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Variations Last name: Caracciolo Rossi
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
The first character, of this very ancient and illustrious family, seems to be a Theodore, who lived in the first half of the 10th century, who owned territories in Naples, including a field, called Monticelli de li Caracciolo. The latter appears deceased in a 976 parchment, parchment which is the oldest authentic document of the family surname. D'Engenio has an ancient inscription, found in a small church called S. Maria Assunta dei Caracciolo, where Teodoro was buried together with Uranie, his wife. At the time of the Neapolitan duchy, the members of the family were among the "nobiliores homines", who enjoyed the privileges granted, after a pactum, by the duke Sergio. Most of them belonged to the square of Capuana, where they had a third of the honors. Various members of this family branched off to Sicily, Piacenza, France and Austria; Fabris thought it probable that the Sicilian Di Napoli ...
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BlazonCaracciolo
Variations Last name: Caracciolo Rossi
1. Coat of arms of family: Caracciolo
Language of the text: Italiano
Bandato d'oro e di rosso al capo di azzurro. Quest'arma si trova sul sepolcro di Bernardino, arcivescovo di Napoli, vissuto nel secolo XII.
Bandato d'oro e di rosso al capo di azzurro. Cimiero: La testa di elefante.
Blasone della famiglia Caracciolo, Caracciolo di San Vito e Caracciolo Rossi, fonte: "Enciclopedia Storico-Nobiliare Italiana di V. SPRETI", Vol. II pag. 302.
Bandato d'oro e di rosso, al capo di azzurro colla bordura di argento caricata del motto "POR BIEN VER" di lettere maiuscole di nero in alto e da un paio di occhiali al naturale in punta
Blasone della famiglia Caracciolo Rossi, fonte: "Enciclopedia Storico-Nobiliare Italiana di V. SPRETI", suppl. 1.
D'oro, al leone di nero accompagnato in capo da un lambello di tre pendenti di rosso sormontato da una stella di sei raggi dello stesso. Cimiero: testa di moro. Motto: Vincere aut mori
Blasone della famiglia Caracciolo di Roma, fonte: "Enciclopedia Storico-Nobiliare Italiana di V. SPRETI" Vol. II pag. 311.
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