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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Patrizi - Cavalieri
Nobles in:Italia
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Ancient and illustrious family, born from the union of two very noble families: that of Persano and that of Adorno. The latter is a Genoese patrician and dogal family, which in the second fifty years of the fourteenth century and throughout the century. XV went up in the highest degree. The historians and genealogists had various origins and origins, among which the legend of the Teutonic origin liked to prevail. It should be believed, on the contrary, that she had origin and name from the hamlet of Adorno, which is near Tàggia in the extreme Riviera di Ponente. A first memory of the family is found in the mention of that Anna Felice widow, made on 1186 (12 January) in a notarial deed. This same or other namesake testified in an instrument of 1210 (Oct. 15); and so a Barisone and a Pietro (1212) appear from that time, from which ...
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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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BlazonPersano Adorno
1. Coat of arms of family: Adorno, Adorni
Language of the text: Italiano
D'oro alla banda scaccata di 3 file di argento e di nero.
Blasone della famiglia Adorno, fonti: "Enciclopedia Storico-Nobiliare Italiana di V. SPRETI"; "Nobiliario di Sicilia" di Antonio Mango di Casalgerardo (Palermo, A. Reber, 1912) custodito presso la biblioteca centrale della regione Sicilia; (Adorni) "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap - Deuxième èdition refondue et augmentée".
Note: Famiglia originaria di Genova propagata in Messina ove godette la nobiltà nei secoli XVI e XVII. Si ha notizia di un frate Antonio nella Mastra, nobile del Mollica, lista XIV, anno 1600. La famiglia passò anche in Siracusa ove figurarò prima nel ceto cittadino e vestì la toga senatoria, fra gli altri, nella persona di un Carmelo negli anni 1746-47, 1754-55, 1757-58 e, successivamente, nel ceto nobile e vestì ancora la toga senatoria con un Giovanni negli anni 1796-97.
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