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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili
Nobles in:Italia
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Genoese patrician and dogal family, formed by the union from the beginning of the century. XIV of some families of Genoa. In the sec. XI the Della Volta family, already conspicuous coming apparently, from Lerici, transplanted to Genoa where, immediately went up to the highest offices of the municipality. The Crollalanza assigns them already in the sec., X several fiefs in the Genoese. In any case it was considered one of the ancient consular viscount families of Genoa, and in the sec. XII it and the De C. family were the most powerful imperial faction houses in the city. competing, bloody motive, with the Papal Party Lawyer 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 Tòrpete up to the "bridge of the Cattanei" ...
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BlazonCattaneo Adorno
Coat of arms of family
Language of the text: Italiano
D'azzurro, alla punta d'argento, intagliata in quadro, sui due lati; sormontata da una punta simile, di rosso, cucita, rovesciata, movente dal lembo del capo dello scudo.
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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
