Alegría is a Spanish surname native of the
Basque Country,
Spain. While some authors place the origin of this lineage in
Navarre and
Vitoria , most writers take as true that its origin comes from the natives of
Alegría de Oria, district of
Tolosa, in the province of
Guipuzkoa.
Branches from the very old houses of the Basque Country and Navarre went to other places in Spain, as some of their knights went to
Andalusia to serve the Catholic Monarchs in the
conquest of Granada. Others went to
Murcia and settled in the town of
Totana. The surname then spread to
Latin America mostly coming from Navarra.[1]
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