Arcaya

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Arcaya is a surname with a very ancient lineage. It had its primitive solar at Arcaya (whose name took) in the judicial district of Vitoria. According to scholars, in demonstration of this ancient lineage, states that in the battle that took place alongside Padura of Arrigorriaga in the year 848, Andres de Arcaya was foud. Diego de Arcaya served under James I of Aragon, and returned after a few years, settling in the town of Lekeitio, Biscay. The current house of Arcaya was built in 1132.

The first Arcaya who went to the Americas was Don Melchor de Arcaya, who arrived in Chile from Vitoria in 1630, settling in Colina, near Santiago. The Arcaya were large landowners in Chile, mainly in Santiago, and the surname was common in the neighborhood of Vitacura and the nearby towns of Pirque and Hill.

Unquestionably is in Venezuela where the surname Arcaya is more abundant, but also may be found elsewhere, namely in Bolivia.

In the Philippines, especially in the capital and the Province of Luzon, there are many people with the surname Arcaya, but are not related to the Arcaya from Basque Country. This were Filipino native whose ancestors have changed their original names, by the missionaries, at the time of baptism.

The most famous Arcaya throughout history is Francisco Diaz de Arcaya, son of Pedro Diaz de Arcaya, who took the name of Francisco de Vitoria when became a friar. He is regarded as father of international law.

Heraldic

The file on heraldry has the following data: Arcaya .- Basque, the place of his name in the judicial district of Vitoria (Alava). Diego de Arcaya fought against the Moors next to D. James I, after returning to Biscay and founding new house in Lekeitio, judicial district of Marquina. Later he switched to Americas (Venezuela and Chile). The Alava bring: In field of silver, an oak vert and two wolves sable, interns at the foot of the tree, one ahead of the trunk and another from behind, and tied him with ropes.

D. Diego de Arcaya, who served under the orders of King James I, brings: Shield match, 1 described Weapons, and 2 degrees gules, a castle silver surmonter three gold stars. Bordura of azure with eight bezantes silver. The result of Venezuela: Coat barracks, 1 and 4 gold, three bands sable loaded quotation silver overloaded and they de armiño of sable, with one first and third and three Central and 2 and 3 of gules, five panels of gold brought into Sotuyo.

In the Chancellery of Real Valladolid won provision of nobleness in the years indicated, the following Arcaya alaveses: Pedro de Arcaya, neighbor Vitoria (1600); Francisco de Arcaya, neighbor rather than Arcaya (1657), and Felix Diaz, Arcaya, neighbor rather than Añua (1772). Francisco Diaz de Arcaya was Contador owner of Reason and Inspector General of Income Tax in fish and Torres applied to the coasts of Andalusia and the castles of Puntal and Matagorda. In the town of Soria, avecindado Juan Jose Manuel Diaz de Arcaya, who gave information nobleness against Real Valladolid Chancellery in 1784.

Pedro Diaz de Arcaya and Retana, a native of the town of Zurbano (Alava), was Knight of the Order of Santiago, where he joined in 1647, but their evidence was not preserved in the Natural History Archive.

Bathrooms de Velasco and other authors said that some Arcaya, Vizcaya, corrupts his surname, called "Arcacha."

Among the knights hijosdalgo Noble received in the State of Madrid, which came into luck putting the charges of the council, appeared in 1615, Juan de Arcaya.

Weapons of Arcaya: a field of silver, with an oak vert and two wolves sable, interns at the foot of the tree, one ahead of the trunk and another from behind, and tied him with ropes. (Centro de Investigaciones Alvear Herald.)