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Last name: Catapano

Dossier: 23491
Type:Heraldic dossiers
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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili - Cavalieri
Nobles in:Italia
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Catapano


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Nobility crown CatapanoAntica e nobile famiglia del Regno di Napoli, di chiara ed avita virtù, propagatasi, nel corso dei secoli, in diverse regioni d'Italia. L'origine di tal cognominizzazione, al dir di autorevoli genealogisti, andrebbe ricercata nel termine, di matrice bizantina, "Catapanus" (= Prefetto di una provincia dell'Impero) ossia sovrintendente, guardia daziaria al controllo di alcuni territori nel senso di ufficiale addetto all'esazione delle multe ma anche Giudice nelle liti civili, in riferimento, probabilmente, alla carica sostenuta da un oggi ignoto, capostipite. Tuttavia, per dover di completezza ed amor di verità, non possiamo tacere come, seconda la tradizione, per quanto mista a leggenda, rinvenga il capostipite della famiglia proprio in quel Michele Abidelas, il quale fu, probabilmente, il primo catapano d'Italia, come evincesi da un atto del 975. In ogni modo, tal casato, secondo quanto ci viene tramandato, venne anche fregiato del cavalierato, in seguito alla partecipazione, sotto i vessilli aragonesi, connotata da ...

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Coat of arms of family Catapano

1. Coat of arms of family: Catapano
Language of the text: Italiano

Partito d'oro e di porpora al leone rampante dell'uno nell'altro, sul tutto un fascia d'argento attraversante, caricata di una stella (5) del primo.


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