Hello, and Welcome to Viva Villalobos!
The primary purpose of this site is to bring together as many individuals as possible who share the last name of Villalobos, or any of its variants such as Villa-Lobos, Villalovos, Villa-Lovos, etc.
If you are a Villalobos-type person, or are married to one, please feel free to add your name, what part of the world you live in, and any other information you wish to include.
As time goes by, I will be adding as many links to other Villalobos sites as I can. Please feel free to recommend yours....
The name Villalobos (which started, as far as I know, in a small village of that name in southern Spain several centuries ago) has by now spread worldwide, so I would like to offer a small challenge to anyone interested: can you provide a verifiable "Villalobos" who lived before the sixteenth century?
Here's the oldest reference to anyone named Villalobos that I have been able to find:
"[Prince] Philip's favorite pastime ... was to order the other boys to hold jousts, with burned candles for lances. Doctor Villalobos, one of the physicians of the royal family, put a stop to that, to the great displeasure of the Prince...." --Chapter 2, page 24, of "Philip II" by William Thomas Walsh (1937), Tan Books and Publishers, Inc., Rockford, Illinois.
Philip II was born May 21, 1527 and died September 13, 1598, so his physician, Dr. Villalobos, was probably at least twenty-five years older than the young prince, which places the good doctor's year of birth at somewhere around the year 1500.
Whether or not you are interested in the history of the name Villalobos, if you are a Villalobos yourself (or, like me, have a variation of the name's spelling), I would love to hear from you.
...And that's it for this blog's first entry. --Except for today's link: Daniela Mercury
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