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Lo Russo

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A family of clear and proven nobility, known as Lo Russo, Russo or Rosso, who is of Norman origin, known in Sicily since the XII century, where he owned the principality of Cerami; the counties of Aidone, Collesano, Sclafani; the baronies of Baccarati and Petralia, Callura and Lamia, Caltavuturo, Camitrice, Cartolaro, Cerami, Foresta di Lignaria or de Castro, San Giorgio, Granito or Aderniti, Santa Margherita, Militello, Miserendino, Pardo, Piscopo, Prato, Rataglusu, Saponara, Schirone, Sottana, Sperlinga, Targia and Vigliatore. Rosso descends from Ugone, from whom the cognomination derives, count of Sperlinga in 1132, son of Guglielmo D'Altavilla di Tancredi D'Altavilla and brother of Ruggero, of the real Norman house of Sicily. He enjoyed nobility in Messina, Palermo, Catania, Castrogiovanni, Troina, etc. A Rosso, according to Villabianca, was in 1132 baron of Sperlinga; another Rosso, baron of Cerami, was the standard bearer of King Peter I of Aragon; a Federico was senator

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