Gentilcore, certainly from Campania, is specific of the Benevento area, of Molinara in particular and of Foiano di Val Fortore, but it should originate from the Salerno area, it should derive from the medieval name Gentilcore attributed to its own son with the hope that it would grow kindly, traces of we find this surname between the end of 1000 and the beginning of 1100 with the abbot Costabile Gentilcore (1064-1024), a native of the area of Monte Tresino (SA), the fourth abbot of the Abbey of Cava dei Tirreni, made a saint, famous also due to the fact that in 1123, a year before his death, the construction of the Castle began which gave rise to the name of the town of Castellabate in the Salerno area. The noble family of Gentilcore seems to have Leonetto Gentilcore as its progenitor, who in the 1500s received the barony of Corbella and Cicerale in the Salerno area from the Aragons.
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