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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili - Patrizi - Baroni
Nobles in:Italia
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Variations Last name: Altamore
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 very noble family of the Kingdom of Naples, of clear and ancestral virtue, which has spread over the centuries in various regions of Italy. In 1569, the family was joined to the patrician of Salerno, to the seat of Porta Rotese. In Aversa and in Naples the family was also known as Altomari and was given the baronial title. Giovani Ritonio, in his "Tessera omnium familiarum nobilium Italiae", printed in Valenza in 1484, refers precisely to this family "there originated from a Cavaliero Normando, called Anfuso, Lord of the Contedo d'Altomari in Normandy, son of Count Ruberto , and of Brisilla daughter of Tancredo Normando Conte d'Altavilla. This Anfuso therefore having passed in Italy with the other Barons Normandi his cousins, sons of the aforementioned Tancredo Conte d'Altavilla, against Barbari, by means of its value in 1065 s' he bought the city of Aversa with the other contiguous ...
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BlazonAltomare
Variations Last name: Altamore
1. Coat of arms of family: Altomare
Language of the text: Italiano
Interzato incappato abbassato; di rosso, al al vascello a vele spiegate d'argento, nel 1° d'argento, al leone coronato d'oro; nel 2° d'azzurro alla fascia d'argento caricata di un'aquila coronata.
Fa per armi un leone coronato ch'esce dell'onde marine. Fece anche una banda d'argento co tre mezze bande di sotto d'argento in campo rosso, e pure un vascello in alto mare come di sopra si vede.
Altomare o Altomari di Napoli citati in "Teatro della nobiltà del mondo" del Sig. Dottore Don Filadelfo Mugnos, stampato in Napoli 1680, p.416.
Il blasone appare incompleto tuttavia il Mugnos pubblica anche uno schizzo dello stemma da cui abbiamo ricostruito le mancanze.
Troncato; nel 1° d'oro, all'aquila di nero; nel 2° d'azzurro, a tre bande d'oro; sul tutto una fascia di rosso attraversante sulla partizione caricata di tre stelle (8) d'oro.
Altomare o Altamore di Salerno. Blasone elaborato da immagine del Manoscritto Pinto.
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