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Nobility: Cavalieri
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Language of the text: Italiano

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Antica famiglia lombarda, di chiara ed avita virtù, propagatasi, nel corso dei secoli, in diverse regioni d'Italia. L'origine di tal cognominizzazione, al dir di illustri genealogisti, andrebbe ricercata nel toponimo Sant'Angelo in Formis, frazione del comune Capua, probabilmente, luogo natio di un, oggi ignoto, capostipite. In ogni modo, tal casato, verosimilmente, venne fregiato del cavalierato, in seguito ai fedeli servigi, prestati ai Visconti, di un Rinaldo Formis, milite sotto i vessilli del signore di Pesaro, Carlo Malatesta, al quale Filippo Maria Visconti, nel 1426, affidò il comando, per contrastare Venezia. Ma, d'altronde, la famiglia, sempre, riuscì a distinguersi, grazie agli elevati personaggi, a cui diede i natali. Tra questi, ricordiamo: Raimondo, ingegnere camerale in Milano, vivente nel 1432; Carlo Maria, consigliere ducale, vivente nel 1449, in Milano; Marco, cancelliere di Casa Sforza, vivente in Milano, nel 1453; cav. Antonio, dottore in "utroque jure", vivente in Lodi, nel 1489; P. Cristiano,

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