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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili - Marchesi
Nobles in:Italia (Sicilia) - Spagna
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Variations Last name: de Castilla,del Castillo
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
Family originally from Spain, who was transplanted to Messina, in the XVIII century called Castiglia or del Castillo raised for arms of the family: Red, to the silver tower. The ancestral nobility of the Castiglia or del Castillo family is confirmed by the presence of the blazon in the most authoritative armorials of Italy. The noble family, originally from Castile, was brought to Sicily by a Baldassare, who was sergeant major of the third Spaniard, senator of Palermo in 1589-90, proconservative of Gangi in 1591. Of his children: Melchiorre was knight of Malta; Gaspare abbate of Roccadia; young Francesco judge praetorian, of the consistory and of the Grand Court and general auditor of armies and was author of many juridical works; Diego married Caterina Grassini heiress of the fiefdoms of Vacco and Vaccotto on which she obtained, after her husband died, the title of marquis of S. Isidoro with privilege ...
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BlazonCastiglia
Variations Last name: de Castilla,del Castillo
1. Coat of arms of family: Castiglia
Language of the text: Italiano
Di rosso, alla torre d'argento.
Blasone della famiglia Castiglia, del Castillo o de Castilla nobile in Sicilia. 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.
2. Coat of arms of family: Del Castillo, Castillo, De Castilla, Castiglia, Castiglio
Language of the text: Italiano
D’argento, al castello torricellato di tre pezzi di rosso, aperto e finestrato di nero, e la banda dello stesso attraversante; con la bordatura di rosso, caricata di otto anelli d’oro.
Blasone della famiglia Castiglia, Castiglio, del Castillo o de Castilla nobile in Sicilia. Fonte bibliografica: "Nobiliario di Sicilia" di Antonio Mango di Casalgerardo (Palermo, A. Reber, 1912) custodito presso la biblioteca centrale della regione Sicilia.
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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