Origin of Bustos

Last name from a Latin derivative that represents the half human body without arms. The head of some Emperor carved into medals and coins. It has its most outdated meaning in the form of a tomb or burial. The Roman Bustum was the pyre where the corpses of heroes were cremated, whose ashes deserved to be confused with the Bust of Caesar. Participants in this origin are the large number of places that are preserved with this name in Asturias, Galicia and what was generally called Vasconia in the past, ending in La Rioja, the cradle of a fortress that was called Castil de Bustos y Castilla when It was a set of solid and main defences, with high and crenellated towers, of Counts first, Roman governors, and then Sovereigns of vast well-defended territory, who enforced respect, once the domination of Rome was over, to the Basques and Moors, to later join León , linking with the offspring of this and other Monarchies, thus being able to display the haughty motto "We do not descend from Kings, but the Kings of Us", preserved by the most noble house of the Lara, proof of this are these verses:

"The Busts, which the eagle declares,

they descend from Lara's house".

The Bustos, parents of the house of Corvera, whose affiliation stems from the genealogy of Lorenzo de Bustos, held the positions of Perpetual Aldermen and Alguaciles Mayores in Baza (Granada), after having spread throughout Almería and Jaén, whose main Fortresses were wardens and defenders, and where the Comendador de Santiago Gómez de Busto left a memorable memory. Those of the same lineage later figured among the founders of the Maestranza de Granada, in which they are widely represented.

In Asturias they had solar houses in Avilés, Candás, Carreño, Castiello (Logrezana), Corvera, Guimarán, Logrezana, Navia, Perlora, Pola de Luanzo, Pravia and Villaviciosa and Yervo.

In Alava he had a solar house in the town of Laguardia, belonging to the Brotherhood of the same name. its owner Domingo Periz de Busto, documented in 1350.

In Navarre, his owner, María Miguel del Busto, had solar houses in the town of Los Arcos, in the Merindad de Estella, documented in the Navarre firefight of 1350, and in the city of Viana, in the Merindad de Estella.< /p>

He also had houses in Boca de Huérgano (León); in Villanueva de los Infantes (Ciudad Real), and in Jerez de los Caballeros (Badajoz).

In Toledo he had solar houses in Boróx, and in the town of Ocaña. García de Busto, a native of Ocaña, Señor de las Cabezuelas, belonged to the latter, and his wife María de la Cadena had Andrés de Busto, a native of Ocaña, Señor de las Cabezuelas. that he married María de Villegas and they were the parents of García de Busto y Villegas, a native of Ocaña and Knight of the Order of Santiago in 1550.

Gómez de Busto, a native of Ocaña, proved his nobility to enter the Order of Alcántara in 1603.

The branch established in Toledo originated from the house of Ocaña, and to which Fernando de Busto y Santa Cruz and Herrera Posada y de la Cerda, Knight of the Order of Calatrava since 1689, belonged.

Other Bustos figured among the conquerors of Alcaraz (Albacete), and one of them was Alonso de Busto, a neighbor and Alderman of Alcaraz and Family Member of the Holy Office, who married Catalina de Bustamante, a native of Alcaraz, and they were the parents of Doctor Alonso de Busto y Bustamante, a native of Alcaraz and Consultant to the Inquisitions of Seville and Granada, who married Juana de Aguilar y Mosquera, a native of Alcalá de Guadaira (Seville), born of this union Alonso Busto y Bustamante de Aguilar, a native of Seville, Major Constable of the Inquisition of Alcaraz and Knight of the Order of Santiago. in which he entered on December 20, 1629.

Among the Hijosdalgo Knights called by the Catholic Monarchs Don Fernando and Doña Isabel in 1494 at his Court was Pedro Fernández de Bustos.

Alonso de Bustos obtained distribution in the city of Guadix (Granada) for being a neighbor or resident of it, in 1489.