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: Conti
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
La famiglia, fu tra le antiche ed onorate di Modena. Se, come vuolsi, originaria da Bologna, le memorie risalirebbero al 994, nel quale anno assieme ai Boccadiferro fondarono un giuspatronato nell'Abbazia di S. Maria in Strada, presso il ponte di Reno. Ercole fu capitano al servizio di Carlo V, e alla Spagna servirono pure Annibale, morto in Amiens l'anno 1597 e Paolo; come per la Francia militò Andrea, capitano di grande valore. Maggior grido e fortune raggiunse Giovanni Battista, il quale, ai servigi del duca Alessandro de' Medici, governò per lui la città di Penne nel Napoletano e per il papa Clemente VII fu Luogotenente in Benevento. Avendo di poi accompagnato Caterina de Medici che andava in isposa ad Enrico II di Francia, ivi si trattenne fino alla morte (1571) con la carica insigne di Mastro della Casa Reale. I nipoti di Giovanni Battista, Ercole, Ippolito, Iacopo e Francesco, chiamati ...
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