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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Principi
Nobles in:Italia
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Originally from Catalonia, it was brought to Sicily in 1282 by Ugone and Porzio Santapau who followed King Peter I of Aragon there. It enjoyed nobility in Palermo and Messina and was awarded the Golden Fleece. He owned 38 fiefdoms, the marquisate of Licodia and the principalities of Butera and Pietrapersia. Raimondo presid. of the kingdom of Sicily in 1485; Pontius captain general and presid. of the reign of Sicily in 1516; Matteo viceroy in Sicily in the same year; Ambrogio princ. of Butera, straticò of Messina, master executioner, captain general and presid. of the kingdom of Sicily in 1546; Charles and Pontius straticò of Messina, the first in 1560, and the other 1573. Francesco Santapau march. by Licodia, princ. of Butera and cav. del Toson d'Oro died without heirs in 1576 leaving his property to his daughter Camilla, and the principality of Butera passed to his sister Antonia married ...
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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
