When you buy a heraldic document a new accurate analysis of the heraldic research will be performed by an expert heraldist and the document will be written in Italian or English.
The coat of arms will be checked and, if necessary, redesigned in strict compliance with the heraldic rules by our experts.
The country or region of the dossier mainly refers to the places where the family was ascribed to the nobility and may be different from those of residence
Vuolsi che questa famiglia sia della medesima agnazione dei Castrocucco, un nobile casato siciliano appellato in vari modi quali Alversi, Albidona, Altomonte ... per via dell'usanza di derivare il nome dai feudi posseduti e, forse, anche per sfuggire alle ricorrenti persecuzioni tra guelfi e ghibellini. Lo stemma dei Mastrocucco è ignoto ed è improbabile che alzassero la medesima arme dei Castrocucco. Numerosi autori della famiglia descrissero eventi e personaggi, attribuirono ad essa varie origini senza alcuna valida attestazione. La moderna critica storica ha, sulla scorta sicura dei documenti, fatto ragione delle artificiose ricostruzioni genealogiche di quegli scrittori che, per compiacente spirito d'adulazione, pretesero far discendere questa famiglia da nobili e antiche prosapie come quella di altre famiglie. ...
When you buy a heraldic document a new accurate analysis of the heraldic research will be performed by an expert heraldist and the document will be written in Italian or English.
The coat of arms will be checked and, if necessary, redesigned in strict compliance with the heraldic rules by our experts.
It is possible to do a preliminary research in our archive. About 100,000 heraldic traces, origins of surnames, coat of arms and blazons are available free of charge. Just write the desired last name in the form below and press enter.
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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