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Variations Last name: Contari,Contarini
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
Ancienne et noble famille de Venise, depuis des temps immémoriaux attribuée au patriciat vénitien et comprise parmi les très anciennes familles apostoliques, connues sous le nom de Contarini ou Contarino, qui se sont répandues dans le monde entier au cours des siècles. La légende raconte qu'il descend des Aurelii Cotta de Rome qui, étant préfets dans la région du Rhin, s'appelaient Cotta Rheni ou Conti del Reno, d'où le nom de famille moderne. En tout cas, le premier représentant historiquement documenté de cette famille est un Andrea qui, en 853, a signé le testament de l'évêque de Castello Orso. Cette noble lignée s'est scindée en de nombreuses branches, plus d'une centaine au XVIe siècle. Il a donné à la Sérénissime jusqu'à huit doges et de nombreuses personnalités de premier plan dans les domaines ecclésiastique, politique et militaire. La confirmation de la noblesse ancestrale eut lieu avec la Résolution Souveraine du ...
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BlazonContarino
Variations Last name: Contari,Contarini
1. Coat of arms of family: Contarino
Language of the text: English
Or, three bendlets, azure alias bendy or and azure.
Coat of arms of family Contarino. Source: "Insignia ... VI. Insignia Venetorum I" kept at
the "Royal Coat of Arms of Bavaria".
2. Coat of arms of family: Contarini, Contari, Contarino
Language of the text: English
Party per pale; 1° or, three bendlets, azure; 2° per saltire; 1° and 4° argent, a castle triple towered, sable; 2° and 3° or, a cross, gules, cantoned by four crosslets of the same.
Source: "Nobiliario di Sicilia" by Antonio Mango of Casalgerardo (Palermo, A. Reber, 1912) kept at "la biblioteca centrale della regione Sicilia". Variations of the last name: Contarini, Contarino or Contari.
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