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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili
Nobles in:Italia (Sicilia)
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Variations Last name: Cioffo,Coffo
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
Ancient and noble family of Sicily. The commendator GB of Crollalanza reports the blazon of this family in the volumes of his historical blazon dictionary of the noble and notable Italian families. Galluppi says in his works: Present state of the Messina nobility (1881), printed in Milan by Bernardoni in 1881; Nobleman of the city of Messina, printed in Naples in 1878; The Italian Armistista, printed in Milan in 1872, of which Galluppi refers to an ancient and clear nobility. The rigorously documented genealogical thread of this illustrious and very ancient family, which originated in Sicily, reassembles its origin to a personage which appears in historical documents of the time, kept in the annals and archives of the same city of, where she lived as reported in Filiberto or other historical writers and researchers. A Charles was judge of the R. Audience of Messina 1683, judge of appellations 1687, judge ...
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BlazonCoffa
Variations Last name: Cioffo,Coffo
1. Coat of arms of family: Coffa
Language of the text: Italiano
D'azzurro, al monte di tre cime d'argento, movente dalla punta, caricato da due foglie di verde, passate con i gambi di nero in croce di S. Andrea, e sormontato nel capo da un'aquila spiegata d'oro.
Stemma della famiglia Coffa della Sicilia.
Fonte bibliografica del blasone: "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.I, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888.
D’azzurro, al monte a tre cime d’oro, movente dalla punta e due ramoscelli di verde, nodriti sulle due cime laterali, sormontato da un’aquila, spiegata del secondo.
Coffo o Coffa e, probabilmente, anche Cioffo della Sicilia.
Fonte: "Nobiliario di Sicilia" di Antonio Mango di Casalgerardo (Palermo, A. Reber, 1912).
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