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Last name: Gerifalca

Dossier: 20274
Type:Heraldic dossiers
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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Conti
Nobles in:Italia (Basilicata)
The country or region of the dossier mainly refers to the places where the family was ascribed to the nobility and may be different from those of residence
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

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Gerifalca
Variations Last name: Saraceno


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Nobility crown GerifalcaChiamata anticamente Gerifalca e successivamente Saraceno, prese il nuovo cognome in causa di una vittoria riportata da un prode suo capitano contro un valoroso saracino. Un Tommaso Saraceno nel 1154 ebbe in dono un Feudo dal Conte di Tricarico, Ruggero Sanseverino. Nella facciata laterale del Duomo di Matera ancor si osservano le vestigia di un monumento o sarcofago (Sepulcrum Judicis Saraceni) che rimonta al 1270. Un Giovan-Michele Saraceno fu creato Cardinale di S.R. Chiesa da Papa Giulio III, dal quale ottenne di rinunciare all'arcivescovato di Matera in favore di Sigismondo suo nipote. Fu costume delle più antiche famiglie, le quali dopo la caduta del Romano Imperio, in quella inondatione de' Barbari, havendo i loro cognomi, sicome gli studi, e altre cose belle smarrito e restati solo con semplici nomi, trarre di nuovo i loro cognomi, e il loro casato da' nomi proprii paterni, e de' maggiori. ...

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Blazon Gerifalca
Variations Last name: Saraceno

Coat of arms of family Gerifalca

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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