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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Baroni - Signori
Nobles in:Italia
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Variations Last name: Grassi
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 presence of the Grasso family in the Lombard lands dates back to a very distant period as their Roman origin is equally remote: he who was then St. Ambrogio, elected several times bishop of Milan and became its patron, in 370 was governor of the provinces of the Liguria and Emilia with headquarters in Milan; from Rome he brought with him some faithful families namely the Grasso, the Villano, the Matrignani and the Muciani who in the city and beyond the borders of the new homeland established their residence and flourished there; however, we do not exclude that they spread by immigrating or dissolving from Roman colonies in dissolution already in the early Middle Ages. Both Moriggia and Visconti and Gargantini tell us that in 755 Tommaso "of the ancient and noble Grasso house" was elected archbishop of Milan by Pope Stephen II and was the first to be ...
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Blasone della famiglia Grasso o Grassi in Sicilia. Fonte bibliografica: "Nobiliario di Sicilia" di Antonio Mango di Casalgerardo (Palermo, A. Reber, 1912) custodito presso la biblioteca centrale della regione Sicilia.
Di rosso, ad un aquila di nero. Supporti: due grifoni al naturale.
Blasone della famiglia Grasso in Sicilia. Fonte bibliografica: "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap - Deuxième èdition refondue et augmentée - Tome I A-K".
Troncato d’oro e di rosso e la banda d’argento, caricata da tre aquilotti di nero, attraversante.
Blasone (alias) della famiglia Grasso o Grassi in Sicilia. Fonte bibliografica: "Nobiliario di Sicilia" di Antonio Mango di Casalgerardo (Palermo, A. Reber, 1912) custodito presso la biblioteca centrale della regione Sicilia.
Palato d'azzurro e d'oro, con il capo partito degli stessi smalti. Motto: Reiciendo o Toujours Mieux (per la linea di Savigliano).
Blasone della famiglia Grassi, de Grassis o Grasso da Mondovì fregiati del titolo di conti di Santa Cristina. Fonte bibliografica: "Il Patriziato Subalpino" di Antonio Manno, Firenze, 1895-1906.
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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
