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Nobility: Nobles - Knights
Nobles in:Italy (Lombardy - Liguria)
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Ancient and noble family from Genoa, of clear and ancestral virtue, that has worldwide spread, over the centuries. According to what has been handed down, this noble House is indeed originally from France. The oldest exponent of which we have memory is Ugo Rovello, the nineteenth Grand Master of the sacred Jerusalem religion. His election took place in 1260 in the city of Ptolemais; he was originally from the province of Dauphiné. Knight of great eloquence and with a great heart, he governed his Religion with singular prudence and, after having celebrated five General Chapters in it, passed on to enjoy the reward of his glories in heaven in 1278. It was therefore his descendants who moved to Genoa where they appear to be present as silk workers since the 14th century. At the end of 1311, for example, Bonino Rovello placed his daughter Richetta with a widow for eight ...
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BlazonRovello
1. Coat of arms of family: Rovello
Language of the text: English
Azure, an a mount in base an oak-tree, branches per saltire, all proper, between two lions, gules, affrontant.
Coat of arms of family Rovello. Source: "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.II, compiled by Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edited by "la direzione del giornale araldico", Pisa 1888.
Per fesse gules and argent, three wheels (2,1) counterchanged.
Blazon of family Rovello in Lombardy reconstructed from a drawing in the work "Gallerie d'imprese, arme ed insegne de varii Regni, Ducati, Provincie e Città, e terre dello Stato di Milano et anco di diverse famiglie d'Italia con l'ordine delle corone, cimieri, et altri ornamenti spettanti ad esse et il significato de' colori, et altre particolarità, chè a dette arme s'appartengono" by Marco Cremosano, Milan, 1673.
Or, a castle double-towered, ghibelline embattled, surmounted by a moor's head proper, filleted argent.
Blazon (alias) of family Rovello in Lombardy reconstructed from a drawing in the work "Gallerie d'imprese, arme ed insegne de varii Regni, Ducati, Provincie e Città, e terre dello Stato di Milano et anco di diverse famiglie d'Italia con l'ordine delle corone, cimieri, et altri ornamenti spettanti ad esse et il significato de' colori, et altre particolarità, chè a dette arme s'appartengono" by Marco Cremosano, Milan, 1673.
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