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Very noble and very ancient Tuscan family, originating from Gubbio, whose branches were transplanted in many Italian cities, such as Forlimpopoli, Brisighella, Bologna and Rome, Verona, Faenza, Lucca, Pistoia, Macerata, Pesaro, Rieti, Spoleto, Ruvo di Puglia, always enjoying the highest privileges associated with their class. The family recognizes as its progenitor a certain Alerano Artesino, who, towards the year 967, showed himself in Gubbio in his military career, so much so that he was nicknamed "Spada". An inscription in the family chapel, located in the church of S. Girolamo della Carità, commemorates three Spada brothers, who allegedly saved St. Francis of Assisi from some thieves, giving him hospitality in Gubbio in 1206. Another inscription commemorates Blessed Guido, who died in Bologna in 1306. In 1353, Cecco, a direct ancestor of the Spada di Roma, was forced by the Guelph party to move to the Ghibelline city of Forlimpopoli. Subsequently, the ...
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BlazonSpada
1. Coat of arms of family: Spada
Language of the text: Italiano
Di rosso, a tre spade d'argento, impugnate d'oro, poste in banda, una sopra l'altra.
Stemma (alias) della famiglia Spada in Gubbio e Bologna fregiata dei titoli marchionali e principeschi. 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.
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