Last name

Tortis

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Ancient and noble family, feudal lord of Tocco and other castles in the Abruzzi. From the 16th century there is no certain news. Another family from Pavia, a city located in Lonbardia, comes the family, and for the vertù et honeste facultà meritorino in the thousand tricento et fifty as public it has been known to appear to be counted among citizens: then at the present time for pestiferous death almost forgetful all sleep. Numerous authors of the family described events and characters, attributed various origins to it without any valid attestation. Modern historical criticism has, on the safe basis of the documents, accounted for the artificial genealogical reconstructions of those writers who, out of complacent spirit of flattery, demanded that this family descend from noble and ancient prosapias like that of other families. The commendatore GB of Crollalanza, in his work "the Historical-Blazon Dictionary, work that in several decades and with the help of other historians has traced its true existence on the basis of documents and research carried out in past centuries. Right weapon: Silver, with a green leaf and twisted branch, forming three crowns placed on the pole.

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