Correia family

[1] The origin of the Correia family is from the village of Salceda de Caselas, district of Tui, Pontevedra, Kingdom of Galicia.

Their ancestors arrived in Portugal in the early 11th century, at service to Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portucale (1066 -1112).

His descendants had led military campaigns against the Moors in the Algarve, which culminated in the taking of Silves and was crucial to the final conquest of that region in 1249 during the reign of Sancho II.

[citation needed] D. Paio Peres Correia, a notable medieval Portuguese Christian, is the ancestor of Saint Nuno of Saint Mary (Holy Constable Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira) whose daughter Beatriz Pereira Alvim married D. Afonso the illegitimate son of King João I and of D. Inês Pires Esteves and future Duke of Braganza.

It has been linked over the centuries until the present day with the royal houses and Catholic principalities in Europe and Brazil.