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.
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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Patrizi
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
Famiglia patrizia e dogale genovese, costituita dalla unione al principio del secolo XIV di alcune famiglie di Genova. Nel secolo XI la famiglia Della Volta, già cospicua, venendo, pare da Lerici, si trapiantò in Genova, dove subito salì alle maggiori cariche del comune. Il Crollalanza le assegna già nel secolo X parecchi feudi nel Genovese (Giornale Araldico XXIV, 260). A ogni modo fu considerata una delle antiche famiglie viscontili consolori di Genova, e nel secolo XII essa e la famiglia Da Castello erano le più potenti case di fazione imperiale nella città, in competizione, sovente sanguinosa, con la famiglia Avvocato di parte pontificia. Fin da quei tempi ebbero consoli del comune, arcivescovi della diocesi e altre alte cariche civili, militari ed ecclesiastiche. Possedevano in città la contrada intorno all'antica chiesa di San Torpète fino al "ponte dei Cattanei" nel porto. Sul portale di detta chiesa è una vecchia lapide, la ...
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.
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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
