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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Signori
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A bishop of the Viscontile branch of the lords of Montemarzino who sat on the episcopal chair of Tortona when in 1155 the city was besieged by Barbarossa, the first news on the chronology of the family was published. Exhausted from their office with the establishment in 1122 of the "Signorile Municipality of Tortona" the Viscounts were expelled following an attempt to regain the lost authority - it is not given to us to state whether on behalf of the bishop or the Malaspina both invested with the municipal authority - and relegated to their castles from which they sent messengers to the emperor inviting him to intervene to subdue the city. It is probable that the M. as the Grondona and the Montacuto, more conciliatory, abstained from this invitation, since during the siege, in addition to the bishop, his relatives also lived in Tortona that the chronicles of the ...
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The Heraldic Traces are dossiers made by an A.I. useful as a starting point for researchers and passionate heraldists and confirm that there is information to work on and it is possible to order a heraldic document.
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
