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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili
Nobles in:Italia
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Variations Last name: Volognano
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
This family is of Norman origin and took its name from the castle of Valignano or Volognano, which was destroyed by King Charles I of Anjou. It has enjoyed nobility in the cities of Naples at the Seggi di Porto and Portanova, Lucera, Chieti where it enjoyed the primary prerogatives in Rome where it is ascribed to the Capitol as belonging to the patriciate. The Valignano family dressed in the dress of Malta in the year 1553, and obtained the title of Count Palatini. The noble branches in Naples and the noble branches in Lucera went extinct. The Valignano branch, Dukes of Alanno, became extinct in the Bassi family. This family built the Church of S. Lucia and that of S. Anna in Chieti with the Collegio de 'Padri of the Pious Schools. Monuments rise in Chieti in the Duomo and in the churches of the PP. Sunday, of the Reformed, of the PP. Capuchins, de 'PP. Crociferi, of S. Francesco, of S. Chiara and in the monastery of S. Maria: in Penne in the Church of S. Givoanni in Jerusalem: in Ceppagatti and in Miglianico. Among the most illustrious members of the family we remember Trasmando, Councilor of Emperor Frederick II, from whom Ambassador was sent to end the discord between the Bolognese and the Florentines. Eleuterio, took part in the carousel given in Barletta by King Manfredi in honor of Emperor Baldovino: and with him Alberto Piscicello, Cataldo and Iacopo Protontino of Taranto. The said Eleutherius having won victory in the merry-go-round over many jousting players, he grasped one hand. Family motto: Decoravit integritatem et servavit odorem. ...
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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
