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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Principi
Nobles in:Italia
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Genoese patrician family, also called Cigala and Cigara, whose earliest memories date back to the year 924, when it would pass from Lerici to Genoa. It is legendary tradition that, having flown over the head of this Pompey of this lineage, a swarm of cicadas when he was to attack the Pisans with his Genoese, after the victory, he wanted to celebrate the prodigy by painting that insect on the shield and taking its name . This family, one of the consular of Genoa, flourished not only in Genoa for trade, for navigation, for weapons, for letters, for civil and ecclesiastical offices, but also for goods in many other countries of Italy and beyond. As there were in Lerici, there were in Ventimiglia, Albenga, Piacenza, Rome, Naples, Aquila, Lecce, Cosenza (1391) in Messina, Lentini (noble 1458), Palermo and then to Turkey and Persia. One of the branches passed into the ...
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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.
BlazonCigara
Coat of arms of family
Language of the text: Italiano
Di rosso all'aquila a volo abbassato di argento. Le armi originarie di questa famiglia portavano un numero, alquanto mutevole di cicale; la forma rimasta pi
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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
