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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili - Patrizi
Nobles in:Italia
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Ancient and very noble Venetian family, of clear and ancestral virtue, which has spread over the centuries in various regions of Italy. The origin of this cognomination must be sought in a nickname based on the gray color, with reference to beard and hair of this tint, indicative of an age that is no longer young. According to some heraldic reconstructions, the family would have a common agnation with the Reggio, Sicilian princes branched all over Italy and sometimes demographically transcribed in a different way. In any case, according to what is handed down to us, the Griggio family was admitted to the patrician Venetian for merits acquired in the war of Candia and following the usual donation of one hundred thousand ducats. On the other hand, this family, in the unfolding of its luster, has always managed to produce a series of men who have made its name famous, ...
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BlazonGriggio
1. Coat of arms of family: Riggio
Language of the text: Italiano
D'azzurro, alla fascia accompagnata da tre stelle di sei raggi, in capo sormontate da una cometa, ed una in punta, il tutto d'oro.
Riggio, Reggio o Griggio originari della Sicilia.
Fonti:Archivio Storico di Heraldrys Institute of Rome; "Nobiliario di Sicilia" di Antonio Mango di Casalgerardo (Palermo, A. Reber, 1912).
Grigno o Griggio di Bassano.
Fonte bibliografica del blasone: "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.I, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888.
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