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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili - Cavalieri
Nobles in:Italia (Toscana - Regno di Sicilia)
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Variations Last name: del Grande,Grandis
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 family of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, known as Grande or de Grandis, of clear and ancestral virtue, which has spread over the centuries in various regions of Italy. According to what has been handed down by historians and heraldists, a Leo, a Roman knight, who was nicknamed "The Great" for his many military merits, was his progenitor. His descendants then began to name each other in this way. The first who brought the family to Sicily, however, was a Luca de Grandis, also a Roman gentleman and descendant of the aforementioned Leone, who, having passed into the regiment of Federico II, had as a reward the enjoyment of the city of Syracuse for three years. He fell in love with the daughter of Pietro d'Ancona, in the year 1305, establishing his descendants precisely in Syracuse. His successors always had the most important offices and ...
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BlazonGrande
Variations Last name: del Grande,Grandis
1. Coat of arms of family: Grande
Language of the text: Italiano
D'azzurro, a tre pesci (o delfini) d'oro natanti l'uno sull'altro, accompagnati in capo da una stella a sei punte d'oro a destra e da un crescente figurato volto d'argento a sinistra.
Stemma della famiglia Grande (del) da Bientina in Pescia; fonte: "Raccolta Ceramelli Papiani" custodita presso l'archivio di stato di Firenze fasc.5750.
D’azzurro alla fascia d’oro caricata da tre stelle del campo, accompagnata da un sole d’oro nel capo ed in punta da un vaso d’argento, piantato da una pianticella di tre steli, fogliati di verde e fioriti di rosso.
Blasone della famiglia Grandi (di) o Grandis (de) in Abruzzo e Sicilia. Fonti bibliografiche: "STEMMI INEDITI DELLE FAMIGLIE NOBILI E NOTABILI DI PENNE" Italia Nostra, Ottobre 2012; "Nobiliario di Sicilia" di Antonio Mango di Casalgerardo (Palermo, A. Reber, 1912) custodito presso la biblioteca centrale della regione Sicilia.
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