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Language of the text: English
Nobility: Nobles - Co-Lords - Counts
Nobles in:Italy (Piedmont)
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Variations Last name: Mentoni
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 noble Italian family, originally from Piedmont, of clear and ancestral virtue, that has worldwide spread, over the centuries. As reported by the historian and heraldist Antonio Manno, who was also the King's commissioner for the Heraldic Consultation from 1880 until his death, it originated in Cherasco but its possessions also extended to Saluzzo and Fossano. Descendants of the French nobles Menthon, the Mentone of Piedmont had the titles of Counts of Torre d'Isola and co-lords of Cavallermaggiore. The progenitor is identified as Captain Bernardino, from which Giambattista. Many and valuable the representatives of this lineage. We remember: Marco Mentone, who registered the family coat of arms in 1579; Agostino Mentone, lieutenant of the cavalry of Count Martinengo, who, with his son Giangiacomo, was decorated with the title of Count (1582, April 24; Patents 17, 166); Biagio Mentone (+ December 16, 1588), sergeant major of Savigliano (1561, March 30), ...
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BlazonMentone
Variations Last name: Mentoni
1. Crest of family: Mentone
Language of the text: Italiano
Di rosso, alla fascia d'argento. Cimiero: Un uomo selvaggio, tenente con ambedue le mani una mazza in atto di percuotere. Motto: A BUONA SPERANZA
Blasone della famiglia Mentone da Cherasco, in Fossano e Saluzzo; fonte bibliografica: "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.II, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888.
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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
