When you buy a heraldic document a new accurate analysis of the heraldic research will be performed by an expert heraldist and the document will be written in Italian or English.
The coat of arms will be checked and, if necessary, redesigned in strict compliance with the heraldic rules by our experts.
Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili - Baroni - Conti - Marchesi
Nobles in:Italia
The country or region of the dossier mainly refers to the places where the family was ascribed to the nobility and may be different from those of residence
Antica ed assai nobile famiglia italiana, originaria di Cava de' Tirreni, propagatasi, primieramente, in Amalfi e, successivamente, in Toscana ed in Emilia Romagna e che già nel 1208 ottenne l’investitura del feudo di Ajello, presso Castel San Giorgio. In ogni modo, le più antiche memorie della famiglia sembrano derivare dalla Svizzera e più esattamente da Ginevra, dove si hanno loro ricordi dal 932, così come è riportato in un manoscritto del monastero dei padri Liguorini in Deliceto (FG). Addirittura nella sua opera “Famiglie notabili milanesi” lo storico Felice Calvi, scrive che gli storiografi fanno risalire al IV sec. d. C. l’origine dei Villani di Milano e che Bernardino Corio, nella sua storia, parlando di S. Ambrogio, afferma che “qui seco trasse gente di quattro parentele romane, cioè, Grassi, Villani, Matrignani e Muciani; delle quali famiglie in questa città sono discendenti molti uomini egregi”. I Villani d'altronde li troviamo tra i ...
When you buy a heraldic document a new accurate analysis of the heraldic research will be performed by an expert heraldist and the document will be written in Italian or English.
The coat of arms will be checked and, if necessary, redesigned in strict compliance with the heraldic rules by our experts.
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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