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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Principi - Duchi - Conti - Nobili
Nobles in:Italia (Stato Pontificio - Regno di Napoli - regno di Sicilia)
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Variations Last name: Carafa,Carafa della Spina,Caraffa della Spina,Caraffa della Stadera
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
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Caraffa
Variations Last name: Carafa,Carafa della Spina,Caraffa della Spina,Caraffa della Stadera
Some Italian historians mention that this family was derived from the ancient Sigismundi family, ouer Sismundi of Pisa. Others of the Caraccioli Rossi, a family originally from the Napolitano Kingdom, confused by the Writers, and narrowing due to the obscurity of the origin, passing the speech to the first knights of the family, and so we follow saying that she flourished powerful, and rich of States in the dominion of the first Normans of those Kingdoms, in which time we read of Aurelius Caraffa, lord of the Castello Fondano, and of other Castles, who advocated against those for not wanting to obey him; and this can be seen in a privilege of Corrado Lanza granted to him by Duke Rubberto Guiscado in 1080. Whence we understand that this family was the Lordship of Castelli in the Kingdoms of Naples in the prince of the Norman regiment, and under that of ...
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BlazonCaraffa
Variations Last name: Carafa,Carafa della Spina,Caraffa della Spina,Caraffa della Stadera
1. Coat of arms of family: Caraffa della Stadera
Language of the text: Italiano
Di rosso, a tre fascie d'argento.
Blasone della famiglia Caraffa o Carafa della Stadera. Fonte bibliografica: "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.I, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888.
D'azzurro, a tre fascie di rosso sormontate in capo da un monte di tre cime d'oro, accompagnato da una croce cavalleresca dello stesso.
Blasone dei Caraffa di Velletri. Fonte bibliografica: "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.I, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888.
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