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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili - Cavalieri
Nobles in:Italia
The country or region of the dossier mainly refers to the places where the family was ascribed to the nobility and may be different from those of residence
Ancienne et noble famille du royaume de Naples, de vertu claire et ancestrale, répartie au cours des siècles dans diverses régions d'Italie. L'origine de ce patronyme, selon les généalogistes faisant autorité, doit être recherchée dans le terme, de matrice byzantine, "Catapanus" (= Préfet d'une province de l'Empire) ou surintendant, garde des douanes contrôlant certains territoires au sens d'officier chargé du recouvrement des amendes mais aussi juge des affaires civiles, sans doute en référence à la fonction occupée par un inconnu, aujourd'hui géniteur. Cependant, dans un souci d'exhaustivité et d'amour de la vérité, nous ne pouvons pas passer sous silence comment, selon la tradition, bien que mélangée à la légende, l'ancêtre de la famille se trouve dans cette Michele Abidelas, qui fut probablement le premier catapano d'Italie, comme déduite d'un acte de 975. En tout cas, cette famille, d'après ce qui nous est transmis, fut également décorée de la chevalerie, suite ...
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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.
BlazonCatapano
1. Coat of arms of family: Catapano
Language of the text: Italiano
Partito d'oro e di porpora al leone rampante dell'uno nell'altro, sul tutto un fascia d'argento attraversante, caricata di una stella (5) del primo.
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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
