Hi all,

Here is some information about the arms of two Governors of Spanish Colonial Louisiana:

Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (b. 1747 d. 1799), Governor of Louisiana from 1797 to 1799

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Gayoso_de_Lemos

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fga47

Here is a small image of a document at Tulane University that shows his arms:

http://www.genealogy.com/users/g/i/l/Michael-F-Gilsonde-lemos/PHOTO/0019photo.gif

http://www.genealogy.com/users/g/i/l/Michael-F-Gilsonde-lemos/PHOTO/0019photo.html

A much later color image of his arms were published in Historia genealógica de las familias más antiguas de México:

http://bimg1.mlstatic.com/armas-de-don-manuel-gayoso-de-lemos-coronel-de-los_MLM-F-3833881918_022013.jpg

According to this publication, the arms are quartered Gayoso,  Magallanes, Amorin, Lemos and Sotomayor:

http://books.google.com/books?id=V6BCAAAAYAAJ&q=“Manuel+Gayoso+de+Lemos”+“escudo+de+armas”&dq=“Manuel+Gayoso+de+Lemos”+“escudo+de+armas”&hl=en&sa=X&ei=D6U7UqupG8W7iwK0u4DwDQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA

Juan Manuel de Salcedo (b. 1743 d. 1815), Governor of Louisiana from 1801 to 1803

his son Manuel Maria de Salcedo was a Governor of Spanish Colonial Texas:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_María_de_Salcedo

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fsa08

Here is an image of Juan Manuel de Salcedo’s arms from a document in the Historic New Orleans Collection:

http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/THNOC_IMG/1974.25.28.25_web.jpg

http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/M3/WEB_DETAIL_M3/SISN 40182?SESSIONSEARCH

Here is another document with the same arms:

http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/M2A/WEB_DETAIL_M2A/SISN 8207?SESSIONSEARCH

Cheers,

Wonderful; thanks.  Will emblazon these in due course and add them to REAA.

This is neat:

Quote:

...at this time the City Treasurer, Don Juan de Castanedo, mentions a writing set of silver (at present in use by the Cabildo) which he bought at public auction of the estate of Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos; consisting of an inkstand in the shape of a mortar, a sand box in the shape of a barrel, a wafer seal in the shape of a drum, a small bell, and another box to hold the quills for the pens. All pieces engraved with the Coat of Arms of Gayoso. He asked that the Cabildo approve this purchase and authorize payment out of the city funds…

http://www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org/~nopl/inv/digest/digest22.htm

snelson;100668 wrote:

This is neat:

 

http://www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org/~nopl/inv/digest/digest22.htm

I’ve seen this search page about 50 times and never paid attention to anything except the first two entries, about the arms of the city/province.  How embarrassing.  Thanks.

Governor Gayoso is now up in the REAA.  I guess that makes 2800.  Actually more, since I added a couple of others as well.

http://www.americanheraldry.org/pages/uploads/Roll/gayoso.gif

http://www.americanheraldry.org/pages/index.php?n=Roll.G

Joe,

Regarding the first Gálvez y Madrid blazon
Quote:

Quarterly, 1st grand quarter per pale, Dexter Argent from a terrace a tree Vert surmounted by two wolves passant in pale Sable, sinister Argent three escallops Azure (Gálvez); 2nd grand quarter quarterly, i Or a bend Gules, ii Argent a cross of Calatrava Gules, iii Argent a lion rampant Purpure, iv Or a castle triple-towered proper (Madrid); 3rd grand quarter Azure a tower supported by two lions and in chief an estoile [Argent]; 4th grand quarter Argent two goats in pale Sable (Cabrera)

To whom is the third grand quarter attributed?  Except for the star and some smaller details (chains, triple-tower), it looks very much like the Kelly arms.

—Guy

Guy Power;100673 wrote:

Joe,

Regarding the first Gálvez y Madrid blazon

 

To whom is the third grand quarter attributed? Except for the star and some smaller details (chains, triple-tower), it looks very much like the Kelly arms.

 

—Guy

No idea.  I hadn’t registered Kelly specifically, but it did strike me that it has an Irish look to it.

And Salcedo.

http://www.americanheraldry.org/pages/uploads/Roll/salcedo.gif

(The purpure is pinkish because that is apparently the norm in Spanish heraldry.)

http://www.americanheraldry.org/pages/index.php?n=Roll.S?action=browse

Great work Joe!

Confirmation here:

http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/LPC/id/281/rec/16

that the second governor of Spanish Louisiana, Marshal Alejandro O’Reilly, used the basic Irish arms of O’Reilly, Vert a bloody dexter hand proper supported by two lions rampant Or. 

I know nothing of his genealogy to know whether he was descended from the chiefly line.

Quote:

Confirmation here:

http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.o…/id/281/rec/16

 

that the second governor of Spanish Louisiana, Marshal Alejandro O’Reilly, used the basic Irish arms of O’Reilly, Vert a bloody dexter hand proper supported by two lions rampant Or.

 

I know nothing of his genealogy to know whether he was descended from the chiefly line.

Hi Joe,

Ampelio Alonso de Cadenas y Lopez gives completely different arms for O’Reilly in his article Títulos nobiliarios españoles vinculados con Hispanoamérica y su heráldica (Hidalguía, 1996, volume 44, number 254, page 50):

http://25.media.tumblr.com/bd625a4e4585f21115e839d19ed4d4f1/tumblr_mtjc7cs2gd1rq2fm7o1_500.jpg

However, I am more inclined to trust a primary source like the proclamation over a secondary source like this article.

Cheers,

snelson;100711 wrote:

However, I am more inclined to trust a primary source like the proclamation over a secondary source like this article.

Me, too, but in any case Cadenas says this coat was granted in 1772, three years after O’Reilly’s 9-month stint as governor of Louisiana in 1769. A horse surrounded by branches of laurel looks a lot like an augmentation of honor; I wonder if don Alejandro el Sangriento might have quartered the new coat with the ancient O’Reilly arms. In any case, we know what he used in 1769, and it’s now up on the REAA.

http://www.americanheraldry.org/pages/uploads/Roll/oreilly.gif

Edit: I put the following in the comments block on the roll and added Louisiana Digital Library as the source of use of the Irish arms:

"Printed on proclamations issued by him as governor of Spanish Louisiana, 1769. The arms are those of the Irish O’Reilly lords of Breifne. The field marshal was subsequently granted the title of Count de O’Reilly by King Carlos III along with a Spanish coat of arms, Or a horse passant Gules within on orle of three branches of laurel Vert fructed Gules, according to Cadenas, Títulos nobiliarios españoles (1996)."

By the way, the association of the name O’Reilly with things Spanish irresistibly calls to mind the builders episode of "Fawlty Towers":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyuS8GcENfQ

Don Alejandro probably wouldn’t have appreciated the joke.