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According to Scorza, the family is known as Chiavari where he lived since about 1100; its members occupied honorable offices in Genoa (Genoese noble families); Guasco di Bisio counts the A. among the families that in the XII century. under the marquises of Vasto they constituted the noble municipality of Albenga then subject to the Rep. of Genoa, and so the Crollalanza which however errs attributing to them the lordship of Giaglione because it is another A. family that participated under the dominion of the Counts of Savoy in the first half of 1100 to the constitution of the Signorile Municipality of Susa; it had several fiefdoms in the Homonym Valley and then changed its name from A. in Rome (Diz. Feud., 29 and 808); the annals of the Caffaro cite the passage of the Solius river near Antioch during the first crusade in the East in 1097 of four people including an Anselmo A. in September 1146 the Genoese promise the Count of Barcelona to intervene in the siege of Tortona: among those who swore there are Aschieri, Ascheri, Aschero, Aschiero (Grillo, Orig. local, and surnames of the Rep. of Genoa, 30 and others citations on pages 37 and 53). From the Ligurian stock, nuclei detached in the first half of the century. XII they branched out in the Tortonese, in the Astese and further north in Casale and Vercelli: already in 1134 we find in Marengo an Ascherio, not better identified, heads in progress on August 27 where Ugone de Bona of said place offers himself to the monastery of S, Pietro in the golden sky of Pavia (Cartario Aless. I, 50); in Tortona, where they already resided, they had to undergo the siege of Federico Barbarossa as the Willow informs us that after the surrender, which imposed