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Last name: Grifeo

Dossier: 1824
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Language of the text: Italiano
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Grifeo


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Nobility crown GrifeoAntica e nobile famiglia siciliana, che si vuole d'origine greca e proveniente da Niceforo Focas. Il Villabianca scrive: "Graffeo, famiglia che prende sua origine dagl'imperatori Greci, e da Euripione Graffeo con la Casa Reale Normanna, come asseriscono Gaspare Sardo e Michele Riccio, concordemente con altri storici, perlocchè vive ella in gran pregio di nobiltà in tutto il Regno di Sicilia e specialmente in questa nostra Palermo, ove è molto onusta si tutti e di supreme prerogative". Il Mugnus dice che il primo ad assumere il cognome di Grifeo sia stato Leone Foca che nel 970 uccise il capitano dei Bulgari Grifeo e adottò per sè e suoi successori lo stemma col grifo e il cognome Grifeo. Rimandiamo il lettore all'Historia Byzantina del Du Cange e diciamo soltanto che la famiglia Graffeo o Grifeo è molto nobile ed antica ed ha dato molti uomini degni di menzione per le cariche occupate, ...

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Blazon Grifeo

Coat of arms of family Graffeo

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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