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The family surname was originally from the province of Bearn (France) presently Catalonia, Valencia and Aragon in Spain. Lineage branched into three ways. The first generations used Rocafort where it became Ricafort as time passed by.

In Catalonia the lineage swept the Ampurdan, territory comprising the towns of judicial districts of Figueras, La Bisbal, Girona and Olot, all of the province of Gerona, and also happened to the remaining Catalan.

It should be noted that in the provinces of Barcelona, ​​Lleida, Tarragona and Valencia there are several places called Rocafort, whose surname was perhaps, in ancient times, has any relationship with the lineage.

There are also, in Aragon, in the judicial district of Tamarite Bunk and province of Huesca, a village called Rocafort, which undoubtedly gave its name in ancient times the family of this surname, because in the Archive of the Crown of Aragon between the scrolls King Alfonso I of Aragon there are preserved, Arnaldo contains a script, Preceptor Holy Redeemer Hospital, Teruel, who with authority granted Bonet said Monarch of the Rocafort and his perpetual rulership over movable and immovable property they owned in the end of that village of Rocafort. Date 1188 years.

It follows from this that, in the twelfth century, had gone to the Rocafort Aragon. And for execution which is kept in the Municipal Archives of Huesca, it is known that they came from the village of Monen, the Lordship of Bearn, France, villa where from time immemorial lay, among other noble houses, Rocafort.

Reference: http://heraldicajavieralonso.jimdo.com/rocafort/