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Language of the text: Italiano
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Variations Last name: della Rocca,la Rocca,Larocca,Rocha
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Rocca
Variations Last name: della Rocca,la Rocca,Larocca,Rocha
Some genealogists assert that this family originated in Pisa, others from Catalonia; opinion that is founded on the fact that in 1398 there was a Bartolomeo Rocca, Catalan, with Palermitan citizenship. A William was in the Order of Malta, prior of the Grand Priory of Messina in 1294, an Apollonius owned some lands in Scicli (RG) under Frederick II; a Guccio was deputy secret of Noto in 1398, a Bartholomew obtained on May 29 1398 concession of the Racarciofoli fief; a Giovanni was senator of Catania in 1414-15, 1420-21, 1443-44, 1448-49, 1454-55; a Charles was senator of Messina in 1469-70; an Antonio was senator of Messina in the years 1502-3, 1516-17, bought the fiefs Colla Soprana and Sottana from Giovan Ferdinando Platamone and was invested on 6 June 1513 and 15 July 1519, he bought the land of Raccuia from Francesco Valdina and he was invested on 22 February 1522, ...
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BlazonRocca
Variations Last name: della Rocca,la Rocca,Larocca,Rocha
1. Coat of arms of family: Rocca
Language of the text: Italiano
Partito: nel primo d'argento alla croce scorciata e potenziata, piantata sulla vetta di un monte di tre cime, uscente dalla punta, il tutto di rosso; nel secondo d'azzurro al leone sormontato da una gemella posta in banda, il tutto d'oro.
D'azzurro, a tre pedine da scacchiera d'argento, ordinate in fascia; col capo d'oro, all'aquila di nero, rostrata e membrata di rosso, coronata d'oro.
Rocca o Rocha dal Veneto, nobili in Verona. Fonte bibliografica: "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.
Blasone della famiglia della Rocca dal Piemonte, insigniti del titolo di Conti.
Fonte bibliografica: "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap - Deuxième èdition refondue et augmentée - Tome II L-Z" p. 584.
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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