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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili - Patrizi
Nobles in:Italia
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The greatness of this family is due to Sixtus IV (della Rovere). Pietro and Girolamo, sons of a sister of that Pope, were the first Patriarch of Constantinople, Archbishop of Florence and Seville and Cardinal in 1471; the second married Caterina, the natural daughter of Francesco Sforza Duke of Milan and added the Sforzesco surname to her own. He was Prince of Imola and Forlì, Grand Contestabile and captain general of the pontifical arms. Raffaele Galeotti, grandson of the previous ones, took the surname Riario and was created Cardinal in 1477. He had the title of Saints Lorenzo and Damaso and became Vice Chancellor of SRC He had the grandiose building of the Apostolic Chancellery built with the drawings of Bramante, where you can see repeated the coat of arms of the Riario. Later Alessandro Riario was created cardinal by Pius V (1578) and Tommaso and Sisto Riario Sforza also ...
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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
