Tovar
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Tovar, usually preceded by the particle de (meaning from), was the surname adopted in the Middle-Ages by a Castilian noble house of gothic ancestry that received the lordship of the village of Tovar from Fernando III. It has since spread to several Spanish and a few Portuguese branches.
The Tovar surname in the Americas appears mainly as a toponymic derived from the many settlements of this name founded by the Spanish, and therefore does not share the same genealogical origin.
[edit] People
- Alonso Miguel de Tovar, a Spanish baroque painter
- César Tovar, a Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
- Fernando Sánchez de Tovar, a medieval Spanish nobleman and admiral
- Francisco de Paula Vieira da Silva de Tovar, 1st Viscount of Molelos, a Portuguese nobleman and general
- Gregorio López de Tovar, a Spanish nobleman and scholar of the Renaissance
- Juan de Tovar y Toledo, a Spanish nobleman and military of the Reconquista
- José de Guevara y Tovar, Spanish viceroy of Navarre
- Rigo Tovar, a Mexican singer
- Sancho de Tovar, a Castilian-born Portuguese navigator and explorer
- Sancho de Tovar e Silva, grandson of the former, a Portuguese nobleman and military
[edit] Fictional people
- Tovar, a character from The Strangerhood
[edit] Places
- Tovar, a Spanish village ruled by the Tovar family in the Middle-Ages, place of origin of the Tovar surname
- Tovar Municipality, Mérida, Venezuela
- Tovar Municipality, Aragua, Venezuela
- Colonia Tovar in Tovar Municipality, Aragua
- El Tovar Hotel in Arizona, United States
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