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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Cavalieri
Nobles in:Italia
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Ancienne famille sicilienne, de vertu claire et ancestrale, répartie au cours des siècles dans diverses régions d'Italie. L'origine de ce nom de famille, selon d'illustres généalogistes, devrait être recherchée, par des altérations dialectales, dans un surnom, qui trouve son origine au-dessus du terme grec "pityra" (= son), peut-être parce que l'ancêtre en était le producteur ou le vendeur. En tout cas, cette famille fut probablement décorée de la chevalerie, suite à la participation, sous les bannières aragonaises, caractérisée par le courage et la vertu, d'un Ignazio Pittera à la guerre d'Otrante, de 1481, contre les Ottomans. Mais, d'un autre côté, la famille a toujours réussi à se démarquer, grâce aux hautes personnalités, auxquelles elle a donné naissance. Parmi ceux-ci, nous rappelons : Flavio, soldat royal, vivant à Syracuse, en 1398 ; Silvestro, secrétaire du roi Ladislao D'Angiò Durazzo, vivant en 1414 ; Giacomo, soldat et membre de la famille du roi ...
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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.
BlazonPittera
Coat of arms of family
Language of the text: Italiano
Spaccato; nel primo di rosso al leone nascente dalla partizione d'oro, nel secondo scaccato di verde e d'oro.
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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