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Variations Last name: Spadafora Branciforte,Spatafora
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
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Spadafora
Variations Last name: Spadafora Branciforte,Spatafora
Família antiga e nobre que se acredita ser originária de Constantinopla e ostentando como fundador na Sicília um Basílio, exarca do imperador Isaac Comnenus em 1098. A Giovanni foi secretário do imperador Frederico II, 1230; um Pietro Damiano foi o primeiro barão de Roccella, 1250; um Ruggero, barão de Roccella, recebeu o castelo de Maletto em 13 de abril de 1344; um Matteo foi senador de Messina em 1358, um Rinaldo, irmão de Ruggero, comprou de volta as terras e o castelo de Maletto em 1385 e casou-se com: I) Granata Castagna, de quem era dono do feudo de Cutò; II) Costanza Castellis que lhe trouxe como dote os feudos de Michinesi e Caccione; o soldado Berardo obteve a concessão das terras de Cerami em 12 de outubro de 1356; soldado Federico, capitão e castelão de Taormina, 1399, carrasco de Val Demone, 1403, com privilégio de 17 de maio de ...
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BlazonSpadafora
Variations Last name: Spadafora Branciforte,Spatafora
1. Coat of arms of family: Spadafora
Language of the text: Italiano
Di rosso al braccio armato, tenente una spada posta in sbarra, il tutto al naturale. Cimiero: Due liocorni d'argento ritti e affrontati. Motto: PRODES IN BELLO.
Blasone della famiglia Spadafora, Spatafora o SPadafora Branciforte dalla Sicilia.
Fonti: "Nobiliario di Sicilia" di Antonio Mango di Casalgerardo (Palermo, A. Reber, 1912); Teatro Genologico delle Famiglie Nobili Titolate Feudatarie ed Antiche Nobili del fidelissimo Regno di Sicilia viventi ed estinte"
Libro III, del S.Don Fialdelfio Mugnos, Palermo 1647.
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