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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Conti
Nobles in:Italia (Basilicata)
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Variations Last name: Saraceno
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
Formerly called Gerifalca and later Saraceno, he took the new surname because of a victory brought by a brave captain against a brave Saracen. In 1154 a Tommaso Saraceno received a fief from the Count of Tricarico, Ruggero Sanseverino. In the side facade of the Cathedral of Matera the vestiges of a monument or sarcophagus (Sepulcrum Judicis Saraceni) can still be seen, which dates back to 1270. A Giovan-Michele Saraceno was created Cardinal of SR Church by Pope Julius III, from whom he obtained to renounce the archbishopric of Matera in favor of his grandson Sigismund. It was the custom of the oldest families, who after the fall of the Roman Empire, in that flood of the Barbarians, having their surnames, as well as their studies, and other beautiful things lost and left only with simple names, draw their surnames again , and their family by paternal proper names, and ...
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BlazonGerifalca
Variations Last name: Saraceno
1. Coat of arms of family: Gerifalca
Language of the text: Italiano
D'argento, alla testa di Moro al naturale, cinta d'azzurro, con un giglio d'oro sulla fronte.
Blasone della famiglia Gerifalca e, successivamente, Saraceno in Basilicata. Fonte bibliografica: "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.II, 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
