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Family of Trentino origin. The memories of this preserved in the Archive of Trento do not go back beyond 1142, the year in which Engilberto, lord of Castelbarco lived. It enjoyed the lordship of many fiefdoms and in 1198 Briano had from Corrado, bishop of Trento, the investiture of the Pratalia castle and Castelbarco, and in 1218 from bishop Federico Vanga he obtained the consent to erect a feudal mansion in Brentonico on condition of destroying the Leone castle. In 1213, having his children Aldrighetto and Azzone at the age of majority, he made a donation to them of the castle of S. Giorgio and of the assets all located in Avio, Corona and Lusignolo. The investiture of Castelcorno and Serravalle was obtained by said Aldrighetto in 1255 by Bishop Engone. Great power assumed this family with the grandchildren of Briano who bought and obtained, even by contracting weddings, almost all the castles of the Lagarina Valley, substantial substances that then gathered in the property of Guglielmo, the only survivor of the grandchildren of said Briano, who in 1309 erected his expenses part of the cathedral of Trento. The family was divided into several branches, having Guglielmo called his grandchildren his heirs: Giovanni, son of Briano, Aldrighetto, son of Federico, Guglielmo, son of Azzone and another Aldrighetto, son of Bonifacio. All of them generated several lines of the Castelbarco family, some of which abandoned the original name to assume that of the localities under their jurisdiction. The only surviving line is the one that descends from Aldrighetto, Federico's son. Besides the castles of Brentanico, Lizzana, Castel Beseno, Castel Pietra, Dosso Maggiore, S. Giorgio, Avio, Serravalle, Chizola, Castelcorno, Castelnuovo and Castellano, they also had the possession of Nomi, Rovereto, Albano and that di Gresta, built by the Castelbarco family, as well