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ZAMPAGLIONE | ZAMPAGLIONI

Zampaglione is typical of the Reggino, Montebello Ionic and Melito di Porto Salvo, Zampaglioni, probably originated from a mistake of transcription of the previous, is typical of Tivoli and Rome, according to some derives from the surname French Zampignon, in the new chronic of Giovanni Villani The name Zampaglione was reported in Siena in the year 1333: "... The year MCCCXXXIII, and there being for podestà Teghia of Meser Bindo de ' bondelmonti and for Captain Zampaglione de ' Tornaquinci, the sect of the citizens who loved the sanesi, and treated them, began the insomuch and battle in the city, and Abarrarsi in the Earth.... The name may derive from the hypochoristic of an archaic term that meant lefty to indicate this physical characteristic of the ancestor. Additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Zampaglione is a Calabrian surname that comes from the dialect term of that region ' zampagliune ' = mosquito. Source: G. Rohlfs, Diz. of the Cogn. In Calabria, p. 280. Integrations provided by Alessandro Zampaglione Family originally from Calitri, whose components then moved to Rome and Naples. The title of nobility, transmissible to legitimate and natural descendants, was confirmed to the Zampaglione family by decree of the head of the government of 15 August. 1929. Of the family we know the genealogical tree direct and uninterrupted since 1473. There are also historical testimonies in previous centuries. In particular, it is mentioned in two shots in the diurnal of the Duke of Monteleone. A Zampaglione would have been active in Naples, in the seat of Porta Capuana, a first time in 1384 as a follower of King Charles III of Durres and a second in 1394 as agreed to Gaeta by Ladislaus. According to some historian, the Zampaglione family would have been linked to those of the Gesualda and the Loffredi, now extinct, from which he inherited some feudal rights. Weapon: Party: To the 1st of Red to the band sewn of Blue accompanied above by a branch of lion outgoing from the partition, Lieutenant a lily; Under a lily, the whole of gold; At 2 ° of Blue to the band of Red, sewn, accompanied on by three stars placed in the band, and under a quarter of sun of the radiant Rnedesimo, outgoing from the upper right-hand corner of the fourth. (News taken from the Yearbook of the Italian nobility)

Bibliographic source' "L'origine dei cognomi Italianim storia ed etimologia" di E. Rossoni disponibile online su: https://archive.org/


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