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Antichissima e nobile famiglia italiana, tra le più influenti del Marchesato di Crotone e del Regno di Napoli, detta Campitelli o Campitello, che nel corso dei secoli si è diffusa in tutto il mondo. E' stato nobile nelle città di Trani, Crotone e Catanzaro pur essendo originario di Tramonti. I suoi rappresentanti sono stati signori di Melissa fin dai tempi del re Ferdinando I di Napoli. Il 22 aprile 1485, infatti, il suddetto re vendette il feudo di Melissa per tremila ducati al regio tesoriere e consigliere per la Calabria Vinceslao Campitelli, marito di Lucia Contestabile, figlia del barone di Settingiano. Vinceslao, fondatore della casata, divenne il primo barone di Melissa (1485-1493). Gli successero: Giovanni Lorenzo (1493-1516), Giovambattista I (1516-1561), Giovanni Maria (1561-1574), Giovambattista II (1574-1607; primo conte dal 17 luglio 1591 per volere di Filippo II di Spagna ), Annibale (1607-1624) e Francesco (1624-1668), questi ultimi furono anche principi ...
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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.
BlazonCampitelli
1. Coat of arms of family: Campitelli
Language of the text: English
Azure, a bend abased argent supporting a lion passant or and côtoyé in base by three roses of the same.
Coat of arms of family Campitelli or Campitello. Sources: "Memorie historiche di diverse famiglie nobili, così napoletane come forastiere, così vive, come spente, con le loro arme; e con un trattato dell'arme in generale" by Don Biagio Altimari, Naples, 1691; "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap - Deuxième èdition refondue et augmentée - Tome I A-K". Notices: "abased" is a heraldic term used when a fesse is borne lower than its usual situation; "côtoyé" is a heraldic term indicating support from below.
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