Nolasco is a surname of French origin.
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Etymology
The first member of the Nolasco family was Guillaume de Nolasque, a Norman noble who participated in the siege of Nola, in southern Italy, in the eleventh century. Legend has it that, such was his bravery, that he was nicknamed by his fellows "Nolasque" or "Nolasc", which means, in the Italian-Norman medieval dialect, "the man of Nola". Guillaume later returned to Normandy and built the Nolasque castle, in Cotentin. He was the husband of Oremburge, a daughter of Serlo I of Hauteville, and had three sons: Geoffroy (1st sire of Vignats), Nicholas (canon in Rouen) and Roger (who stayed in Toulouse, and was the ancestor of saint Peter Nolasco).
1. France
The Nolasque were lords of Vignats and Verson, in Normandy. Aubert de Nolasque, a grandson of Guillaume, was lord of Castelnaudary, in Southern France. In the fifteenth century, Louis Albert de Nolasque, vice-admiral of France, was Baron of Léon, in Brittany.
2. Spain
The Nolasco came to Spain in the thirteenth century, with Saint Peter. His nephew, Jacques (or Jaime) became Viscount of Ardales, near Málaga. In the twentieth century, the Nolasco became marquesses of Torre Soto de Briviesca and Bonanza.
3. England
Sir Raynault de Nolasque, a French noble, came to England during the reign of Edward III, and married Isolda of Audley, a niece of the first Earl of March, Lord Roger Mortimer, the famous lover of queen Isabella of France. One of their descendants was George Leopold Nolasque (born 1818), builder of Nolasque Manor, in Wiltshire, and personal friend of Queen Victoria.
Some notable members
Javier Nolasco was born in 1973 in Cuernavaca Morelos, Mexico/General Contractor. Seferino Nolasco was born in 1948 in Guerrero Mexico(contractor