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.
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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Baroni - Signori - Nobili - Conti
Nobles in:Italia
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Ancienne et illustre famille piémontaise, répartie au cours des siècles dans diverses régions d'Italie. L'origine de ce patronyme, selon d'illustres généalogistes, dériverait de l'abondance de châtaigniers dans les localités d'abord habitées par les ancêtres de cette lignée (Cérès et Voragno), ainsi que du commerce qu'ils exerçaient dans cet aliment autrefois fondamental. Les premiers vestiges, laissés par la famille, font référence au Xe IIIe siècle. En effet, certains parchemins de Lanzesi révèlent le nom d'une certaine Perona, fille de Giovanni Castagneri, qui, en 1310-11, acheta des marchandises pour la valeur de 60 soldi viennois, à un certain Bernardo Truffo. En tout cas, la famille avait son premier centre dans le hameau de Voragno, d'où elle s'est étendue à Cérès, Lanzo, Turin et la Savoie. Avec des lettres patentes datées du 16 juin 1612, un Giambattista Castagneri a obtenu la même arme que son oncle "Bernardo Castagna". Cette famille a donc toujours ...
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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.
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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