Coat of arms of Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, baron, count, marquess and duke of Caxias (the same Portuguese arms of the Silva, Coutinho, Lima, Brandão, Soromenho and Ferreira families). Also used by his father, the baron of Barra Grande, his uncles, the viscount of Majé and the baron of Suruí, and his brother, the viscount and count of Tocantins.
Archivo Nobiliarchico Brasileiro, of Rodolfo Smith de Vasconcelos and Jaime Smith de Vasconcelos (1918).
Tonyjeff, based on symbol of XIX century.