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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Notabili - Nobili - Conti
Nobles in:Italia - Grecia
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Variations Last name: Metaxa Mirarco
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 illustrious Calabrian family, of clear and ancestral virtue, which has spread over the centuries in various regions of Italy. Several legends are handed down on its origin. Some claim that she was originally from Greece and in fact her surname would appear from the Greek "μεράρχης", captain, decurion; others want it to descend from the Marquises Mira of Palermo. What appears undoubted is its valuable settlement in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies since at least the late seventeenth century, with greater concentrations in Calabria. This family then contracted noble and illustrious relatives; above all that with the noble Metaxà, counts of Kefalonia, from which the Metaxà-Mirarco counts. Over the decades, the Mirarco family has always distinguished itself for having given birth to notable personalities, valuable in the exercise of liberal professions, in local administrations, in military and ecclesiastical careers. From our archives: Don Pietro M., priest in ...
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D'azzurro, ad un mondo d'argento, cinto e crociato d'oro, sormontato da una colomba d'argento tenente nel becco un ramoscello di more al naturale.
Blasone della famiglia Metaxà e Metaxà Mirarco (Conti). Fonte bibliografica del blasone: "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap - Deuxième èdition refondue et augmentée - Tome II L-Z".
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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
