Perhaps fromValence in France.
valencia (countable anduncountable,pluralvalencias)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for“valencia”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)
Borrowed fromLate Latinvalentia, fromLatinvalēns.