{"id":9,"date":"2026-01-12T17:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pazo-chaioso.com\/wp26\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:40:07","slug":"historia-del-pazo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pazo-chaioso.com\/wp26\/en\/historia-del-pazo\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of the Pazo"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We owe the vast majority of the information on the history of the pazo to the efforts and kindness of the historian and author Mr Xos\u00e9 Ricardo Rodr\u00edguez P\u00e9rez:<\/p>

It is a place in Maceda, situated below the castle to the south: a stretch of land or valley, the name of which derives from Chaos de Maceda, Chaira, Cha\u00edza, Cha\u00ednza, Sainza, etc. A \u2018chairo\u2019 or \u2018chaioso\u2019 place, that is to say, flat. The Counts of Maceda were related to many families: Sotelo, Feijoo, Gaioso, etc., and likewise to the Counts of Monterrey, as well as to the lords of Chaioso, a house situated below their castle, as their surname, N\u00f3voa, suggests. I would add that this lineage originated in the place of the same name: N\u00f3boa or N\u00f3voa, parish of San Esteban, judicial district of Ribadavia. This lineage, now united with the Y\u00e1\u00f1ez family, settled in the Alta Limia under Pedro Ya\u00f1ez de Novoa y Parada, and others in the Americas. He details this, starting from the Latin and tracing the etymological line back to Chaioso. Pages 463 and 464 of the aforementioned work *A LIMIA; VAL DA ANTELA E VAL DO MEDO*.<\/p>

The coat of arms of the Alpendre (17th century)<\/h2>

We know that the coat of arms on the fa\u00e7ade of the Alpendre dates from the second half of the 17th century, a fact confirmed by Professor Florencio Rodr\u00edguez-Montero.<\/p>

According to his explanation, the coat of arms shows, in the top left corner, two goats perched on an oak tree, the arms of the Sotelo family. In the top right corner are two wolves inside a boat on the water, the arms of the Cad\u00f3rnigas family, a family directly related to the Castle of Maceda. Finally, at the bottom are the three bands of the Rivera family.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The coat of arms above the entrance to the courtyard<\/h2>

The coat of arms on the entrance gate to the courtyard, apparently almost two centuries younger than the one mentioned above, features the Feijoo coat of arms in the centre, the Novoa coat of arms top left, the five bleeding wolf heads of the Mosquera family top right, the lizards beneath a slab of the Losada family bottom left, and finally the Salgado coat of arms bottom right. We are grateful for this information to the historian Mr Xos\u00e9 Ricardo Rodr\u00edguez P\u00e9rez; here is a link to the list of his publications.<\/a><\/p>

The manor house chapel (first mentions and permits)<\/h2>

The manor house chapel appears to be first mentioned in 1735: MACEDA. Lugar de Chaioso 1735. Requested by Don Miguel de Losada, lawyer at the Royal Court of Galicia, and his wife Do\u00f1a Luisa Feijoo y Sotomayor. For their homes in the village of Chaioso, parish of San Pedro de Maceda. Granted by Pope Clement XII on 1 October 1735. On 21 June 1736, it was recognised by the parish priest of Santa Mari\u00f1a de Asadur. \u2018There, set apart from the hustle and bustle of the people, is a very clean and tidy oratory with its altarpiece and the image of the Most Holy Christ, and the necessary decorations, both of which are very decent and neat, so that the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass may be celebrated there…\u2019 (AH OURENSE 450\/14).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Having been widowed, Do\u00f1a Luisa remarried Don Francisco Saavedra y Mosera, mayor of the district of Maceda; and, having set aside a better room for the oratory by extending the house in Chaioso, they both\u2026 Following Do\u00f1a Luisa\u2019s death, her children received a new charter for the oratory from Pope Clement XIII on 23 June 1764, authorising the Bishop of Ourense to celebrate Mass there (AHDOURENSE. 6104\/13).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Document from 1768 regarding the renewal of the permit<\/h2>

Regarding the chapel, we have found, also thanks to the tireless efforts of Mr Xos\u00e9 Ricardo Rodr\u00edguez P\u00e9rez, a document dating from 1768:<\/p>

“CHAIOSO, application for renewal of the licence for Masses in the chapel of this manor house by Don Francisco Saavedra y Mosquera, Mayor of the Jurisdiction of Maceda, as husband of Do\u00f1a Luisa Feijoo Sotomayor, with full consent (granted to), reports to Your Grace that the aforementioned, being married in her first marriage, Oratory Permit for her family in the houses they owned in this Diocese, having obtained the necessary licences beforehand. A Licence was granted to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the Oratory built in the dwelling we own in the village of Chaioso, Parish of Maceda, and as we have extended said house, it seemed best to us to move to another new room therein, and so that the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass may continue, we humbly request that Your Grace grant permission for it to be consecrated and issue the necessary licence, for which purpose we enclose the aforementioned Buleto and the licence previously issued, which we hope to receive).”<\/p>

Signatories to the application<\/h2>

The application is signed by Don Jacobo, Don Joseph, Don Bernardo, Don Francisco, Don Thomas, Don Teodoro, Don Phelipe, Don Clemente and Do\u00f1a Juana Mosquera Feijo\u00f3 Sotomaior, siblings and residents of Chaioso, in San Pedro de Maceda, and Don Francisco Saavedra y Mosquera.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Pazo and its legends<\/h2>\nAnother interesting fact is that the Count of Maceda, Alonso de Lanz\u00f3s Andrade y Novoa, son of Aldonza de Nova, Lady of Maceda, born in 1540, who lived in the castle situated some 400 metres above, had the manor house built for an illegitimate son, which would add some 100 years to the manor house\u2019s history. And let\u2019s not forget the legend that there is a tunnel between the manor house and the castle, inhabited by a giant snake \u2013 something we have not yet been able to verify.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Last residents before the renovation<\/h2>\nThe last people to live in the manor house before we began renovating the building were Mr Ram\u00f3n Villarino de Sa\u00e1 and his wife, Mrs Araceli Anta Novoa. According to Wikipedia and our research, Ram\u00f3n Villarino de Sa\u00e1 was editor-in-chief of El Eco Antelano (1911\u20131912). After completing his law degree in Madrid, he gave lectures at the Ateneo de Madrid. He then returned to Ourense, where he worked as a state lawyer and edited the then-newspaper \u2018El Diario de Orense\u2019, apparently also contributing to \u2018La Centuria\u2019 and \u2018La Regi\u00f3n\u2019, amongst others. During the Republic, he was a member of the Provincial Committee of Popular Action in Ourense and, in the 1936 general election, was elected as a Member of Parliament for Ourense for the CEDA. After the Civil War, in which \u2013 unlike others \u2013 he interceded on behalf of some local residents, he served as a lawyer for the Bishopric of Ourense, where he died in 1959.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Restoration<\/h2>\nIn 2006, we bought the Pazo with the aim of restoring the building to its former glory. We would be delighted to welcome you so you can see the result for yourself.\n\nHere<\/a><\/span> we will share several before-and-after images; to see more in detail, here<\/a><\/span> are photos of the work, 12 years of dawn-to-dusk labour.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

La gran mayor\u00eda de la informaci\u00f3n sobre la historia del pazo debemos al esfuerzo y la amabilidad del historiador y autor Sr. Xos\u00e9 Ricardo Rodr\u00edguez P\u00e9rez: Es lugar de Maceda, a la baja del castillo por el Sur: terreno o vaguada, cuyo significado proviene de Chaos de Maceda, Chaira, Cha\u00edza, Cha\u00ednza, Sainza, etc. Lugar ‘chairo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pazo-chaioso.com\/wp26\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pazo-chaioso.com\/wp26\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pazo-chaioso.com\/wp26\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pazo-chaioso.com\/wp26\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pazo-chaioso.com\/wp26\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":179,"href":"https:\/\/www.pazo-chaioso.com\/wp26\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3816,"href":"https:\/\/www.pazo-chaioso.com\/wp26\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pazo-chaioso.com\/wp26\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}