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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili
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Ancient and illustrious family of the Kingdom of Naples, of clear and ancestral virtue, which has spread over the centuries in various regions of Italy and the world. Legend has it that the progenitor of the Formisanos was a knight from the Lazio city of Formia, who escaped the destruction of the city by the Saracens in the year 842 and took refuge in Naples; hence the toponymic surname. In any case, the clear nobility of this lineage is confirmed by its presence in some valuable heraldry works, including the rare collection of coats of arms commonly known as "Stemmario Mattei", compiled by Count Edgardo Mattei, between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the twentieth. Furthermore, the Formisano family, in the unfolding of the decades, has always managed to distinguish itself thanks to the elevation of the characters to which it gave birth. From our archives: ...
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BlazonFormisano
1. Coat of arms of family: Formisano
Language of the text: Italiano
Partito; nel 1° di nero a quattro bande cucite di rosso; nel 2° partito a. d’azzurro ad una stella d'oro; b. al pesce di nero nuotante in fascia in un mare d'argento fluttuoso di verde.
Blasone della famiglia Formisano; fonte bibliografica: acquerello presente nell'opera "Conte Edgardo Mattei, collezione rara di stemma gentilizi Italiani esistente in Roma Archivio Conte Pasini" Copia conforme per cura dell'Istituto Araldico Blasone Italiano, Bologna. Note: il punto b. del 2° nel disegno ha una altezza maggiore del normale e la stella del punto a. non è centrata orizzontalmente. Potrebbe essere un errore del disegnatore o, più probabilmente, una peculiarità dello stemma.
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