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Head of the Ezzelini in Italy was Ezzolo di Arpone who came down from Germany in 1036 with Corrado II il Salico, from whom he had the castle of Onara and that of S. Romano as a gift from which the Ezzelini da Romano later said. This Ezzelo was also invested in the castle and district of Bassano and in the two villas of Angarano and Cartiglione, where he exercised a princely dominion. His son Ezzellino, called the Balbo because he was a stutterer, was crucified in the Holy Land in 1147, and returned to his homeland was invested by the Bishop of Feltre of the castle of Maser, and by that of Belluno of the lands of Oderzo and Mussolente. Ezzellino known as Monaco, because before dying he dressed the dress of the Benedictines of Campese, he led the faction of the Marchegiani Ghibellines. He made himself powerful in Verona, and committed massacres and fires in the city of Vicenza: he also had a seat in Padua, he fought with the Camposampiero, and he also broke war on the Marquis d'Este. He died around 1235. A third Ezzelino, whom history calls a tyrant, continued the massacres and cruelties of his father. He also fought at the head of the Ghibellines and first reported great victories: he took Verona, Padua and some other cities of Italy, where he made the most abominable tyranny. But since the princes of Lombardy led Uberto Pallavicino to confederate against him, they took him when he came to attack Milan, and led him to Soncino where he died desperately on 12 October 1259. In him the lineage and the name of the Ezzellini died Roman.