Cornejo(ingles)

Cornejo is a Castilian last name of toponímico origin. The toponímicos last names are those that derive from the name of the place where it lived or it had properties and earth, the founder of the lineage. In this case, this last name was taken directly from "Cornejo", that is the name of a population of the province of Towns, in Castile the Old one, and therefore, the first carrier of the Cornejo last name was somebody to that the members of their community identified like "native or natural of Cornejo". The toponímico Cornejo derives from the Castilian word "cornejo", that derives as well from Latin "curniculus", that is a type of very ramoso cornáceo shrub. Members of this lineage proved their nobility in Ordenes Military, as it gives to faith of it the "Indice of the Proven Last names of the Order of Carlos III", in whose registry appear Ines of the Cornejo, Juan Cornejo and Antonia Cornejo and Guzmán. This last name happened to America during the time of the discovery, where the news of Doña Ana Cornejo, born in Salamanca in 1511 are had, that was the wife of Juan Alvarez Maldonado, who carried out the position of governor of Santiago of Chile. Other references mention to Antonio Cornejo, born in Salvatierra de Tormes, in Salamanca, that was grandfathers of Don Francisco de Avendaño and Valdivia, horseman of the Order of Santiago; Mencía Cornejo, born in Santander in 1632, was grandmother of Miguel Uriarte and Borja, born in Quito (Ecuador), that also was Horseman of the Order of Santiago, and Miguel Cornejo, captain of Arequipa and grandfathers of Diego of the Rivers and Cornejo, been born in Cuzco (Peru) in 1612. He was Horseman of the Order of Santiago and held the position of Regidor of Cuzco. Blazon of Arms: In gold, five cornejas of saber, pricked of gules, placed Navies and in vane, the one of crowned gold means; bordura of silver, loaded with four rampantes lions of gules. Timbre: Three pens of ostrich. Origin: Spain.