Origin of Loris

In Limousin this surname is spelled Lloris, whose first syllable "llor" means laurel. It is probably the same surname that Zurita writes Lóriz in Los Anales de Aragón. He had a solar house in Ascaso (Huesca).

Diego Ramírez de Avalos de la Piscina collects this surname as Navarra. Others point out that it comes from the Principality of Catalonia.

In Asturias there is a place called Loris, which may be related to this lineage.

The knights of this family were lords in the Kingdom of Valencia of Alfarrasí (place of Moors), La Torreta (Torre de Loris or Lloris, place of Moors), Pujol (place of Moors), Sallent or Sellent (place of Moorish)...

Don Sancho Sánchez de Loris, received, in the year 1240, a tower or rapita located next to the sea and the river Guadalaviar "justa mare et Guadalabiar et dicitur Rapita orationis".

Don Ferrando Petri de Loris, a rich-man from Aragon, came in the year 1238 to the war in Valencia and was awarded the place of Torreta where he established his residence.

Bernat Lloris was a resident of Alcaissia (Valencia) in 1379. Esteve de Lloris was a resident of Alzira (Valencia) in 1399. Bernat de Lloris was a resident of Alcudia de Carlet (Valencia) in 1337. Galceran de Lloris and Mossén Luys de Lloris were unsanctioned residents of Xátiva (Valencia) in 1427. Mosen Alfonso Lloris was Jury of the city of Valencia in 1337.

Mosén García de Loriz (Loris or Lloris), Lord of the castle and town of Sallent, documented in the year 1362.

Mosen Loris, military man, Lord of the Tower (Torre de Loris), must pay 100 solidos for the hosts and cavalcades ordered by King Juan II against the Infante Jaime of Aragon, in the year 1477.

In Johan Loris de Pomar, lord of Pujol, in the municipality of Alzira (Valencia), he appears in the «Relació del focs valencians del año 1510 en las tachas del arm militar».

Doña Feliciana Lloris y Villarrasa, daughter of the lords of Alfarrasí, was married to Don Pedro Ruiz de Liori y Villacampa, 5th Baron of Alcalalí, in the year 1669.

Alonso Loris was Commander of Ares, of the Order of Montesa, in 1380.

They were Knights of the Order of Montesa: Felipe Loris, Commander of Vilafames and Alcalá de Xivert, Governor of the Maestrazgo, in 1510; and Luis Loris, Commander of Castielfabib, in 1490.

Martín Pedro de Loris, a neighbor of Marcuello, with a family home in Ascaso, obtained an infancy certificate before the Court of the Higher Justice of Aragon in June 1325.

Francisco Galcerán de Lloris y de Borja, born in Valencia, Elector Bishop of Terni in 1498, Bishop of Elna in 1499-1506, Royal Counsellor, Archbishop of Trani in 1503-1506, Patriarch of Constantinople in 1503-1506, Abbot of Santa María de Ripoll in 1506, he was elevated to the dignity of Cardinal of the Catholic Church by His Holiness Pope Alexander VI on May 31, 1503, taking the dictation of Santa María la Nueva. He was empowered by the Ecclesiastical Arm in the Cortes of the Principality of Catalonia, in 1503. He died in 1506. He was the son of Pedro Jofre de Lloris, Doncel de Valencia, and Isabel de Borja y Navarro de Alpicat, from the family of the Calixto Popes. III and Alexander VI.

Juan Dimas de Lloris, native of Valencia, Canon of Barcelona and Vich, Regent of the Royal and Supreme Council of Aragon, Attorney for Juan de Tormo, Bishop of Vich, in 1553, Abbot of Sant Feliu de Guixols in 1560- 1572, Bishop of Urgell in 1572-1576, Royal Advisor, Bishop of Barcelona in 1576-1598, Chancellor of the Principality of Catalonia in 1576-1582 and President of the Royal and Supreme Council of Aragon in 1582-1598, he was empowered by the Ecclesiastical Arm in the Cortes of the Principality of Catalonia, in 1553 and 1585. He died in 1598. He belonged to the family of Cardinal Francisco Galcerán de Lloris y de Borja, previously mentioned.

García Lloris y Agramunt, a native of Alcalá de Xivert (Castellón), religious, Rector of Culla in 1615, of Xert in 1631 and Prior of Cervera in 1635, entered the Order of Montesa as a religious in 1611. He died in 1647 He was the son of Bautista Lloris and Paula Agramunt and paternal grandson of García Lloris and Jerónima Aliaga.