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Variations Last name: Giffone
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 and very noble Calabrian family, known as Giffoni or Giffone, of clear and ancestral virtue, which has spread over the centuries in various regions of Italy. According to what is handed down to us, the family originated from Guaimario, called Giffone, son of Guidone, Duke of Sorrento and Count of Conza, and grandson of the Princes of Salerno, who flourished in the eleventh century. In any case, the family took its name from the lordship of Giffoni and had its main residence in the city of Tropea. It has also enjoyed five baronies, from the county of Simmari and from the marquisate of Cinquefrondi, since 1615. A Gerardo was contestable in Calabria for Carlo Illustre; Horace took part in the defense of Malta against the Turks, in 1565; Fabrizio founded the monastery of the Minori Osservanti in Cinquefrondi. The most illustrious man of the family was certainly a Luigi, ...
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BlazonGiffoni
Variations Last name: Giffone
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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