso Telo de Menezes, 1st Count of Viana , son of the powerful Dom João Afonso Telo de Menezes, 4th Count of Barcelos...

 (natural daughter of King Ferdinand I of Portugal

Ferdinand I of Portugal

Ferdinand I , sometimes referred to as the Handsome or rarely as the Inconstant , was the ninth King of Portugal and the Algarve, the second son of Peter I and his wife, Constance of Castile...

). Their marriage was one of the clauses of the peace treaty, signed in 1373, between the two peninsular kingdoms.

Alfonso was Count of Noreña

Noreña

Noreña is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is completely surrounded by the municipality of Siero...

, an Asturian

Asturias

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 village he had received from his father, and his children used the Portuguese spelling Noronha as their family name.

People:

• Fernando de Noronha
  Fernando de Noronha, 2nd Count of Vila Real
  Dom Fernando de Noronha was a 15th C. Castilian-Portuguese nobleman. He was the 2nd Count of Vila Real, a title which he acquired and shared by his marriage to Brites de Menezes, 2nd Countess of Vila Real and the third Portuguese governor of Ceuta from 1437.Fernando de Noronha united two...
  
  , 2nd Count of Vila Real
  Count of Vila Real
  Count of Vila Real was a Portuguese title of nobility created by a royal decree, in 1424, by King John I of Portugal, and granted to Dom Pedro de Menezes, also known as Peter I of Menezes, 1st Count of Viana .The Menezes, a high nobility family quite close to the first Dynasty Kings in Portugal,...
  
   (son of Alfonso of Gijón-Noreña and Isabel of Portugal), governor of Ceuta
  Governor of Ceuta
  This is a list of Governors of the city of Ceuta, under Portuguese control since its conquest by King John I of Portugal, in 1415, until 1640.Since 1640, Ceuta didn't recognize the Portuguese sovereignty, becoming controlled by Spain....
  
  
• Afonso de Noronha, viceroy of Portuguese India
• Camila de Noronha, early 17th century Portuguese noblewoman, married to Gonçalo Pires de Carvalho
• Francisco Noronha
  Francisco Noronha
  Father Francisco Noronha was a Spanish physician and botanist who resided for some time at Manila, Luzon, Philippines, where he took much effort to organize the Royal Botanic Garden and stock it with valuable plants...
  
   (1748-1787), botanist
• Frederick Noronha
  Frederick Noronha
  Frederick Noronha is an independent journalist based in Saligao in the Bardez taluka of Goa. He is active in cyberspace and involved with e-ventures involving Goa, developmental concerns and free software. He writes mostly on free software / open source issues, technology, and computing issues in...
  
  , Indian journalist
• Fernão de Noronha
  Fernão de Noronha
  Fernão de Loronha , whose name is often corrupted to Fernando de Noronha or Fernando della Rogna, was a prominent 16th C. Portuguese merchant of Lisbon, of Jewish descent. He was the first charter-holder , the first donatary captain in Brazil and sponsor of numerous early Portuguese overseas...
  
   (15th century/16th century), Portuguese explorer
• Osnar Noronha
  Osnar Noronha
  Osnar Noronha Montani is a Peruvian footballer currently playing for Club Juan Aurich in the Peruvian First Division, as an attacking midfielder or left winger-Colegio Nacional Iquitos:...
  
  , Peruvian footballer.
• Rodrigo António de Noronha e Meneses, governor of the Kingdom of the Algarve, mid 18th century.
• Alfredo Eduardo Barreto de Freitas Noronha
  Alfredo Eduardo Barreto de Freitas Noronha
  Alfredo Eduardo Barreto de Freitas Noronha, better known as Noronha , was a Brazilian football player.He played for the Brazilian national team in the 1950 FIFA World Cup.- External links :**...
  
   (1918 – 2003), Brazilian football player.

Places:

• Fernando de Noronha
  Fernando de Noronha
  Fernando de Noronha is an archipelago of 21 islands and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, offshore from the Brazilian coast. The main island has an area of and had a population of 3,012 in the year 2010...
  
  , Brazilian island group in the Atlantic Ocean