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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili - Signori - Baroni
Nobles in:Italia (Campania - Puglia - Basilicata)
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Variations Last name: Montefoscoli,Montefoscolo
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 very noble Apulian family, of clear and ancestral virtue, which has spread over the centuries in various regions of Italy. Of Norman origin, it was known as Montefuscolo or Montefusco; from the name of the fiefdom in his possession in 1100. It should be noted here that the original form of the surname did not always remain intact over the centuries with its primitive spelling. Often due to incorrect transcriptions, dialect transformations according to the regions where the lineage was gradually brought, the incomprehensible writing of the scribes etc., there were modifications of phonetics and spelling. In any case, this illustrious family enjoyed nobility in Lecce and Taranto; an important branch also flourished in the city of Naples. She wore the dress of Malta in 1586 and was lady of the following fiefdoms: Cellino, Colonito, Cordano, Festolano, Lentace, S.Maria a Vico, Zuncolo, Montaperto, Bagnuolo, Spezzano, Ceppaloni, Tursi, Grumo, ...
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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.
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BlazonMontefusco
Variations Last name: Montefoscoli,Montefoscolo
1. Coat of arms of family: Montefuscolo
Language of the text: Italiano
Di nero, al capo d'argento, sostenuto dalla divisa d'oro e caricato da un monte di cinque cime di nero.
Blasone della famiglia in Napoli. Fonte bibliografica del blasone: "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.
Spaccato d'argento e di nero, caricato il primo al monte di tre cime del secondo; colla fascia in divisa d'argento, attraversante sulla partizione.
Blasone della famiglia in Lecce e Taranto. Fonte bibliografica del blasone: "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