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Nobility: Lords - Nobles - Barons
Nobles in:Italy (Campania - Sicily)
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Alte und sehr adlige italienische Familie aus dem Königreich beider Sizilien, von klarer und angestammter Tugend, die sich im Laufe der Jahrhunderte weltweit verbreitet hat. Der Überlieferung zufolge stammt sie von einem Edelmann aus Capua namens Francesco ab, der Sekretär von König Carlo Lo Zoppo und zur Zeit König Roberts Gouverneur der Stadt Sessa war. Zur Zeit Alfons von Kastilien zog die Familie nach Sizilien und ließ sich in Palermo und Messina nieder. Dieses adlige Haus besaß zahlreiche Lehen, darunter: die Herrschaft Aliano mit ihrer Burg, die Herrschaft Calanna mit ihren Bauernhäusern, das Landgut Fiumara di Mura, das Landgut Lo Fegotto. Es besaß auch das Steueramt von Palermo. Im Laufe der Zeit hat sich diese Familie auch durch die hervorragenden Vertreter ausgezeichnet. Aus unserem heraldischen Archiv: Francesco, Prätorianerrichter 1476–77 sowie Ratsherr und Prothonotar von Palermo im Jahr 1489; Giacomo, Richter am Stadtgericht in Messina 1515-16; Agostino, Statthalter der königlichen Kammer ...
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When you buy a heraldic document a new accurate analysis of the heraldic research will be performed by an expert heraldist and the document will be written in Italian or English.
The coat of arms will be checked and, if necessary, redesigned in strict compliance with the heraldic rules by our experts.
BlazonDe Francesco
1. Coat of arms of family: De Francesco
Language of the text: Italiano
Per fesse; 1st. azure, a dolphin argent swimming on a sea of the same fluctuating sable, surmounted by an eagle displayed crowned or in the ancient style; 2nd. or, on three bendlets sinister gules a fesse of the same.
Sources: "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti", compiled by Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edited by "la direzione del giornale araldico", Pisa 1888; "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap - Deuxième èdition refondue et augmentée".
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