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Requiao is a topynymic surname. It was taken from a place where its bearers lived.

Long before the Porto Cale county training (Port of Galle), resulting in the great kingdom of Portugal, existed there, more or less in the center of the geographical territory of Portugal today, the human angle to the horse, a Christian territory Swabian Galicia. This small Christian kingdom had a king, Christian in its old spelling Rícila, Rékila, or, as they prefer others Requila in the fourth century or V. The subjects of that kingdom, that is, residents of the area of that little kingdom received the requilães name, or in its most Latinized form "requillanis" finally, citizens or subjects of Requila kingdom;so put the Requiãos are Swabians come from many families of Swabian origin, pre-Portuguese, therefore, and trainers, as an ethnic group, in a very small scale of the Portuguese people. For a Christian this kingdom (Requiário son of Requila, was the first king suevo to convert to 448) beyond the usual construction characteristics of the century villages, was there also a church that survived according to several authors until November 2 1942 when it was consumed by fire. In it, the Church Requiao array, overlapped several styles, from early Romanesque even the most complicated rococo slips. Another was built in its place, and became the Chapel of requiem, a Latin word which means rest, or death (Requiem Mass = Mass celebrated for the souls of the deceased) which confused to many researchers, the origin Requiao's name, linking it with the origin of the Chapel of requiem or the word requiem. the Swabians are Germans.