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Variations Last name: De Tocco di Montemiletto,Di Tocco,Tocco Cantelmo Stuart,Tocco delle Bande,Tocco delle Onde,Toccolini
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Tocco
Variations Last name: De Tocco di Montemiletto,Di Tocco,Tocco Cantelmo Stuart,Tocco delle Bande,Tocco delle Onde,Toccolini
Very ancient and very noble Lombard family, whose numerous branches made their home and enjoyed nobility in Venice, Naples, Benevento, Capua, Tropea, Chieti and Nicotera, also obtaining the title of Grand Duke and the Spanish Order of the Golden Fleece and extending their power to the Ionian islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia. In any case, the presence of the Tocco family in the Benevento area is already attested in the 11th century, or at the time of the Byzantine emperor Alessio I Comneno. The origin of this cognomination, in the name of illustrious genealogists, should be sought in the Lordship of Tocco, one of their many properties. The family was also divided into two main branches, namely that of the Tocco delle Onde and that of the Tocco delle Bande, which enjoyed great nobility in Naples, where the whole family was aggregated to the Patriziato dei Seggi di Capuana and ...
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BlazonTocco
Variations Last name: De Tocco di Montemiletto,Di Tocco,Tocco Cantelmo Stuart,Tocco delle Bande,Tocco delle Onde,Toccolini
1. Coat of arms of family: Tocco
Language of the text: Italiano
D'argento a tre fasce d'azzurro. Motto.SI QUA FATA SINANT. Cimiero: il Pegaso alato.
Tocco o Di Tocco o De Tocco di Montemiletto o Tocco delle Onde o Tocco delle Bande, o Tocco Cantelmo Stuart (Napoli, Tropea, Catanzaro, Messina) Titoli: duchi, marchesi, conte, principi di Montemiletto, di Acaia, e di Etolia, grandi di Spagna di prima classe e patrizi di Tropea.
Fonte: Archivio Storico di Heraldrys Institute of Rome.
D'azzurro, con quattro fascie ondate d'argento. Corona di barone.
Tocco di Sicilia, titoli: barone di Imbrici; conte di Montesarchio; principe di Montemiletto.
Fonte: "Blasone In Sicilia ossia Raccolta Araldica" V. Palizzolo Gravina, Palermo 1871-75, p. 363.
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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