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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili
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Ancient and very noble Ligurian family, with residence in the city of Genoa, of clear and ancestral virtue, which has spread over the centuries in various regions of Italy. The origin of this cognomination, according to authoritative genealogists, should be sought in the medieval name "Galianus", an altered form of the more common "Galienus", derived, in turn, from the Latin cognomen (agnomen) of Greek origin "Galienus, Gallienus ", name also brought by a Roman emperor from 253 AD, Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus. The clear nobility of the family is confirmed by its presence in the valuable work "The historical-blazon dictionary of noble and notable Italian families that are extinct and flourishing", by the genealogist Giovan Battista di Crollalanza, published in Pisa in 1886 in three volumes, of over 1400 pages. . On the other hand, this family, in the unfolding of its luster, has always managed to produce a series ...
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BlazonGaliano
1. Coat of arms of family: Galiano
Language of the text: Italiano
Spaccato; nel primo d'argento, alla metà orizzontale di una croce d'azzurro, accantonata da due leoni al naturale, quello di destra rivoltato; nel secondo d'argento, a due galli di nero combattenti, sormontati da una fascia in divisa di nero, sostenente la mezza croce del primo punto.
Galiano originario di Genova.
Fonte: "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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