This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nunez de Villavicencio Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.families.aol.com/mbexec/msg/an/kRC.2ACE/600.3742.1 Message Board Post: Hi Doris, We are more than likely related. The Villavicencio name, whether Fernandez de or as we are Nunez de are the same thing. Villavicencio is the name of the noble villa of Villavicencio which began being used in the 13th century. Our ancestor Garci Ferrans was notably mowed down by a battalion of Moorish axe men while leading a squadron of Castllian & Leones knights. Alfonso VIII, seeing this flurry of activity surrounding his close friend, immediately rushed over with some of his men to take out the remaining moors. Garci was seriously injured. King Alfonso got on his knees and placed his royal hands in Garci's armor in order to cover his deep wounds. Whence his hands were removed they were blood red, hence the image of the five bloodied fingers on the family crest your dad saw a picture of. As far as Alfonso Nunez de Villavicencio y Stewart? He lived a few in the 17th/18th centuary and El Cid Campeador's (aka Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar) legendary reconquests of Spain agai! nst the saracens (moors, arabs and the like) occurred between about 1070 and prior to his death in 1099. I hope this helps clear things up. I have all the family history from La Laguna (Tenerife) to Cuba. bye, Tony