Pereira
The pear tree, and a name of the Sephardim.
- Origin
- Portuguese
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- Portuguese family
The seat of Pereira
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Current mission
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Help rebuild the Pereira clan →What does the Pereira name mean?
Topographic, from pereira, a 'pear tree' or pear orchard. A family living by one took it as a name. Also one of the best-documented Sephardic surnames of the Portuguese Jews.
The history of Pereira
Pereira is the pear orchard, a plain topographic name common across Portugal, but it carries a second, deeper history. It was among the surnames borne by Portuguese Jews and the New Christians forced to convert in 1497, and the great Sephardic diaspora carried Pereira to Amsterdam, London, the Caribbean and the Americas, where it remains a recognised Sephardic name alongside Mendes and Nunes.
Castles the Pereira held
Strongholds this name held for a decade or more, look one up, or rebuild it to explore.
- Castle of Santa Maria da Feira
Under the Pereiras the castle became a palatial residence; the line of the Counts of Feira held it until its extinction in 1708.
- Castle of Evoramonte
Given to the constable Nuno Álvares Pereira after John I's accession, passing to his grandson.
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