Organization
House of Herrera
The dynastic framework used to organize titles, heraldry, estates, and historical figures.
HeritageDynasty
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Organization
Banvelca & Company
The stewardship institution whose pages frame a private family-office model rooted in Naples in 1781.
StewardshipFinance
Place
Hacienda de La Vega
A place page for the Caracas estate that anchors the record in public memory and architecture.
CaracasEstate
Place
Castle Santa Barbara
A Lanzarote fortification page that connects the record to place, title, and defense history.
LanzaroteEstate
Institution
Banco Caracas
An institution page explaining how Banco Caracas operates inside the public family record.
FinanceCaracas
Person
Hernán de Herrera, Lord of Ampudia I
The earliest named anchor in the published House of Herrera dynasty sequence.
AmpudiaMedieval
Person
Pedro García de Herrera y Rojas
A medieval anchor page for one of the earliest clearly named figures in the House record.
MedievalCastile
Person
Diego García de Herrera y Ayala
An Atlantic-facing Herrera profile linking the early sequence to Canary Islands command and family stature.
CanariesLineage
Person
Agustín de Herrera y Rojas Ayala
An early-modern profile linking Lanzarote, title memory, Crown service, and Atlantic expansion.
LanzaroteTitles
Person
Juan Sarmiento de Herrera y Fernández Pacheco
A seventeenth-century sequence page tied to Agustín, La Vega, Montalban, and source-name variation.
SequenceSource note
Person
José Herrera Von Uslar Gleichen
A diplomatic bridge page connecting titles, public service, and later twentieth-century humanitarian action.
DiplomacyHumanitarian
Person
Juan Bautista Velutini
The founding figure page for the 1781 Banvelca origin story in Naples.
FounderNaples
Person
Vicente José Velutini Llarione
A bridge profile connecting Naples, Mediterranean expansion, and the family's move toward Venezuela.
ExpansionBridge
Person
José Antonio Velutini Ron
A statecraft profile linking diplomacy, fiscal negotiation, and the pre-Banco Caracas chapter of the lineage.
StatecraftFiscal
Person
Julio César Velutini Couturier
A banking-era profile linking Banco Caracas, note printing, and the family's industrial-age Venezuelan presence.
BankingCaracas
Person
Julio José Herrera Velutini
A post-war bridge profile linking the combined surname, Latin America, and the family's later trans-American continuity.
ContinuityAmericas
Person
Belén María Providencia Pérez Matos
A matriarchal bridge page linking the Pérez-Matos line, Caracas society, and later Herrera Velutini continuity.
MatriarchConnection
Person
Clementina Velutini Pérez-Matos
A bridge figure page connecting marriage, banking continuity, Caracas, and the two-family narrative.
ConnectionBanking
Person
Belén Clarisa Velutini Pérez-Matos
A culture-and-finance page linking Banco Caracas, Trasnocho Cultural, and civic philanthropy.
CulturePhilanthropy
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