Basque surname, this ancient lineage originating from the seat bearing its name in Sada, in the merindad of Aoiz (Navarre), in the 14th century; it established a branch in Pamplona.
Issues.
Primitive arms: Per fess gules and argent; overall a crescent of the same tinctures, counterchanged.
Others: Or, a well vert with a sable curb.
There are different variants of the original arms first described, with the crescent chequy argent and sable, and even a bordure chequy added.
Lineage of Sada. A Navarrese-Aragonese lineage, of Provençal origin according to tradition. Fortunio, in the time of Íñigo Arista —again according to tradition—, seized the castle of Sada from the Muslims, as well as that of Javier, which he later lost. From the first toponym he took the surname of his lineage, settling in Sos. His successors served in the armies of the Pyrenean kings and alongside El Cid.
Theobald I, king of Navarre, granted the castle of Javier to Martín de Sada. From then on, all branches of the family resemble one another —except for the crest—, the shield bearing, on a field gules, a crescent and a point in base argent, all chequy.
Pedro de Sada, of the Navarrese branch, was vice-chancellor to Charles, Prince of Viana. He attempted to reconcile Charles with his father, John II; the latter thanked him by appointing him to his Council. In the palace of Pedro de Sada, of the Aragonese branch, in Sos (see SOS DEL REY CATÓLICO), Ferdinand —later known as ‘the Catholic’— was born on 10 March 1452, son of John II of Aragon and Juana Enríquez, his second wife.
In 1691, Charles II of Spain granted a member of this family the title of Marquess of Campo-Real.
- GARCÉS ABADIA, Máximo: Sos del Rey Católico (Zaragoza, Edilesa, León, 2004)