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Topic: Saldana ancestry
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ibnnet
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posted 01-11-2002 11:14 AM
  
I'm searching for any information regarding the Saldana surname and the castle that was named after it. |
Marko
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posted 01-11-2002 12:57 PM
Ibnnet, I don't know if you are the same person as Israel Saldana on the bulletin board of http://www.castles.org/ or not because there was almost the exact same question asked. But here is the answer I gave there:I know there is a Fuensaldaña Castle in the province of Valladolid in Spain. And I think that 'Fuen' means something like 'strong' although I don't know for sure. If you search for fuensaldana on a searchengine like Google you'll be sure to find some links with pics and info.
Here's one for good measure: http://www.end.com/~jynx/castles/fuensaldana/
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ibnnet
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posted 01-11-2002 01:18 PM
thank you for your lead...this castle was not as easy as it seemed to find on the web......... |
Peter
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posted 01-11-2002 03:37 PM
Just a little mention:
Place names came before personal names.
So most castles are name after a place or a feature. Not after a family.
As was the case with one of the earlier posts on 'de Merle'. The 'de' in French or 'di' in Italian meaning 'of'. This may be shortened to d', if it comes before a vowel.
I would not know the Spanish of this, but there is sure to be something like.
Though many features of a castle would be named after members of a family, ie, towers that were perhaps built over several centuries. |
Merlin
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posted 01-14-2002 12:51 PM
Peter: this may be correct for most castles dating back to the 12th century or earlier. But from the 13th century onwards, esp. in german speaking areas, there was a strong tendency to give newly built castles fantasy-names. Often they're named after wild animals who also appeared as heraldic figures. Noblemen of the 13th century had a weakness for bears, falcons, lions, griffins, ravens. So there are many castles with names like «Bärenfels», «Falkenstein», «Löwenburg», «Greifenberg» or «Hohenkrähen». As the noble families began to name themself «von Bärenfels» etc. at the same time, it is in many cases impossible to tell if the castle gave it's name to the family or otherwise.----Merlin---- |
Peter
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posted 01-15-2002 04:35 PM
Ta Merlin,
it does get complicated when sorting those names out. Bit like which came first, the chicken or the egg ?
The more I read of my surnames book, the greater the dose of Asprin gets ! |
duncan
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posted 01-15-2002 04:50 PM
Is that taken with a glass of your own wine or is Ale better? | |
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