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Last name
Grisafi

Nobility: Nobles - Barons
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Language of the text: English

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Ancient and noble Sicilian family, of Greek origin, known as Grisafi or Crisafi, that has worldwide spread, over the centuries. The forefather traditionally attributed to the Crisafi family is the Byzantine general Giorgio Maniace (998-1043). In fact, the family took its name from his son, Crisafo, who was left with his wife Teopapa in Syracuse, because of his rebellion against the emperor Constantine IX Monomaco. This house has been noble in Messina and has owned a large number of fiefs and baronies. A Giorgio was "straticò" (= magistrate) of Messina in 1179; a Luca in 1230; a Tommaso in 1408; a Giovanni in 1422. Nicolò I Crisafi was knight of King Martin I of Sicily (1374 - 1409), from whom he obtained in 1392 the barony of Linguagrossa or Linguaglossa, in addition to the fief of Ramusali in Lentini, of Fiumefreddo in Sutera and he also was rational master of

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Or, a fesse azure between three fleu-de-lys of the same per fesse in chief and a bull's head gules in base.

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Tierced bendwise gules argent and sable, on the second a lion of the first.

Blazon of family Grisafi or Crisafi enobled in Sicily. Blazon's source: "Nobiliario di Sicilia" by "Antonio Mango di Casalgerardo" (Palermo, A. Reber, 1912).

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