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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Duchi - Principi - Visconti
Nobles in:Italia
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Variations Last name: Grifeo
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
Very noble family and as Minutoli says, according to other historians, it derives its origin from the Greek emperors, lived having in Palermo with great splendor, counting itself as the oldest Sicilian family because found noble by Count Ruggiero, and owner of the land of Partanna . And to keep silent about a remote antiquity, it likes with Mugnos to stop at a Leone Foca 970, son of Bardafoca II, who given the last collapse to 'Bulgari, and won in battle their lord and captain Grifeo, took its name and the weapon. It was for this reason that he obtained the island of Candia and numerous castles from the Greek emperor. From him a Euripione G., who with a team of cadiotti was militating in Sicily, together with Maniace general of the Greek army against the Saracens, making horrible havoc. They flourished: Giovanni Grifeo, valiant in arms, and straticoto di ...
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BlazonGraffeo
Variations Last name: Grifeo
1. Coat of arms of family: Graffeo
Language of the text: Italiano
Campo d'oro, con tre sbarre i d'azzurro, abbassate sotto una riga dello stesso, sormontata da un grifo di nero passante con la branca destra erta combattente.
Mantello di velluto scarlatto. Corona di principe. Motto: Noli Me Tangere.
Graffeo o Grifeo di Sicilia.
Fonte: "Blasone In Sicilia ossia Raccolta Araldica" V. Palizzolo Gravina, Palermo 1871-75, p. 25-26-27.
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