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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Patrizi
Nobles in:Italia
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Genoese patrician and dogal family, formed by the union of some Genoa families at the beginning of the 14th century. In the 11th century, the Della Volta family, already conspicuous, coming, apparently from Lerici, moved to Genoa, where they immediately went up to the highest offices in the municipality. In the 10th century, Crollalanza assigned them several fiefs in the Genoese (Giornale Araldico XXIV, 260). In any case, it was considered one of the ancient consoling viscontile families of Genoa, and in the XII century it and the Da Castello family were the most powerful imperial faction houses in the city, competing, often bloody, with the Papal part of the Advocate family. Since those times they had consuls of the municipality, archbishops of the diocese and other high civil, military and ecclesiastical offices. In the city they owned the district around the ancient church of San Torpète up to the ...
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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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The Heraldic Traces are dossiers made by an A.I. useful as a starting point for researchers and passionate heraldists and confirm that there is information to work on and it is possible to order a heraldic document.
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