Elliot

===Portugal===

===Portugal===

An English Eliot family came to [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]] led by Gilbert Eliot, who accompanied the then 1st [[Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York|Earl of Cambridge]] to aid King [[Ferdinand I of Portugal]] during the [[Fernandine Wars]], during the [[Third Fernandine War]] of 1381 and 1382. He married Guterres Fernandes, daughter of the nobleman Fernão Guterres Telo, [[Crown of Castile|castillian]], one of the twenty-eight, who were expelled from Portugal in compliance with the Peace of Santarém of 24 March 1373, between Portuguese King Ferdinand I and [[Henry II of Castile|Henry II]]. Gilbert Eliot established himself at Pernes in [[Santarém, Portugal]], and aged 28 years old, joined the army of King [[John I of Portugal]], whom he accompanied in the [[Portuguese conquest of Ceuta]] on 21 August 1415, where he remained and served with a good reputation. He married Teresa de Vasconcelos, daughter of Joane Mendes de Vasconcelos, Lord of Alvarenga and of the Land of Parada< Their son, Octávio Eliot, was the father of Fernão Liote. Gilbert Eliot's great-great-great-great-grandson, Francisco Liote, [[Knight]] of the [[Military Order of Christ|Order of Christ]], was appointed Nobleman of the Royal Household, [[General]] of the Province of the [[Alentejo]] and Great [[Captain]] by King [[Philip III of Portugal]]. This not only gave Francisco Liote the rank of a nobleman, but for his service at [[Tangier]], he was granted new arms by a Letter of 22 July 1638. These arms refer to is killing a lion that had attacked him at the city. Francisco Liote married Isabel Álvares Banha, of whom he left children continuing this variation of the Elliot surname, usually written as Leote, although it changed over time to the [[English language|English]] form of Liote. The Liote name went from Pernes to Tangier and later returned to the [[Iberian Peninsula]], settling at the Province of the [[Algarve]], [[Kingdom of the Algarve]]. The arms granted to Francisco Liote are: vert, an armed arm argent, moving from the left flank and with the hand carnation, holding by the ear a lion's head or, torn off and bloody. Crest: the arm and the head of the shield."Armorial Lusitano", Afonso Eduardo Martins Zúquete, Editorial Enciclopédia, 3rd Edition, Lisbon, 1987, p. 307 The family also used the forms Liotte and Leotte.

An English Eliot family came to [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]] led by Gilbert Eliot, who accompanied the then 1st [[Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York|Earl of Cambridge]] to aid King [[Ferdinand I of Portugal]] during the [[Fernandine Wars]], during the [[Third Fernandine War]] of 1381 and 1382. He married Guterres Fernandes, daughter of the nobleman Fernão Guterres Telo, [[Crown of Castile|castillian]], one of the twenty-eight, who were expelled from Portugal in compliance with the Peace of Santarém of 24 March 1373, between Portuguese King Ferdinand I and [[Henry II of Castile|Henry II]]. Gilbert Eliot established himself at Pernes in [[Santarém, Portugal]], and aged 28 years old, joined the army of King [[John I of Portugal]], whom he accompanied in the [[Portuguese conquest of Ceuta]] on 21 August 1415, where he remained and served with a good reputation. He married Teresa de Vasconcelos, daughter of Joane Mendes de Vasconcelos, Lord of Alvarenga and of the Land of Parada< Their son, Octávio Eliot, was the father of Fernão Liote. Gilbert Eliot's great-great-great-great-grandson, Francisco Liote, [[Knight]] of the [[Military Order of Christ|Order of Christ]], was appointed Nobleman of the Royal Household, [[General]] of the Province of the [[Alentejo]] and Great [[Captain]] by King [[Philip III of Portugal]]. This not only gave Francisco Liote the rank of a nobleman, but for his service at [[Tangier]], he was granted new arms by a Letter of 22 July 1638. These arms refer to is killing a lion that had attacked him at the city. Francisco Liote married Isabel Álvares Banha, of whom he left children continuing this variation of the Elliot surname, usually written as Leote, although it changed over time to the [[English language|English]] form of Liote. The Liote name went from Pernes to Tangier and later returned to the [[Iberian Peninsula]], settling at the province of [[Algarve]], [[Kingdom of the Algarve]]. The arms granted to Francisco Liote are: vert, an armed arm argent, moving from the left flank and with the hand carnation, holding by the ear a lion's head or, torn off and bloody. Crest: the arm and the head of the shield."Armorial Lusitano", Afonso Eduardo Martins Zúquete, Editorial Enciclopédia, 3rd Edition, Lisbon, 1987, p. 307 The family also used the forms Liotte and Leotte.

===DNA===

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