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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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Conti
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
Antica e nobilissima famiglia guelfa di Forlì nota fin dal secolo XII. Ivi era patrona del Monastero di S. Giov. Batta con il diritto di eleggere la Badessa, diritto che conservò anche dopo venuta a Fano. La tradizione vuole che fosse originaria da Nancy di Francia e che tra il sec. XI e XII venisse a stabilirsi in Italia a Forlì dando origini ai Conti Numai. Riconosce come capostipite certo, un Ser Benincasa vivente nel 1200 da cui venne un "Magister Borgo". Impadronitisi i ghibellini Ordelaffi del dominio di Forlì, cacciarono tutti i nobili ad essi contrari i quali sul principio del sec. XIV si stabilirono a Fano con la persona di Ser Benincasa II di Magister Borgo, la cui moglie era Madonna Franceschina della potente famiglia degli Orselli di Forlì. Egli divenne, per i Malatesta, capitano di tre Castelli. I suoi figli furono assai cari ai Malatesta, fra essi ...
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
