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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
Antigua y muy noble familia toscana, con residencia en la ciudad de Pistoia, donde tenía una tumba en la Catedral, de clara y ancestral virtud, que se extendió a lo largo de los siglos en varias regiones de Italia. La clara nobleza de la familia se evidencia por su presencia en las valiosas obras: "Escudo de armas e insignias de Pistoia con notas históricas" del Dr. G. Mazzer, y la "Colección Ceramelli Papiani", establecida durante muchos años por Enrico Ceramelli Papiani (1896 -1976), que es un fondo preservado en los Archivos Estatales de Florencia y compuesto por casi 8000 archivos, dirigido a familias toscanas de origen antiguo, que proporcionan información genealógica y heráldica tomada de fuentes de archivo conservadas en el Archivo Florentino o en otros institutos de archivo o en bibliotecas regionales. De un instrumento elaborado por Ser Santi Jomelli, el 13 de julio de 1598, se puede deducir ...
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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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