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Variations Last name: Graffigna
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 very noble family of Emilia Romagna, of clear and ancestral virtue, which has spread over the centuries in various regions of Italy. The house, in the unfolding of its luster, has always managed to produce a series of men who made his name illustrious, in public employment, in liberal and ecclesiastical professions and in military service. Among these, without risking anything to the value of the omitted, there are: Giovanni, field teacher in the service of Girolamo Riario, flourishing in the second half of the 16th century; Antonio, war captain in Bologna in the early 17th century; Tommaso, standard bearer of the Holy Roman Church, under the banners of General Jacopo Boncompagni (Bologna, 8 May 1548 - Sora, 18 August 1612); Luigi, among the Bolognese judges, living in 1611; Benedetto, doctor in "utroque jure", flourishing in Bologna, in 1626; Francesco Maria, jurist, living in Bologna, in 1632; Agostino, ...
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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.
BlazonFigna
Variations Last name: Graffigna
1. Coat of arms of family: Graffigna o Figna
Language of the text: Italiano
D'argento, al leone al naturale tenente con le branche anteriori un bastone o mazza contradoppio noderosa di nero, in palo.
Blasone della famiglia Graffigna o Figna di Genova. 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.
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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