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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili
Nobles in:Italia (Lombardia)
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The Cantù Porro family is an ancient and very noble Lombard lineage, the founder of this family was a Giovan-Pietro who lived in 1468. His descendant Carlo, in 1654 married Caterina Porro, daughter of Giovan-Angelo of the 60 Decurioni. For the legacy Porro, he added this surname and the weapon to his own. Il Litta in his work “Famous Italian families in foil, and with him the authors agree, this being a noble Lombard family. In the first decades of 1100, following an agreement, the four Milanese noble and city classes of Visconti, captains, valvassori (sub-feudal lords) and soldiers of the people, constituted, governed by consuls, the Signorile Municipality of Milan, which, gradually evading the jurisdiction of the bishop, clearly separated the two ecclesiastical and civil powers. The city families were mostly from the working class and came from the Motta society that had existed since 1036 in opposition to the nobility. Among these, Guasco di Bisio lists this family that moved to Milan in those centuries, acquiring citizenship and soon renown, high command offices. ...
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BlazonCantù Porro
1. Crest of family: Cantù Porro
Language of the text: Italiano
Partito: nel primo spaccato: a) d'argento, ad un braccio armato al naturale, impugnante un mazzo d'armi; b) bandato d'azzurro e d'argento; nel secondo spaccato: a) d'oro, all'aquila di nero coronata del campo; b) d'oro, a tre bande di rosso, con tre agli di verde, lo stelo in alto, posti in fascia attraversanti sulle bande. Cimiero: L'aquila uscente.
Stemma della famiglia Cantù Porro. Fonte Bibliografica: "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti", compilato dal Comm. G. B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888.
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