Origin of Rosell

Recorded in over two hundred spelling forms including Rose of England, Flanders, and Germany, Larose and Roz of France, Ross of Scotland, Royce, Roset, and Rising of England, Rosa and Rosi of Italy and Spain, Rosone and Rosetti of Italy, Rosanski of Poland, and many, many, more, this is a European medieval surname. It is ancient being of pre-Christian Roman or Hebrew origins. It derives from the ancient Latin word 'rosa' meaning 'the rose', or the Hebrew 'royze' of the same meaning. It can be said to have four possible but ultimately overlapping sources.

These are that the name is either topographical for a person who lived at a place where wild roses grew, or a metonymic for a rose grower, or it may have been residential for somebody who lived at a place with the sign of the rose, an inn perhaps, or that it may descend from the early baptismal name 'Rosa or Rose'. The name as a baptismal name only, is recorded in the famous Domesday Book of England in the year 1086, but the surname as a hereditary name is some two hundred years later. Early examples of the name recordings taken from authentic medieval charters, registers, and rolls, include: Rudolf Rosse of Basel, Switzerland, in 1283, Richard Roys, in the Subsidy Rolls of Suffolk, England, in 1327, and Hugh Rosesone, in the rolls of Staffordshire in 1342. Other examples are those of Christof Rosa of Friedberg, Germany, in 1579, and Anna Russon, who married Evan Daniell at St Dunstans in the East, Stepney, London, in 1628. Henry Rose, the Baron Strathnairn (1801 - 1885) served in Syria, India and Ireland with the British army and was appointed Field-Marshal in 1877. The first recorded spelling of the family name anywhere in the world is believed to be that of Baldungas Rose of Mainz, Germany, in 1283. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop", often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

Several authors say that the Rossells originated in Empordá, a Catalan region in the province of Gerona that includes towns in the judicial districts of Figueres, La Bisbal, Gerona and Olot.

Branches of this lineage settled in the cities of Palma de Mallorca, Tarragona, Orihuela, and the surname spread throughout Catalonia, Valencia and Aragon. Another branch went to France and resided in Paris.

The Rossells intervened in important companies against the Morisma. Gilberto Rossell went to Majorca when it was conquered by King Jaime I of Aragon or shortly after, as it appears in several emphyteutic instruments of that time that he signed as a witness, in particular the donation that Nuño Sánchez granted on the 2nd of the Kalends of July 1239. in favor of the Cistercian monastery on that island.

Mossèn Jaime Febrer mentions in his Trovas: Guillermo Rossell was knighted by the aforementioned Aragonese monarch as a reward "for the bizarre actions that he carried out as a brave Spaniard in Orihuela (Alicante) against the rebels who wanted to hand over the city to the Moors of Granada, which Rossell learned, warned the residents to assassinate the traitors and convinced of this, although they killed many, they could not kill everyone because they had fled, fearing their ruin".

Pedro Rosell, on July 18, 1237, received from King D. Jaime I, two jovadas in Campanar and an orchard and houses in the city of Valencia.

Mateo Rosell, his brother Arnaldo Rosell and his son Andrés, and Marco Rosell, were generous, natives of the city of Oriola (Orihuela), in the 16th century.

In the Kingdom of Valencia, it had solar houses in Torrent, its owners, Pere and Pere Rossell, documented in 1248; in Lliria, its owner Bernat de Rossell, in 1249; in Borriana, its owner Domingo Rossell, in 1256-1274; in Castelló de la Plana, its owner in Rossell (vicari), in 1291-1342; in Ademús, its owners Arnalt and Pero Rossell, in 1379; in Almassora, its owner Matheu Rossell, in 1379; in Valencia, its owners Luquet (Ferrer) and Thomàs (corretger) Rossell, in 1306-1316; in Morella, its owner Pere Rossell, in 1306-1345; in Burjassot, its owner in Rossell, in 1379; in Cabanes, its owner Jaume Rossell, in 1379; in Valencia, their owners in, in (tender), Bernat, Domingo, Gregori (aluder), Guillem (merchant), Jacme, Nicolau, Ramon, Rossell and na Rosella, in 1354-1371; in Ador, its owner Rossell, in 1373; in Camí St. Julià (Horta València), its owner Ramon Rossell, in 1379; in Cervera del Maestrat, its owners Arnau, Dominguet, Guianó, Guiamó, Ramon y na Dolça Rossell, in 1379; in El Puig, its owners Antoni and Guiamó Rossell, in 1379; in Marxalenes (Horta València), its owner in Rossell, in 1379; in Massamagrell, its owner Bernat Rossell, in 1379; in Montcada, its owners Bernat and Guillem, in 1379; in Traiguera, its owner in Rossella, in 1379; in Morella, its owner Miquel Rossell, in 1396; in Oriola, its owners Alfonso, Arnau (cavaller), Francesc, Marco (cavaller) and Miró (cavaller) Rossell, in 1416-1458; in Alzira, its owners Jacme and Pere (teixidor) Rossell, in 1399; in Sueca, its owner Rossell, in 1399; in Xàtiva, its owner in Rossell (hostaler), in 1421.

In Pau Rosell, notary, citizen of Valencia, delegate for the receipt of taxes from ecclesiastics, documented on September 25, 1451.

The discreet In Pau Rosell, notary, justice of the 300 salaries, during the year 1451, in the year 1454.

Messer Jaume Rosell, Civil Justice adviser in the year 1465, and Criminal Justice adviser in the year 1468.

Micer Gaspar Rosell, adviser to the Civil Justice in the year 1516.

Guillermo Rossell was in the conquest of Oriola (Orihuela), in the year 1239, and was knighted by the king d. James I of Aragon.

Vicente Rossell, a citizen of Xátiva, received the Privilege of Chivalry from King D. Alfonso V of Aragon on August 3, 1452.

Mosen Lois Rossell; Messer Rossell's widow with hers, her son Messer Rossell, appear in the strikeout of the military branch of the city of Valencia in the year 1512.

Alfonso Rossell, Molins' son-in-law; Beatriu Rossell widow and her children, heirs of Alfonso Rossell; Damiata Ayora, widow and her children, heirs of March Rossell, appear in the label of the military arm of the city of Oriola (Orihuela) in the year 1513. The widow of Berthomeu Rossell; the widow of March Rossell, lived in the Oriolense neighborhood of Santa Justa in the year 1510.

Luis Rossell Desprats, Rocamora, Ruiz y Molins, a native of Oriola (Orihuela), knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, entered in 1663. He was the son of José Rossell Desprats y Ruiz and Isabel Rocamora y Molins

Alfonso Rossell y Rocamora, Molins y Ruiz, Lord of Benejúzar y Tell, Knight of the Order of Calatrava, in the year 1651. He was the son ofJosé Rossell y Ruiz, born in Oriola (Orihuela), Knight of the Order of Alcántara in 1627, and Isabel Rocamora y Molins, born in Oriola (daughter of the 1st Marquis of Rafal); grandson of Jaime Rossell y Desprat, Lord of Benejúzar, Bayle General of Alicante, and of Isabel Ruiz y Ruiz, a native of Oriola (Orihuela); great-grandson of Arnaldo Rossell y Soler, a native of Oriola (Orihuela) and Inés Desprat y Ruiz.

José Rosell y Ruiz, a knight of the Military Order of Calatrava, documented in the year 1648, was the son of Juan Rosell and Isabel Ruiz (both were cousins).

Luis Rosell y Rocamora, a native of Oriola (Orihuela), Knight of the Order of Santiago, in the year 1663. Commander of Mallén in the year 1673. He was the son of José Gaspar Rosell y Ruiz, II Lord of Benejúzar, and of Isabel Rocamora y Molins, daughter of the Marquis of Rafal.

José Jaime Rosell y Desprats, Lord of Benejúzar, of the Council of S.M., Knight of the Order of Alcántara (son of Jaime Rosell y Masquefa, Lord of Benejúzar, of the Council of S.M. and Bayle de Oriola (Orihuela), and of Isabel Ruiz, a native of Oriola (Orihuela), was married to Isabel Rocamora, a native of Oriola (Orihuela), they were the parents of Arnaldo Rosell y Rocamora, born in Oriola (Orihuela), married to Ana Roca de Togores y Rocamora, born in Oriola (Orihuela), and parents of Antonio Rosell y Roca, born in Oriola (Orihuela) in 1686, Knight Seminarian of the College of Nobles of Valencia, on September 22, 1699.

Jaime Rosell y Masquefa, lord of Benejúzar, Bayle General of Alicante, knight of the Order of Alcántara. He married in 1598, with Isabel Ruiz, a native of Oriola (Orihuela).

Gaspar Rosell y Ruiz, born in Oriola (Orihuela), Bayle General of Alicante, Lord of Benejúzar, Knight of the Order of Alcántara in 1627. He was the son of Jaime Rosell y Desprat and Isabel Ruiz. He married in Oriola (Orihuela), in 1st nuptials with Nicolasa Molins; and in 2nd in the year 1655, with Isabel Rocamora y Molins, born in Oriola (Orihuela).

In the last third of the 16th century, Onofre Rossell, gentleman and attorney general, who married Doña Oriente de Gassol, and they procreated Onofre Rossell y Gassol, also a gentleman and attorney general of Tarragona, belonged to the branch of the city of Tarragona. , who married Doña Isabel de Homedes Cella.