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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili
Nobles in:Italia
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Variations Last name: Gay
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 Tuscan family, with residence in the city of Pistoia, where it had a tomb in the Cathedral, of clear and ancestral virtue, which spread over the centuries in various regions of Italy. The clear nobility of the family is evidenced by its presence in the valuable works: "Coat of arms and insignia of Pistoia with historical notes" by Dr. G. Mazzer, and the "Ceramelli Papiani Collection", established over many years by Enrico Ceramelli Papiani (1896 -1976), which is a fund preserved in the State Archives of Florence and made up of almost 8000 files, headed to Tuscan families of ancient origin, which provide genealogical and heraldic information taken from archival sources preserved in the Florentine Archive or in other archival institutes or in regional libraries. From an instrument drawn up by Ser Santi Jomelli, on 13 July 1598, it can be deduced that there were then ...
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BlazonGai
Variations Last name: Gay
1. Coat of arms of family: Gai
Language of the text: Italiano
Di rosso a sette stelle d'oro di 8 punte poste 3, 3, 1, al capo d'argento caricato di un'aquila coronata di nero.
Gai di Pistoia.
Citato in "Stemmi e insegne pistoiesi con note storiche", pag. 20, nota 17, Dott. G. Mazzer, Tipografia Niccolai, Pistoia 1907.
Gai o Gay di Napoli.
Citato in "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.I, pag. 443, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888.
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