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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili
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On 13 September 1303 the nobleman Guglielmo di Mels dictated his will, ordering his sons Asquino, Mattiusso and Vicardo to build a chapel near the castle of Colloredo to perpetuate the memory of the times when the emperor Conrad II had gone to Rome (1026) accompanied by his brothers Enrico and Labrodo di Waldsee, originally from Swabia, and ancestors of the testator. The chroniclers and several ancient historians of Friuli, in reporting this tradition, put in writing for the first time by the aforementioned Guglielmo, accepted it as the German emperors themselves, issuing noble diplomas to the members of the family, and calling them legitimate successors of the extinct lineage of the Waldsee, did nothing but support its credibility. Now modern historical criticism considers this tradition, which was too easily accepted by genealogists of our time (Crollalanza and others), unacceptable for the following reasons: I) because the original will of ...
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BlazonMels
1. Coat of arms of family: Mels
Language of the text: Italiano
Inquartato: al primo e quarto di nero alla fascia di argento; al secondo e terzo di argento alla banda di nero scalinata; sul tutto di nero alla fascia d'argento carica di un'aquila bicipite del campo coronata d'oro. Cimiero: Primo un cinghiale di nero, armato d'argento, linguato di rosso, nascente e rivoltato: secondo il semivolo destro di nero caricato di una fascia d'argento; terzo l'aquila sorante di nero caricata di una fascia d'argento, coronata e rostrata d'oro; quarto il moro posta in maestà e nascente, vestito d'argento, attorcigliato d'oro, tenente con la destra tre frecce d'oro, con la sinistra un arco dello stesso; quinta testa e collo di cane bracco con un filetto di nero scorciato a spina di pesce, caricante l'orecchio. Sostegni: Due leoni d'oro coronati, affrontati con le code bifide.
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