Alonso Pita da Veiga

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Alonso Pita da Veiga, born in Ferrol in 15th century Galicia, was the most remarkable young officer of the Spanish Tercios fighting under the orders of Count Fernando de Andrade in the Battle of Pavia (Italy), between the years 1513-1525, becoming a lord with the right to wear a coat of arms and was granted land and property in Ferrolterra, his birthplace, for having surrendered, with his own sword, in the battlefield the king of France Francis I.

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