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Language of the text: English
Nobility: Lords - Patricians - Nobles - Counts
Nobles in:Italia (Emilia Romagna - Marche)
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Variations Last name: dalla Masetta,della Massa
Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families
Ancient and noble Italian family, known as Masetta or della Masetta, of clear and ancestral virtue, that has worldwide spread, over the centuries. Tradition has it that the progenitor of this noble family is a Martino Bernardini from San Sepolcro, golden knight, to whom Guido Ubaldo I, Duke of Urbino, with a diploma September 22, 1503, granted him and his successors in perpetuity the lordship of della Massa with the villas of Pagno, Tivo and Casalecchio; lordship which was then exercised by the Masetta family with count title. From this investiture the family began to be known first as della Massa and finally as della Masetta. Over time this custom became so general that the feudal predicate ended up replacing the original surname. It is said that the (della) Masettas moved to Cesena at the time of Galeotto Malatesta, who, having become lord of the city, favoured the increase of ...
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BlazonMasetta
Variations Last name: dalla Masetta,della Massa
1. Coat of arms of family: Masetta
Language of the text: English
Party per fesse; 1° azure, seven flyings birds, sable; 2° argent, a plant with bulb at the top, vert, issant from the base.
Blazon of family Masetta or della Masetta reconstructed from a drawing of the coat of arms published in "Il Blasone cesenate" made by the canon Gioacchino Sassi (1811-1880) kept at the Malatestiana Library in Cesena, Italy.
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Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families
