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Language of the text: English
Nobility: Nobles - Palatine Counts
Nobles in:Italy (Liguria)
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
Variations Last name: Abriano
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
Antica ed illustre famiglia savonese (Liguria), di chiara ed ancestrale virtù, che nei secoli si è diffusa in tutto il mondo. Secondo quanto tramandato, questa famiglia discende dalla nobile famiglia veneta degli Abriano. La famiglia Abriano fin dal 1466 fu ascritta all'ordine nobiliare di Padova, e come tale fu riconosciuta dal Senato del Veneto nel 1627. L'imperatore Federico III nel 1469 le aveva conferito anche il titolo di Conti Palatini. Uno dei suoi rami dunque, tra il XV e il XVII secolo, si trasferì in Liguria e precisamente a Savona dove il cognome perse nel tempo la vocale iniziale. Nella nuova patria ha sempre avuto un'elevata posizione sociale grazie ai suoi membri che l'hanno fatta risplendere. Molti membri di questa famiglia si sono infatti distinti per abilità e intelligenza, soprattutto nelle libere professioni e nel campo delle conoscenze umanistiche. Dal nostro archivio: Tommaso, dottore in "utroque jure", fiorente a Savona ...
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BlazonBriano
Variations Last name: Abriano
1. Coat of arms of family: Briano
Language of the text: English
Or, a sinister arm vested gules holding a compass, points toward the chief, between three stars gules (1,2) on a chief of the same a label of four points or.
Coat of arms lost in its original description, it was reconstructed based on heraldic conjecture and archival information.
2. Coat of arms of family: Abriano, Abriani, Briano
Language of the text: English
Gules, a crown or.
Source: "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.I, compiled by Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edited by "la direzione del giornale araldico", Pisa 1888. Notice: surname variations: Abriani or Briano.
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