The Heraldic Traces are dossiers made by an A.I. useful as a starting point for researchers and passionate heraldists and confirm that there is information to work on and it is possible to order a heraldic document.
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The coat of arms will be checked and, if necessary, redesigned in strict compliance with the heraldic rules by our experts.
Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Principi
Nobles in:Italia
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
Secondo la maggior parte degli autori, questa famiglia del regio sangue dei duchi di Baviera, passò in Italia nel sec. X, stabilendosi nella marca di Ancona. Al tempo degli Svevi scese nel Napoletano, acquistando un grosso stato negli Abruzzi, nel quale si comprende la terra di Acquaviva da cui trasse il nome. Per concessione di Ferdinando d'Aragona nel 1477 Giulio Antonio, duca di Atri, e i suoi discendenti, aggiunsero al proprio il cognome di Aragona. Fu annoverata insieme alla Sanseverino, d'Aquino, Ruffo, del Balzo, Piccolomini e Celano fra le sette grandi famiglie del regno. Fin dal 1373 fu ricevuta nell'ordine di Malta. Nel 1507 fu aggregata al patriziato di Napoli al seggio di Nido, e fu a suo tempo ascritta al Libro d'oro della nobiltà napoletana, per la qual cosa spetta il titolo di patrizio napoletano ai disc. maschi di Luigi di Girolamo e di Carlo di Girolamo. ...
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.
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The Heraldic Traces are dossiers made by an A.I. useful as a starting point for researchers and passionate heraldists and confirm that there is information to work on and it is possible to order a heraldic document.
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