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Variations Last name: Rosso,Russo di Cerami
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
Ancient and very noble family, called Russo or Rosso, which is of Norman origin, known in Sicily, since the XII century, where it owned the principality of Cerami, the counties of Aidone, Collesano, Sclafani; the baronies of Baccarati and Petralia, Callura and Lamia, Caltavuturo, Camitrice, Cartolaro, Cerami, Foresta di Lignaria or de Castro, San Giorgio, Granito or Aderniti, Santa Margherita, Militello, Miserendino, Pardo, Piscopo, Prato, Rataglusu, Saponara, Schirone, Sottana, Sperlinga, Targia and Vigliatore. Rosso descends from Ugone, from whom the cognomination derives, count of Sperlinga in 1132, son of Guglielmo D'Altavilla di Tancredi D'Altavilla and brother of Ruggero, of the real Norman house of Sicily. He enjoyed nobility in Messina, Palermo, Catania, Castrogiovanni, Troina, etc. A Rosso, according to Villabianca (Sicilia Nobile, vol. I, p. 109), was in 1132 baron of Sperlinga; another Rosso, baron of Cerami, was the standard bearer of King Peter I of Aragon; a Federico was ...
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BlazonRusso
Variations Last name: Rosso,Russo di Cerami
1. Coat of arms of family: Russo
Language of the text: Italiano
Troncato di rosso e di oro, al leone dell'uno e dell'altro.
Blasone della famiglia Russo in Campania, fonte: "Enciclopedia Storico-Nobiliare Italiana di V. Spreti" suppl. II.
Blasone (alias) della famiglia Russo nobili in Campania e Puglia. Fonte bibliografica del blasone: "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.III, pag. 289, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888.
Blasone della famiglia Russo nobile in Campania e Puglia. Fonte bibliografica del blasone: "Enciclopedia Storico-Nobiliare Italiana di V. SPRETI", suppl.2 .
Troncato d'oro e di rosso, al leone rampante dall'uno all'altro.
Stemma della famiglia Russo nobile in Campania e Puglia. Fonte bibliografica del blasone: "Enciclopedia Storico-Nobiliare Italiana di V. SPRETI", suppl.2 .
Di rosso, alla cometa d'oro ondeggiante in palo. Motto: Serenat.
Blasone della famiglia Russo, Rossi o Rosso nobile in Sicilia. Fonte: "Nobiliario di Sicilia" di Antonio Mango di Casalgerardo (Palermo, A. Reber, 1912).
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