Resendes

Resendes Portuguese surname (variant of Resende), derived from a habitational name from any of several places so called in Portugal, for example in the province of Beira. The place name is from the genitive case of a Visigothic personal name composed of the elements reþs (reths) ‘counsel’, ‘advice’ + sinþs (sinths) ‘way’, ‘path’. [Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4]

It has been documented in the following forms Reesendi, Reisindi [XIII century] , Reezende [XV century] , Rresende and Reseende [Antenor Nascentes, II, 261] , reaching the Portuguese vernacular as designated geography. [Joseph Schiavo, p.10] , with the derivative Latin Risindi.

The family started with D. Egas Muniz, branch of the first King of Portugal, founder of the monastery of Carquere, next to which is the family estate of D. Arnaldo Rezende.. D. Martin Afonso de Baião was the first that used the surname of Rezende, who his mother descended from D. Ramiro II, who died in 950, king of Leon). [AnuárioGenealógico Latino, I, 81]

Famous persons with Resendes surname

Pedro Miguel Carreiro Resendes Pauleta

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