TIL early European settlers with the surname Flórez (or Florez) held a higher social status in colonial America by claiming descent from the ancient Asturian-Leonese warrior line of King Fruela I, whose maternal grandfather, Pelagius, founded the Kingdom of Asturias and started the Reconquista.

TIL early European settlers with the surname Flórez (or Florez) held a higher social status in colonial America by claiming descent from the ancient Asturian-Leonese warrior line of King Fruela I, whose maternal grandfather, Pelagius, founded the Kingdom of Asturias and started the Reconquista.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florez

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