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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili - Signori
Nobles in:Italia (Toscana)
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Variations Last name: Cotennacci Sozzifanti
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Family before 1200. This ancient Pistoia family had high offices and dignity and illustrious relatives at all times. Extinguished in a branch of the Sozzifanti family who changed the enamels of the coat of arms by assuming the silver and black cut. This family, which seems to have taken the surname from a "Sozzo di Fante", from Casore del Monte in Val di Nievole, where it had lands and castles, around 1200, when the castles of the countryside were destroyed, descended to Pistoia, immediately obtaining the enrollment in the Magnate Order. Bouldrone, of Soldo, consul of the soldiers in 1207 and Teberto d'Arciprete, appear in 1209 among the representatives of Pistoia who swore peace between their municipality and that of Bologna. Messer Sozzafante was judge of the cases and councilor of the municipality in 1267. Ser Lapo, his son, was one of the four wise men in charge of the ...
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BlazonCotennacci
Variations Last name: Cotennacci Sozzifanti
1. Coat of arms of family: Cotennacci
Language of the text: Italiano
D'oro, al leone d'argento.
Blasone della famiglia Cotennacci nobile in Firenze; fonte: "Raccolta Ceramelli Papiani" custodita presso l'archivio di stato di Firenze fasc.n. 1696.
Blasone della famiglia Cotennacci o Cotennacci Sozzifanti nobile in Pistoia; fonte: "Raccolta Ceramelli Papiani" custodita presso l'archivio di stato di Firenze fasc.n. 7337.
Losangato d'argento e di rosso, al canton franco di..., caricato di un castello turrito di un pezzo di....
Blasone della famiglia Cotennacci nobile in Siena indicata come Signori di Belagaio ; fonte: "Raccolta Ceramelli Papiani" custodita presso l'archivio di stato di Firenze fasc.n. 7337.
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