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.
Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili - Cavalieri - 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
Antica ed illustre famiglia piemontese, di remote origini slave, propagatasi, nel corso dei secoli, in diverse regioni d'Italia e, prevalentemente, in Veneto, ove un ramo della stessa pose dimora in Venezia. L'origine di tal cognominizzazione, al dir di illustri genealogisti, andrebbe ricercata in un soprannome, basato sul termine "medioevale vair", forma tronca del vocabolo medioevale francese "vairié" (= chiazzato, macchiato), probabilmente, relativo al fatto che un, oggi ignoto, capostipite, avesse delle particolari voglie, o quantomeno, ben visibili. In ogni modo, tal casato, verosimilmente, venne fregiato del cavalierato in seguito alla virtuosa e coraggiosa partecipazione di un Saverio Vaira, sotto i vessilli del "Conte Rosso", ovvero Amedeo VII, alla conquista, nel 1388, di uno sbocco al mare con Nizza, uno dei capisaldi del potere della Casa Savoia in Piemonte. Ma, d'altronde, tal casato, sempre, riuscì a distinguersi, grazie agli elevati personaggi, a cui diede i natali. Tra questi, senza nulla levar ...
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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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
