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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili
Nobles in:Italia
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Variations Last name: Gorra (de),Gorre
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
The notary Sulpicio Gorra, a wealthy man from the village of S. Remi, received Duke Carlo-Emanuele I in his home and took great care to make him well served on the mountain on a journey that this prince made to the Grand-San-Bernardo, and he also followed him on his return to Turin. In consideration of such courtesy, he was ennobled with patent letters July 10, 1590. The aforementioned Sulpicius then went to settle in S. Orso d'Aosta, where he was commissioner of the priory, he received bourgeois and was mayor. Antonio, his son, was, in 1596, standard bearer of the company of Gignod and mayor of the village of Aosta. We have no news of this family since the eighteenth century. The presence of the motto in the documented bibliography of the family confirms the ancestral nobility of the family. In fact, the origin of the motto dates back to ...
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BlazonGorra
Variations Last name: Gorra (de),Gorre
1. Coat of arms of family: Gorra
Language of the text: Italiano
D'azzurro, allo stambecco d'oro passante da una all'altra delle due vette d'una rupe d'argento. Cimiero: Uno stambecco nascente.
Gorra o de Gorra (anche Gorre) della Val d'Aosta. Citato in "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol. primo, pag. 492-493, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888.
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