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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili - Baroni - Marchesi
Nobles in:Italia (Veneto - Toscana - Sicilia - Calabria)
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Variations Last name: Grecco
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 Sicilian family, with residence in Palermo and Acireale, of clear and ancestral virtue, spread over the centuries in various regions of Italy. According to what Villabianca reports, a Giuseppe, governor of Monte, was invested with the title of Marquis of Valdina, in 1752. On the other hand, this family, in the unfolding of its luster, has always managed to produce a series of men who have made illustrious his name, in public employment, in liberal and ecclesiastical professions and in military service. Among these, without raising the value of the omitted, there are: Baldassarre, in 1682, tax attorney of the Tribunal of the Royal Heritage; Vincenzo, judge of the Royal Audience in Messina, in 1693, of the Praetorian court of Palermo 1695/96, of the Great Court of the Kingdom Court in 1697; Filippo, who, with the privilege of January 7, 1710, obtained the title of baron ...
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BlazonGreco
Variations Last name: Grecco
1. Coat of arms of family: Greco
Language of the text: Italiano
D'azzurro, alla cometa d'argento, ondeggiante in palo, accompagnata da tre conchiglie dello stesso, due in capo e una in punta.
Blasone della famigia Greco dalla Sicilia, corona del ramo di Palermo. Fonte: "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol. primo, pag. 499, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1890.
D'azzurro, alla "Y" d'oro sormontata da un chiavistello del medesimo, al capo in arco di rosso sostenuto da una divisa centrata d'argento e caricato di tre stelle di quest'ultimo
Blasone della famiglia Greco in Rossano (Cs). Fonte bibliografica: ""Cenno storico della città di Rossano e delle sue nobili famiglie" di Luca de Rosis, Napoli, 1838.
Blasone della famiglia Greco o del Greco in Modigliana. Fonte bibliografica: "Raccolta Ceramelli Papiani" custodita presso l'archivio di stato di Firenze fasc.762.
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