Zambrano

Zambrano is a surname of Spanish and also Basque origin. Members of this family have played a prominent role through the history of Spain and The Americas.

Etymology

Zambrana or Zambrano comes from the word soberano ("sovereign").^{[citation needed]}.

Origins

The Zambrano family originated in the mountains of Biscay.^[1] Piferrer records that the first to bear this name was Fortun Sanchez.

Francisco Zazo y Rosillo, the Chronicler King of Arms to Philip V of Spain, chronicled the lineage of the Zambrano family from its origins in the village of Zambrana in the Gipuzkoa province in what was at the time the Kingdom of Castile.^[2] This Castilian origin is reflected in the Zambrano family crest, which features the castle sigil of Castile along with the rose sigil of Reus. The progenitor of this line was Ochoa de Zambraos, who served as a knight to the Catholic Monarchs.^[2] Zazo proceeds to trace the lineage through five generations (and the eventual evolution of the name from Zambraos to Zambrano), noting the spread of the family to Flanders, Úbeda, Málaga, Antequera and La Rioja, and the service of the family to Philip I of Castile, Charles V of Flanders and Philip II of Spain.^[2]

The village of Zambrana was named for the Zambrano family, who were granted a land grant there by Don Sancho in 1058.^[3]

The Estado Militar de España was an annual register of the status of military affairs of Spain, including the listing of special orders of military honor, including the Order of Santiago, the Order of Calatrava, the Order of Alcantara and the Order of Montesa. The Zambrano name can be found frequently among these registers.^[4]^[5]

Notable Zambranos

Jimmy Zambrano is a Colombian accordion player of Vallenato music.

Notable people with this surname include:

Alejandro Zambrano (born 1991), Spanish football midfielder
Alonso de Llera Zambrano (fl. 1610–1639), Spanish painter, active during Baroque period
Anthony Zambrano (born 1998), Colombian sprinter
Aura Zambrano (born January 1981), Venezuelan beauty pageant winner
Benito Zambrano (born 1965), Spanish screenwriter and film director
Carlos Zambrano (disambiguation), multiple uses, including:
- Carlos Zambrano (born 1981), Venezuelan baseball pitcher
- Carlos Zambrano (boxer) (born 1984), Peruvian boxer
- Carlos Zambrano (footballer) (born 1989), Peruvian football midfielder
Cesar Zambrano (born 1984), American soccer midfielder
David De La Mora Zambrano (born 1989), Mexican bantamweight boxer
Edgar Zambrano (born 1955), Venezuelan politician
Eduardo Zambrano (born 1966), Venezuelan baseball right fielder and first baseman
Esperanza Zambrano (1901-1992), Mexican poet
Fernando Zambrano (born 1949), Spanish footballer
Henry Zambrano (born 1973), Colombian footballer
Hjalmar Zambrano (born 1971), Ecuadorian footballer
Jesús Zambrano (born 1989), Venezuelan model and actor
Jimmy Zambrano (born 1968), Colombian accordionist and multi-instrumentalist
Jorge Luis Zambrano (1981–2020), Ecuadorian drug trafficker
Josmar Zambrano (born 1992), Venezuelan footballer
Juan Gabriel Concepción Zambrano (born 1972), Spanish track and field athlete
Juan José, Conde de Zambrano, (1750-1816) mine owner of Durango, Mexico, and builder of Palacio de Zambrano [es]^[6]
Lorenzo Zambrano (1945–2014), Mexican business executive and philanthropist
Manolo Zambrano (born 1960), Spanish football midfielder, and manager
María Zambrano (1904–1991), Spanish essayist, philosopher and academic
Mateo de Toro Zambrano, 1st Count of La Conquista (1727–1811), Spanish military leader in Colonial Chile
Merly Zambrano (born 1981), Ecuadorian footballer
Miguel Zambrano (born 1951), Peruvian wrestler
Octavio Zambrano (born 1958), Ecuadorian football (soccer) coach
Raúl Zambrano (born 1969), Mexican guitarist
Renzo Zambrano (born 1994), Venezuelan footballer
Richard Zambrano (born 1967), Chilean footballer
Roddy Zambrano (born 1978), Ecuadorian professional football referee
Víctor Zambrano (born 1975), Venezuelan baseball player
Vicente Paúl Ambrosi Zambrano (born 1980), Ecuadorian footballer
Yamila Zambrano (born 1986), Cuban judoka

Fictional characters

Kim Zambrano, Fire Department of New York paramedic, played by Kim Raver, on American television series Third Watch, seen on NBC from 1999 to 2005; she appeared in first five seasons, first episode of season six, and cameo in May 6, 2005 finale
The Zambrano crime family in Venezuela, from J.J. Connolly's Viva La Madness

References

^ Piferrer, Francisco (1858). Nobiliario de los reinos y señorios de España. p. 42.
^ ^a ^b ^c Mogrobejo, Endika (1995). "Zambrana o Zambrano o Zambranos o Zambraos". Diccionario hispanoamericano de heráldica, onomástica y genealogía (in Spanish). Editorial Mogrobejo-Zabala. ISBN 9788489965096. (excerpted at http://www.euskalnet.net/laviana/gen_hispanas/zambrana.htm)
^ "Monumentos y Patrimonio de Zambrana" [Monuments and founding of Zambrana]. Ayuntamiento de Zambrana. Archived from the original on June 30, 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
^ "Estado Militar de España: 1802" (PDF).
^ "Estado Militar de España: 1847" (PDF).
^ Jones, Oakah L. Jr.. "Juan José Zambrano of Durango: The Rise and Fall of a Colonial Peninsular." Colonial Latin American Historical Review 7, 1 (1998): https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/clahr/vol7/iss1/1

External links

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[Nobiliario-1] Piferrer, Francisco (1858). Nobiliario de los reinos y señorios de España. p. 42.

[Dic-2] Mogrobejo, Endika (1995). "Zambrana o Zambrano o Zambranos o Zambraos". Diccionario hispanoamericano de heráldica, onomástica y genealogía (in Spanish). Editorial Mogrobejo-Zabala. ISBN 9788489965096. (excerpted at http://www.euskalnet.net/laviana/gen_hispanas/zambrana.htm)

[3] "Monumentos y Patrimonio de Zambrana" [Monuments and founding of Zambrana]. Ayuntamiento de Zambrana. Archived from the original on June 30, 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2012.

[4] "Estado Militar de España: 1802" (PDF).

[5] "Estado Militar de España: 1847" (PDF).

[6] Jones, Oakah L. Jr.. "Juan José Zambrano of Durango: The Rise and Fall of a Colonial Peninsular." Colonial Latin American Historical Review 7, 1 (1998): https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/clahr/vol7/iss1/1

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