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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili - Baroni
Nobles in:Italia (Sicilia - Calabria)
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Variations Last name: de Vita,di Vita
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
Ancient and very noble Sicilian family, of clear and ancestral virtue, which has spread over the centuries in various regions of Italy. The origin of this cognomination, according to authoritative genealogists, should be sought in the Latin surname, "Vitus", probably brought from a now unknown progenitor. In any case, this illustrious lineage, which enjoyed nobility in Messina, Randazzo and Lentini, at the direction of Mugnos, already shone in the thirteenth century, or when a Gerardo, captain of four hundred horses, flourished under King Peter of Aragon, whom we find also castellano di Matagrifone, in Messina, by concession of king Giacomo, in the year 1291. On the other hand, this family, in the unfolding of its luster, has always managed to produce a series of men who have made his name famous, in the public jobs, in liberal and ecclesiastical professions and in military service. Among these, without raising the value ...
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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.
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BlazonVita
Variations Last name: de Vita,di Vita
1. Coat of arms of family: Vita
Language of the text: Italiano
D’azzurro, alla vite al naturale impalata e fruttifera d’oro.
Fonti Bibliografiche: "Nobiliario di Sicilia" di Antonio Mango di Casalgerardo (Palermo, A. Reber, 1912); "Blasone In Sicilia ossia Raccolta Araldica" V. Palizzolo Gravina, Palermo 1871-75, p. 381; "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.III, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888.
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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
