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Sanseverino is a very popular surname in the south, in Campania, especially in Neapolitan, Avellino and Salerno, in Lucania, in the Bari, in the Tarentine and in the Cosentino and in the Palermitano, Sansiverino and Sanseverini are almost unique and are probably due to errors of Transcription of the first, should derive from place names such as Mercato San Severino in Salerno, San Severino Lucano in the Potentino or other similar. The House of Sanseverino is of Originer Normanna, one of the first houses of the Kingdom of Naples; The Sanseverino had, in the Kingdom of Naples, a very special treatment, always reconfirmed by all the successive sovereigns on that throne. It is clear proof of the exceptional and unique privilege granted to the Sanseverino and confirmed to the house also by Charles V in 1520: «In Quantumcunque remotus etiam tenth et further gradu restaurant ex quacumque transverse line, Adscenders seu descendenti... Et Inter Ipsos de cognomine de Sancto Severino progeniture et gradus servatur...
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