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Variations Last name: Giffoni
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
Ancient Calabria family, which some writers believe took its name from the land it owned. Rinaldo and Tommaso were stripped of their possessions by King Charles I of Anjou, for following the Swabian parts. Gerardo contestable in Calabria for Carlo Illustre. This family took part in the struggles between Urban VI and the antipope Clement VII. Leonardo, general of the Minor Observants, was created by these, cardinal, but was later imprisoned by order of Charles III of Durazzo, who sent him to Pope Urban VI after having publicly burned his cardinal robes. Horace took part in the defense of Malta against the Turks in 1565. Fabrizio founded the monastery of the Minor Observants in Cinquefrondi. This family had the possession of Tortora, Altavilla and Cinquefrondi. In 1615 it was decorated with the title of Marquis on this land, passed together with the title in 1712 to the Pescara family. In ...
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BlazonGiffone
Variations Last name: Giffoni
1. Coat of arms of family: Giffone
Language of the text: Italiano
Scaccato d'argento e di nero di sei file, con la fascia di rosso attraversante, sul tutto.
Giffone o Giffoni di Tropea.
Citato in "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.I, pag. 476, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888.
Giffone o Giffoni di Calabria.
Citato in "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.I, pag. 476, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888.
Giffone o Giffoni di Calabria.
Citato in "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.I, pag. 476, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888.
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