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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
Anteriormente llamado Gerifalca y más tarde Saraceno, tomó el nuevo apellido debido a una victoria traída por un valiente capitán contra un valiente sarraceno. En 1154 un Tommaso Saraceno recibió un feudo del conde de Tricarico, Ruggero Sanseverino. En la fachada lateral de la Catedral de Matera, todavía se pueden ver los vestigios de un monumento o sarcófago (Sepulcrum Judicis Saraceni), que data de 1270. A Giovan-Michele Saraceno fue creado Cardenal de la Iglesia SR por el Papa Julio III, de quien logró renunciar al arzobispado de Matera a favor de su nieto Segismundo. Era la costumbre de las familias más antiguas, que después de la caída del Imperio Romano, en esa inundación de los bárbaros, perdieron y dejaron sus apellidos, así como sus estudios y otras cosas hermosas solo con nombres simples, volvieron a dibujar sus apellidos , y su familia por nombres propios paternos, y de los principales. ...
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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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