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Language of the text: English
Nobility: Nobles
Nobles in:Italy (Lazio)
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Variations Last name: Cerra
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 an noble family from Bagnoregio, of clear and ancestral virtue, that has worldwide spread, over the centuries. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the family moved to Viterbo, with the bishop Stefano Scerra (Civitella d'Agliano, December 24, 1775 - Rome, January 1859), bishop of Orope, arcbishop of Ancyra and secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Ecclesiastical Immunity, and his brother Coronato. The sons of the latter were the lawyer Ludovico, Carlo, Bonaventura and Luisa. With Maria, daughter of Carlo and wife of Leopoldo Signorelli, the family became related to the noble Signorelli family. The Scerra were wealthy landowners and in Viterbo there is a small church dedicated to the Immaculate Conception and the saints Isidoro and Rocco, in the Santa Caterina estate on the Tuscanese road, built and consecrated by the said bishop Stefano, on 14 October 1858. The coat of arms of the family is handed down ...
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BlazonScerra
Variations Last name: Cerra
1. Coat of arms of family: Scerra
Language of the text: English
Gules, two hands, proper holding a laurel wreath, vert.
Blazon of family Scerra from Lazio, as handed down by familiar memories
Argent; two bars nebuly, gules, on a chief argent, a lion's head, or.
Blazon of family Cerra, Xerra or Scerra from Rome. Source: "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" volume I, compiled by Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edited by "la direzione del giornale araldico", Pisa 1888.
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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
