page_title: House of Romay
section_title: Arms
hierarchical_section_title: House of Romay / Arms
caption_attribution_description: Español: Gran Escudo del Palacio de Gago-Tavares en Pontevedra capital
context_page_description: The House of Romay is a Spanish aristocratic family that descends from 8th-century nobility of pre-Reconquista Galicia, in northern Spain. According to historians, it descends from King Alfonso I the Catholic, through his natural grandson Infante Román de Romaes, Count of Monterroso and Santa María de Hortigueira. The principal family seats are the Palace of Cadro and the Castle of Sotomayor, both in Pontevedra, Galicia.
  The current head of the family is Don Ricardo de Romay y Hernandez-Chazaro, 44th Count of Monterroso, 47th Señor de Cadro and Monterroso.
context_section_description: The first record of the Romay heraldic arms can be found in the Castle-Fortress of Romay in Tras do Rio, in Frieiro, in the district of San Julian de Romay, Portas. As far as the armoury is concerned, the most ancient depiction dictates: «Coronet: That of a Lord. Crest: in a silver field a Lion Rampant Gules, under whose claws two Fig Leaves Saber and an ‘M' Gules under a Comital Coronet Or”.
  The crowned M and the Lion Rampant in Or allude to the royal lineage of King Alfonso I.
caption: Coat of Arms displaying the Romay family alliances.
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