Last name

Caranza

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The Caranza family is very ancient and noble, originally from Sicily; the names of its components are found above all in land and house purchase contracts. This illustrious lineage includes characters of high virtues, but the shortage of the writings in those ancient centuries deprives us of the noblest curiosities that could be desired. The commendator GB of Crollalanza reports the blazon of this family in the volumes of his historical blazon dictionary of the noble and notable Italian families. Right weapon: Quartered: in the first and fourth of red with silver shell; in the second and third silver of the black eagle. According to the historian Diligenti who in his "History of illustrious Italian families, by the care and expense of the publisher", published in Florence, we find that this family is of pure Italian origin, scattered in various cities. From the work "Collection of the most illustrious and noble families that once existed and that still flourish in Italy, taken from the Heraldic Theater published in Lodi in 1841, he mentions that the family originally from Sicily, despite the oblivion in which he fell, supported the tests to obtain the nobility in his city. A Giovanni gentil'huomo clearly emerged in Sicily, who gave himself to the military services of Emperor Frederick II, having enjoyed first the greatest loads of his country.

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