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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili - Conti - Baroni - Marchesi
Nobles in:Italia
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Variations Last name: de Castro
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
Sicilian family, of clear and ancestral nobility, who possessed numerous fiefdoms in this region. It is believed to have originated in Nola, passed towards Palermo towards the end of the 16th century, where it enjoyed nobility, possessing the marquisate of "Tortorici delli Graniti". Don Alvaro owned the Baronia dei Pulci, also had the Castellania del Castello di Noto from King Alfonso, of whom, after his death, his son Don Pietro invested in 1471. He had his wife Ximena de Corellas, daughter of Ximemio Perez de Corellas, Catalan cavalier, full of many riches, with which in 1445 he bought the city of Mazara. With this Ximena, Don Pietro procreated Don Alvaro and Don Giovanni di Castro, who fought under the Catholic King Ferdinand. A Mario was a praetorian judge of Palermo in the years 1580-81, 1595-96 and 1600-1601, 1604-5 and of the consistory court in 1599; a Garsia was a praetorian ...
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BlazonCastro
Variations Last name: de Castro
1. Coat of arms of family: Castro (de)
Language of the text: Italiano
D'azzurro, al castello di tre torri d'oro, cimato sulla torre di mezzo da una bandiera astata d'argento, svolazzante a sinistra, con due leoni coronati del secondo affrontati e controrampanti al castello.
Castro o de Castro della Sicilia.
Fonte: "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.
Di verde, al castello d'argento merlato ed aperto d'oro, fortificato di tre torri; quella di mezzo sormontata da una stella d' oro. Cimiero: Un cane levriere d' argento, collarinato d' oro, nascente. Motto: Fide et opere.
Castro di Scalenghe in Piemonte.
Fonte: "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.
Castro di Genova.
Fonte: "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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