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Abruzzo family that could be from the same agnation as the de Riso family, from Catanzaro, and more likely from the Giovinazzo branch, which was received in the SMO of Malta in 1609 in the person of the cav. Antonio de Risi (Arch. State of Naples, Priory of Barletta, vol. 28). In Giovinazzo there is a fifteenth-century palace called de Risis. And the Candida in the memoirs of the noble families (Naples, 1879), reports a Guglielmo, secretary, master of portulan and judge in Abruzzo and a Squarcio milite, royal family and executioner of the same province. And also there, and properly in Sulmona, we find an Onofrio Risii and a brother of him, Lisio, who from Joan II are said to be his faithful and beloved nobles (a. 1423, Angevin reg., N. 377, fol. 257. Passata in Casalbordino and then in Scerni, in the eighteenth century he owned the noble fief of Crecchio in Abruzzo, on which he later recognized the title of baron with R. Motu proprio decree 30 March 1901. With RR.LL.PP. 13 March 1921 Giovanni de Riseis, Baron of Crecchio, was authorized to assume and transmit the title of Duke of Bovino, Duke of Castellairola, Count of Savignano, and the predicates of Greeks, Castelluccio dei Sauri, Panni, Orsara and Montellaro by succession of his mother Maddalena Guevara Suardo and the titles of Prince of Sattriano and Duke of Taormina by succession of the woman's maternal ancestor Carolina Filangeri Family motto: Semper codem Coat of arms of the Riseis family: Blue with the band surmounted by a star, all in gold, accompanied at the tip by 3 seedlings nodrite rice on a sloping ground in bar, all natural. Cimiero: A phoenix about his immortality