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Language of the text: Italiano
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A very ancient and noble family, believed to have come from Greece and taken to Rome on the orders of Emperor Justinian II and then settled in Puglia. Under the rule of King William the Good, towards the year 1187, a Pietro Altamura owned a fiefdom in the city of Oria while a Leone Altamura was a feudal lord over that of Montefarchio. We also remember an Esparano Altamura who, under the reign of Emperor Frederick II, had given Berga, his daughter, to wife to Simon, son of Simon of Sora, who, among other things, dominated Valenzano in the land of Bari. Grimoaldo and Giovanni Altamura, sons of Sparano, who was also already dead, had then obtained possession of Valenzano from the Emperor, as a particularly obliged place for the restitution of his sister's gifts. Furthermore, the presence of the weapon and the motto in the documented bibliography of the ...
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BlazonAltamura
1. Coat of arms of family: Altamura
Language of the text: Italiano
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