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Language of the text: Italiano
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Formerly called de Cigala or de 'Cigagli, the family originated in Bobbio, where, according to a tradition collected by Brother Leandro Alberti, he would have escaped from Genoa due to civil disagreements. According to others, however, it would be a branch of the Cicali family of Piacenza. However, it does not help to stop to discuss events that have no historical background. Instead, it seems that in 1417, from Bobbio, a certain C. of Gerardo Cigala moved to Bologna, where he married and was later made a native citizen of that city by the cardinal legate (21 Dec. 1427). A son of him, Antonio, towards the middle of the century. XV, he moved to Modena, where he married Lodovica Molza, he established the family which was named de 'Colombi by the patronymic of the ancestor as well as de' Cigali, this surname which then prevailed definitively. From Antonio, banker and ...
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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
