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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Notabili - Cavalieri - Nobili
Nobles in:Italia - Germania (Lombardia - Sassonia)
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Ancient and notable Lombard family, of clear and ancestral virtue, spread over the centuries in various regions of Italy. Tradition has it that this family originated in Saxony and more precisely that it descends from the noble Saxon family of the Mettichs, a branch of which - between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - wanted to be in Milan and that there, due to the usual phenomena of dialect phonics or more likely to hide the Germanic foreign origin - at that time Milan was under Spanish domination - the surname has been changed to Mettica. Memory of the ancient Saxon lineage remains in the weapon, still common today. In any case, the representatives of the Mettica family appear in notable social positions since at least the end of the seventeenth century. From our archives: Niccolò Mettica, landowner, flourishing in the Pavia area in 1687; Giacomo Mettica, notary in Milan, ...
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When you buy a heraldic document a new accurate analysis of the heraldic research will be performed by an expert heraldist and the document will be written in Italian or English.
The coat of arms will be checked and, if necessary, redesigned in strict compliance with the heraldic rules by our experts.
BlazonMettica
1. Coat of arms of family: Mettica
Language of the text: Italiano
D'argento al leone di verde.
Stemma ricostruito sulla scorta del blasone della famiglia Mettich dalla Sassonia che si ritiene rappresentativo del casato Mettica radicato in Italia.
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