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Variations Last name: Bonanni,Buonanni
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
Very illustrious family, with undisputed clear nobility, which, to say the least, would have taken its origin from a certain Count Supponius, adviser and family member of King Manfred, father of Ugone, who, in the wars of succession to the reign of the Two Sicilies between Tancredi d'Altavilla and the emperor Henry VI of Swabia, son of Federico Barbarossa, he held the parts of the Swabian together with the Pisans and the Genoese who with their fleets helped the emperor and who, in 1264, obtained concession of the lands of Milazzo and Rametta. Other authors, however, believe that this family was brought to Sicily, at the time of King James, by a Giovan Giacomo and a Cesare Bonanno, originally from Pisa, for the well-known events of the Republic, so famous in medieval stories, caused by Partisan wrath of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, who kept Italy divided and torn in the ...
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BlazonBonanno
Variations Last name: Bonanni,Buonanni
1. Coat of arms of family: Bonanno
Language of the text: Italiano
D'oro al gatto passante di nero con la testa in maestà. Divisa: NEQUE SOL PER DIEM. NEQUE LUNA PER NOCTEM. Corona e mantello da principe (di velluto scarlatto foderato d'ermellino). Cimiero: una fenice di nero, sulla sua immortalità di rosso
Fonti bibliografiche: "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.I, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888; "Enciclopedia Storico-Nobiliare Italiana di V. Spreti" Vol. II pag. 114, .
D'oro al gatto passante di nero con la testa in maestà. Divisa: NEQUE SOL PER DIEM. NEQUE LUNA PER NOCTEM. Corona e mantello da principe (di velluto scarlatto foderato d'ermellino)
Cimiero: una fenice di nero, sulla sua immortalità di rosso
Fonte bibliografica: "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.I, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso 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