Pedrola
ZaragozaAragón
Toponym derived from the Latin anthroponym Petrula, diminutive of Petra ('stone') with locative suffix. It originally designates the Roman property of Petrula or of a Petra woman of the early medieval nobility.
Aragonese town documented from 1083 as property of the San Juan de la Peña monastery. Historical head of the County of Aranda (1493, Urrea lineage) and ducal residence of the Villahermosa. The 16th-century ducal palace, Plateresque with Renaissance galleries, houses the historical archive of the lineage.
Evolution of the name
- Petrula Latin 3rd–5th centuries
- Pedrola medieval Aragonese from the 11th century
Glossary
- Anthroponym
- A personal name, often used as the base of toponyms (Lucronius → Logroño, Sigerici → Castrojeriz, Sacavus → Sacavém).
- Diminutive
- A derived form indicating smaller size or affection, formed with suffixes such as -illo, -ito, -uelo, -ete. Substantivised plural diminutives abound in toponymy: Hornillos, Boadilla, Calzadilla, Comillas, Pradillos.
- Duchy of Villahermosa
- Spanish noble title created in 1476 by Ferdinand the Catholic for his uncle Alfonso of Aragón, natural son of John II of Aragón. The Villahermosa ducal house established its main residence in Pedrola in the 16th century and maintained the Aragonese territorial patrimony until the 19th century. Among its members stand out great art collectors, military men and politicians of the Spanish Baroque.
- Locative suffix
- A Castilian ending marking "place of" or "workshop where X is worked": -ería (panadería, herrería), -ero/-era (barquera, Itero "place of the road"). From the Latin -arium.
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