<P> Nolasco is a surname of French origin . </P> <P> The first member of the Nolasco family was Guillaume de Nolasque, a Norman noble who participated in the siege of Nola, in southern Italy, in the eleventh century . Legend has it that, such was his bravery, that he was nicknamed by his fellows "Nolasque" or "Nolasc", which means, in the Italian - Norman medieval dialect, "the man of Nola". Guillaume later returned to Normandy and built the Nolasque castle, in Cotentin . He was the husband of Oremburge, a daughter of Serlo I of Hauteville, and had three sons: Geoffroy (1st sire of Vignats), Nicholas (canon in Rouen) and Roger (who stayed in Toulouse, and was the ancestor of saint Peter Nolasco). </P> <P> The Nolasque were lords of Vignats and Verson, in Normandy . Aubert de Nolasque, a grandson of Guillaume, was lord of Castelnaudary, in Southern France . In the fifteenth century, Louis Albert de Nolasque, vice-admiral of France, was Baron of Léon, in Brittany . </P> <P> The Nolasco came to Spain in the thirteenth century, with Saint Peter . His nephew, Jacques (or Jaime) became Viscount of Ardales, near Málaga . In the twentieth century, the Nolasco became marquesses of Torre Soto de Briviesca and Bonanza . </P>

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