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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili
Nobles in:Italia
The country or region of the dossier mainly refers to the places where the family was ascribed to the nobility and may be different from those of residence
Fu delle prime che popolarono Alessandria, e venne registrata fra le ghibelline del comune. Questa famiglia non è che un ramo di quella dei Merlani; ed il suo nome deriva da ciò che uno dei Merlani essendo stato messo a custodire un castello, fu poi chiamato Castellano dei Merlani, e la sua discendenza assunse in appresso questo titolo. Furono i C. tenacissimi capi della fazione ghibellina, ed ebbero favori dal conte Filippo di Savoia e dall'imperatore Arrigo III. Giovan-Marco, distinto giureconsulto, fu nel 1670 nominato ambasciatore di Alessandria alla corte di Madrid: Paolo, senatore di Milano; Paolo-Maria, guerriero ed uomo di Stato fu governatore di Nizza; altro Paolo-Maria si distinse nella guerra di Fiandra, di Ungheria e del Piemonte, e nel 1614 fu governatore di Romagnano. ...
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.
BlazonCastellani Merlani
Coat of arms of family
Language of the text: Italiano
Palato d'argento e di rosso; col capo di rosso ad un drago d'oro passante.
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The Heraldic Traces are dossiers made by an A.I. useful as a starting point for researchers and passionate heraldists and confirm that there is information to work on and it is possible to order a heraldic document.
Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families
