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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili
Nobles in:Italia
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Genoese patrician family, very ancient in Ventimiglia, from which they emigrated for the internal discord of their homeland in the nearby free municipality of Tàggia and in Genoa. He was constantly Ghibelline, of which still gives his weapon sign, indeed he headed that faction in Ventimiglia: in the year 1270 they rose in arms against the podestà Luchetto Grimaldi of the Guelph part, supported by the Municipality of Genoa, who sent them Luchetto Dòria, Ansaldo Castelli and Guglielmo Torre. In the thirteenth century they owned the lands of Airole and Roccabruna, the first of which was donated the year 1273 (25 January) by Folco C. to the monastery of Pésio. After moving to Taggia, some lines remained there until today, others passed through Genoa. It is therefore true that even before, since 1160, it has been found in Genoa, and then they continued to immigrate, as when Luigi C. from ...
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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
