User:Tusculani/sandbox/Armorial of Italian Families Ao-Arf
This is the armorial of Italian noble families whose surname begins with the letters Ao to Arf.
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Aoldi (Andres, Venice)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 7178)". |
Ape
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| Apemo (Veneto)
Italian: d'azzurro, alla fascia d'oro caricata di tre rose del campo (Azure, a fess Or charged with three roses of the field) (cited in STBV) (image from the "Royal Armorial of Bavaria".) | |
| Apemo (Torcello, Venice)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 5675)". | |
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Apenna (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
Api
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Apiani
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 466)". |
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Apiani (Tuscany)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 2835)". |
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Apicella (Molise)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in DALE) |
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Apicella (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
| Apilia (Sicily)
Italian: d'azzurro, al leone d'oro, circondato da api dello stesso (Azure, a lion Or, surrounded by bees of the same) Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia". |
Apo
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Apocio (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
| Apolloni (Prato)
Italian: Partito: nel 1º d'oro, all'aquila di nero coronata del campo e uscente dalla partizione; nel 2º d'oro, alla croce di rosso, pure uscente dalla partizione, caricata di quattro crescenti volti d'argento, 1.2.1 (Party: in the 1st Or, an eagle sable crowned of the field issuing from the partition; in the 2nd Or, a cross gules, likewise issuing from the partition, charged with four crescents turned argent, 1.2.1) (cited in ASFI) | |
| Apolloni (Anagni)
Italian: d'argento al lauro sradicato di verde fruttato di rosso (Argent, a laurel eradicated vert fructed gules) (cited in SPRE – Vol. I p. 409) Laurel tree eradicated vert fructed gules on argent (cited in LEOM) | |
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Apollonio (Molise)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in DALE) |
| Aponte or D'Aponte (Sicily)
Italian: d'azzurro, alla fascia d'argento, ed in punta un ponte del secondo, sotto il quale passa un fiume dello stesso (Azure, a fess argent, and in base a bridge of the second, beneath which flows a river of the same) (cited in MANG) Azure with a fess argent, in base a bridge argent and below a river (cited in NBSC) Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia". | |
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Apostolico Orsini Ducas (Lecce)
Italian: troncato: sopra d'argento alla tiara consistente in una corona d'oro all'antica con berretto rosso, sormontata da tre rose dello stesso, e sinistrata da una banderuola pure di rosso carica della mezzaluna crescente d'argento, astata d'oro in palo; sotto mareggiato d'azzurro e d'argento; col capo d'oro carico di un serpe di nero (Per fess: above argent, a tiara consisting of an antique crown Or with a red cap, surmounted by three roses of the same, and on the sinister a banner also gules charged with an increscent moon argent, staffed Or in pale; below, sea wavy azure and argent; with a chief Or charged with a serpent sable) (cited in SPRE – Vol. IX p. 223) Red cap on crown Or on argent — 3 red roses above placed in fess — red banner charged with a moon argent on argent — sea wavy argent and azure — serpent sable in fess on Or in chief (cited in LEOM) |
App
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Appennino (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
| Appiani (Aosta, Turin) Title: Count of Castelletto d'Ussone, co-lords of Bergolo, Castino, Cocconato, Cortemiglia, Torre Bormida
Italian: di rosso, al castello d'argento, sormontato da un'aquila dello stesso, coronata d'oro, rivoltata (Gules, a castle argent, surmounted by an eagle of the same, crowned Or, reversed) (cited in SPRE – Vol. I p. 409 and in SUBL) Castle argent (two towers) surmounted by an eagle reversed of the same crowned Or on gules (cited in LEOM) Crest: an eagle gules, issuant Motto: Albescunt inedia pennae | |
| Appiani (Pisa)
Italian: Losangato di rosso e d'argento (Lozengy gules and argent) (cited in ASFI) alias Lozengy argent and sable (cited in ASFI) alias Quarterly: in the 1st and 4th arms of the Aragonese of Naples (Aragon, tierced in pale of Jerusalem, Anjou and ancient Hungary); in the 2nd and 3rd lozengy argent and sable (cited in ASFI) | |
| Appiani (Turin) Title: counts of Pino
Italian: D'azzurro, al castello d'argento, aperto del campo (Azure, a castle argent, open of the field) (cited in SUBL) alias Azure, a castle argent, with a chief Or, an eagle crowned sable (cited in SUBL) | |
| Appiani (Verrua)
Italian: Troncato, al 1° d'oro, alla rosa di rosso, bottonata del campo, gambuta e fogliata di verde, al 2° d'azzurro, alla fascia di rosso, cucita, carica di due api d'oro (Per fess, in the 1st Or, a rose gules, seeded of the field, stemmed and leaved vert; in the 2nd azure, a fess gules, cousu, charged with two bees Or) (cited in SUBL) | |
| Appiani d'Aragona (Piacenza) Title: co-lords of the marquisate of Ceva
Italian: Inquartato, al 1° e 4° d'azzurro, al leone d'oro (quello del 1° punto rivoltato alla tedesca), al 2° e 3° partito, d'oro, alla mezz'aquila di nero, coronata del campo, movente dalla partizione, e palato d'oro e di rosso; sul tutto, rombeggiato di rosso e d'oro (Quarterly, 1st and 4th azure, a lion Or (that of the 1st quarter reversed in the German manner); 2nd and 3rd party: Or, a demi-eagle sable crowned of the field issuant from the partition, and paly Or and gules; over all, lozengy gules and Or) (cited in SUBL) alias Quarterly, 1st and 4th per fess azure and Or, a lion counterchanged; 2nd and 3rd party: Or, a demi-eagle sable crowned of the field issuant from the partition, and paly Or and gules; over all, lozengy gules and Or Motto: Meminisse iuvabit – Si deus pro nobis qui contra nos? (cited in SUBL) | |
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Appiano (Molise)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in DALE) |
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Appii
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 4480)". |
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Appio (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
| Appio (Matera)
Bend argent on azure accompanied on the dexter by a moon reversed argent and in base on the sinister by a horse rampant proper issuing from a sea of the same gazing at a star (five-pointed) Or (cited in LEOM) | |
| Appollinario (Veneto)
Italian: d'argento, alla punta di verde sostenente un uccello di nero imbeccato d'oro (Argent, a point vert supporting a bird sable beaked Or) (cited in STBV) (image from the "Royal Armorial of Bavaria".) | |
| Appolloni (Colle di Val d'Elsa)
Italian: d'azzurro al cipresso di verde accostato da due leoni al naturale affrontati; il tutto sulla campagna erbosa al naturale (Azure, a cypress vert flanked by two lions proper facing each other; all upon a grassy field proper) (cited in SPRE – Vol. I p. 409) Azure, a cypress tree nourished on the ground and supported by two lions facing each other, all proper (cited in ASFI) Cypress vert flanked by 2 lions counter-rampant proper on a field of the same on azure (cited in LEOM) | |
| Appolloni (Arezzo)
Italian: Partito: nel 1º di rosso, all'aquila dal volo abbassato d'oro, coronata dello stesso, uscente dalla partizione; nel 2º d'argento, alla croce d'azzurro, pure uscente dalla partizione, e caricata di quattro crescenti montanti del campo, 1.2.1 (Party: in the 1st gules, an eagle with wings lowered Or crowned of the same issuing from the partition; in the 2nd argent, a cross azure likewise issuing from the partition, charged with four crescents ascendant of the field, 1.2.1) (cited in ASFI) | |
| Approvati (Trevi)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) Historical notes on the site of the "Associazione Pro Trevi". |
Apr
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Aprani (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (with star) (cited in NBNA) |
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Aprani (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (with eagle) (cited in NBNA) |
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Aprani (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (with crescent) (cited in NBNA) |
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Aprea (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
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Apreia (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
| Aprile and Aprile di Caltagirone (Caltagirone, Noto, Modica) Title: barons of Gima and Soprana
Italian: d'argento, alla fascia di rosso, accompagnata da tre rose del secondo, situate 2 in capo e 1 in punta (Argent, a fess gules, accompanied by three roses of the second, placed 2 in chief and 1 in base) (cited in SPRE – Vol. I p. 410, in MANG, in PRTS and in NBSC) Argent with a fess gules accompanied by three red roses placed 2 in chief and 1 in base. Baron's coronet (cited in NBSC) Fess gules on argent — 3 roses of the same on argent placed 2,1 (cited in LEOM) Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia". Further historical information in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia". | |
| Aprile di Palermo (Sicily)
Azure with a fess Or accompanied in chief by a fleur-de-lis argent, and in base by three six-pointed stars Or placed in fess (cited in NBSC) (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) | |
| Aprili or Grifoni (Susa) Title: co-lords of Bussoleno, S. Giorio, Susa
Italian: Di rosso, alla banda d'oro (Gules, a bend Or) (cited in SUBL) alias Gules, a bend argent (cited in SUBL) | |
| Aprosio or Approsio (Ventimiglia, Bologna)
Italian: d'oro alla fascia di rosso (Or, a fess gules) (cited in SPRE – Vol. IX p. 223) Fess gules on Or (cited in LEOM) | |
| Aprucio or Apruzzo (Sicily)
Italian: d'argento, a tre monti di rosso moventi dalla punta, sormontati da una corona dello stesso (Argent, three mountains gules issuing from the base, surmounted by a crown of the same) (cited in MANG) Argent with three red mountains surmounted in chief by a red crown (cited in NBSC) (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) |
Apu
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| Apulia or Apulo or Pulia or Puglisi (Sicily)
Italian: inquartato in croce di S. Andrea, il capo e la punta di rosso, ed ai fianchi d'argento. Corona di barone (Quarterly per saltire, chief and base gules, flanks argent. Baron's coronet) (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) | |
| Apuzzo (Naples)
Italian: d'argento, a tre bande di rosso; al capo del primo col pozzo di rosso, murato di nero, uscente dalla partizione (Argent, three bends gules; with a chief of the first charged with a well gules, masoned sable, issuing from the partition) (cited in NBNA) (Image in the "Trippini Arms Collection".) |
Aqu
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Aquano (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
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Aquaviva (Cesena)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in BLCW) Image in "Cesena Blazon". |
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Aquaviva (Naples)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 5524)". |
| Aquila or D'Aquila or Dell'Aquila (Sicily)
Italian: d'azzurro, all'aquila spiegata d'argento, coronata d'oro (Azure, an eagle displayed argent, crowned Or) (cited in MANG) | |
| Aquilani (Pisa)
Italian: D'azzurro, all'aquila dal volo abbassato d'oro, accompagnata in punta da una rosa d'argento (Azure, an eagle with wings lowered Or, accompanied in base by a rose argent) (cited in ASFI) alias Azure, an eagle with wings lowered argent, accompanied in base by a rose argent (cited in ASFI) | |
| Aquilani (Rome)
Italian: D'azzurro, all'aquila rivoltata, dal volo abbassato, d'argento seminata di stelle (5) d'oro, accompagnata in punta da una rosa d'oro (Azure, an eagle reversed with wings lowered argent, semé of five-pointed stars Or, accompanied in base by a rose Or) (image in RUST: "Aquilani" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04.) alias Azure, an eagle crowned Or surmounted by an eight-rayed star of the same and accompanied in base by a rose argent (cited in CAMP, vol. I, p. 54) | |
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Aquilante (Asolo)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in DALE) |
| Aquilanti (Florence)
Italian: D'oro, all'aquila dal volo abbassato di rosso, rostrata e membrata del campo (Or, an eagle with wings lowered gules, beaked and membered of the field) (cited in ASFI) | |
| Aquilanti (Tuscany) (cited in KHIF) | |
| Aquilera (Sicily)
Italian: d'azzurro, all'aquila spiegata d'oro (Azure, an eagle displayed Or) (cited in MANG) | |
| Aquilini (Viterbo)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (image from the "Royal Armorial of Bavaria".) | |
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Aquilino (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
| Aquilone (Messina)
Italian: di rosso, all'aquila spiegata e coronata di nero, tenente negli artigli un serpente di argento (Gules, an eagle displayed and crowned sable, holding in its talons a serpent argent) alias Gules with a black eagle crowned, holding between its talons a green serpent (cited in NBSC) (Historical note in "Noble families of Sicily".) | |
| Aquilotti (Pistoia)
Italian: Di rosso, all'aquila dal volo abbassato, sostenuta da un nido dal quale escono due teste di aquilotti, il tutto d'oro (Gules, an eagle with wings lowered, supported by a nest from which emerge two eaglets' heads, all Or) (cited in ASFI) | |
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Aquini
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 382)". |
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Aquini (Naples)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 3545)". |
| Aquino or Acquino (Sicily)
Italian: Inquartato; nel 1° e 4° campo rosso con tre bande d'oro; nel 2° e 3° diviso d'argento e di rosso con un leone dell'uno e dell'altro (Quarterly; 1st and 4th gules with three bends Or; 2nd and 3rd per fess argent and gules, a lion counterchanged) (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) | |
| Aquino or D'Acquino or D'Aquino (Sicily)
Italian: inquartato nel 1° e 4° bandato d'oro e di rosso; nel 2° e 3° spaccato d'argento e di rosso al leone dell'uno nell'altro (Quarterly 1st and 4th bendy Or and gules; 2nd and 3rd per fess argent and gules, a lion counterchanged) (cited in MANG) | |
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Aquino (Tropea)
Latin: quatuor quadrantes tres barras in duobus et in aliis duobus duos Leones (cited in BLCL) Image and historical notes in "Tropea Magazine". |
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Aquino (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
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Aquino Castiglione (Tropea)
In the 1st and 4th quarters bendy Or and gules, in the 2nd and 3rd the same with a lion counterchanged (cited in BLCL) Motto: Bene scripsisti de me Thoma Image and historical notes in "Tropea Magazine". |
Ara
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Araca (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
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Araciel or Ruiz d'Araciel (Spain, Milan)
Italian: inquartato; nel 1° e nel 4° d'azzurro, all'arcobaleno di tre file d'oro, di rosso e di verde, sormontato da un crescente rivolto d'argento; nel 2° e nel 3° d'oro, all'aquila di nero coronata del campo; lo scudo bordato di rosso, caricato di otto croci trifogliate (o di Calatrava) d'oro (Quarterly; 1st and 4th azure, a rainbow of three bands Or, gules and vert, surmounted by a crescent turned argent; 2nd and 3rd Or, an eagle sable crowned of the field; the shield bordered gules, charged with eight trefoiled crosses (or crosses of Calatrava) Or)[1] |
| Arada (Sicily)
Gules with a bend Or accompanied in chief by an eagle Or, and in the dexter corner of the base by a lion Or (cited in NBSC) (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) | |
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Aragall (Sardinia)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBSD) |
| Aragall (Sardinia)
Italian: inquartato: nel 1º di Sicilia; nel 2º d'oro, all'aquila bicipite coronata di nero; nel 3º di Aragona; nel 4º d'azzurro, alla torre al naturale sormontata da tre stelle d'argento (Quarterly: in the 1st of Sicily; in the 2nd Or, a double-headed eagle crowned sable; in the 3rd of Aragon; in the 4th azure, a tower proper surmounted by three stars argent) (cited in NBSD) | |
| Aragno (Benevagienna)
Italian: D'azzurro, alla torre d'argento muovente dalla punta, con la fascia di rosso, bordata d'argento, attraversante, e due filetti in palo d'oro, attraversanti sul tutto (Azure, a tower argent issuing from the base, with a fess gules, bordered argent, overall, and two pales Or overall) (cited in SUBL) | |
| Aragon (Villeneuve)
Italian: D'argento, a tre bande di rosso, con il capo d'oro, cucito, carico di un'aquila, di nero (Argent, three bends gules, with a chief Or, cousu, charged with an eagle sable) (cited in SUBL) | |
| Aragona Spanish dynasty — Kings of Aragon, of Sicily, of Trinacria, Kings of Naples and of Sicily or of the Two Sicilies
Italian: d'oro a quattro pali di rosso (Or, four pales gules) (cited in RTGL) | |
| Aragona Kingdom of Naples
Italian: Inquartato: nel primo e nel quarto, d'oro, a tre pali di rosso: nel secondo e nel terzo, interzato in palo: nel 1º fasciato di otto pezzi o di rosso e oro; nel 2º d'azzurro, seminato di gigli d'oro; nel 3º d'argento, alla croce potenziata d'oro, accantonata da 4 crocette dello stesso (Quarterly: in the first and fourth, Or, three pales gules: in the second and third, tierced in pale: in the 1st barry of eight pieces gules and Or; in the 2nd azure, semé of fleurs-de-lis Or; in the 3rd argent, a cross potent Or, cantoned by four crosslets of the same) (image on "p. 86 in the original, p. 134 in the pdf" (PDF).) (cited in BEUA) | |
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Aragona (Naples)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 3546)". |
| Aragona (Sicily) Title: prince of Castelvetrano; duke of Terranova; marquis of Avila, Favara; baron of S. Angelo, Burgetto
Italian: d'oro, a quattro pali di rosso (Or, four pales gules) Crest: a griffin issuant Or, langued gules, grasping a banner argent, staffed Or, charged with a cross gules, flying to sinister (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) | |
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Aragona (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (quarterly) (cited in NBNA) |
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Aragona (Spain)
Italian: palato di rosso e d'argento (Paly gules and argent) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 326)". |
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Aragoni
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 380)". |
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Aragoni (Naples)
Italian: di rosso, a tre pali d'oro (Gules, three pales Or) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 2720)". |
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Araldi (Cremona) Title: Counts Palatine, marquises of Piadena
Italian: d'azzurro alla cometa d'oro, accompagnata da tre stelle dello stesso, due in capo e una in punta (Azure, a comet Or, accompanied by three stars of the same, two in chief and one in base) (cited in BLCR) Image in "Cremona Armorial". Archived from the original on 2017-03-02. |
| Araldo or Aralda (Casale)
Italian: Di rosso, al destrocherio armato d'argento (?), tenente con la mano di carnagione una spada, pure d'argento (?), posta in sbarra (Gules, a dexter arm embowed argent (?), holding in the flesh-coloured hand a sword, also argent (?), placed in bend sinister) (cited in SUBL) | |
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Araldo (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
| Arana or Arane (Sicily)
Italian: d'argento, a cinque cuori (infiammati?) di rosso situati in croce di S. Andrea (Argent, five hearts (inflamed?) gules placed in saltire) (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) | |
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Araneo (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
| Arango (Sicily)
Or with six azure birds placed 2, 2 and 2 (cited in NBSC) (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) | |
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Aranzi (Bologna)
Tree eradicated vert fructed of 3 pieces Or, probably oranges, on azure — eagle sable on Or in chief (cited in LEOM) |
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Arardi (Cesena)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in BLCW) Image in "Cesena Blazon". |
| Arata (Sicily)
Italian: diviso: nel 1° d'azzurro, a tre gigli d'argento, allineati in fascia; nel 2° d'azzurro a due bande accorciate d'oro ed un aratro dello stesso (Per fess: in the 1st azure, three fleurs-de-lis argent, aligned in fess; in the 2nd azure, two shortened bends Or and a plough of the same) (cited in MANG) Per fess in the 1st azure with three fleurs-de-lis argent aligned in fess, in the 2nd azure with two bends Or retracted in chief and a plough Or (cited in NBSC) (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) | |
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Arau (Sicily)
Italian: spaccato con la fascia in divisa centrata d'oro, caricata da tre stelle d'azzurro: nel 1° dello stesso alla torre d'argento, aperta, finestrata e murata di nero, fiancheggiata da due leoni contro-rampanti d'oro; nel 2° di rosso, a due lance d'argento, fustate di nero, passate in croce di S. Andrea ed infilzate in un anello dello stesso (Per fess with a narrow fess centred Or, charged with three stars azure: in the 1st of the same with a tower argent, open, windowed and masoned sable, flanked by two lions counter-rampant Or; in the 2nd gules, two lances argent, staffed sable, passed in saltire and pierced through a ring of the same) (cited in MANG) |
| Araudino or Araudini (Fossano)
Italian: Bandato d'oro e d'azzurro, con il capo del primo, carico di un'aquila, di nero (Bendy Or and azure, with a chief of the first charged with an eagle sable) (cited in SUBL) |
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| Arbasia (Saluzzo)
Italian: Troncato, al 1° d'azzurro, alla colomba d'argento, tenente nel becco un ramoscello d'olivo, d'oro, al 2° bandato d'oro e di rosso, di quattro pezzi, ciascuna banda carica di una costola umana, dell'uno nell'altro (Per fess, in the 1st azure, a dove argent, holding in its beak an olive branch Or; in the 2nd bendy Or and gules, of four pieces, each bend charged with a human rib, counterchanged) Motto: Iustus et fortis (cited in SUBL) | |
| Arbaudi (Savigliano) Title: co-lords of Levaldigi (?)
Italian: Troncato, al 1° di rosso, a due leoni d'oro, affrontati, al 2° d'azzurro, a due fasce d'oro, ondate, con la fascia di rosso, orlata d'argento, carica di quattro bisantini dello stesso, sulla partizione (Per fess, in the 1st gules, two lions Or, facing each other; in the 2nd azure, two fesses Or, wavy, with a fess gules, bordered argent, charged with four bezants of the same, on the partition) Motto: Recta fides optata vocat (cited in SUBL) | |
| Arbaudi or Arbaud or Arbaudo (Nizzardo)
Italian: D'azzurro, allo scaglione d'argento, con il capo d'oro, carico di una stella di rosso (Azure, a chevron argent, with a chief Or, charged with a star gules) Motto: Recta fides optata vocat (cited in SUBL) | |
| Arbea (Sicily) Title: baron of Sambuca
Italian: di rosso, a tre sbarre d'oro, al capo d'azzurro caricato da un giglio d'oro (Gules, three bends sinister Or, with a chief azure charged with a fleur-de-lis Or) (cited in MANG) Gules with three bends sinister Or, and the chief cousu azure with a fleur-de-lis Or (cited in NBSC) (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) | |
| Arbertinelli (Tuscany) (cited in KHIF) | |
| Arbolini (Veneto)
Italian: bandato d'argento e di rosso di otto pezzi (Bendy argent and gules of eight pieces) (cited in STBV) (image from the "Royal Armorial of Bavaria".) alias Bendy argent and gules of ten pieces (cited in STBV) (image from the "Royal Armorial of Bavaria".) | |
| 150px | Arbolini or Zeboli or Ieboli (Oderzo, Torcello, Venice)
Italian: bandato d'argento e di rosso di otto pezzi (Bendy argent and gules of eight pieces) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 5676)". |
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Arbolini-Cacepoli (Oderzo, Venice)
Italian: di rosso, a quattro bande d'argento (Gules, four bends argent) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 6951)". |
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Arbona (Agrate)
Italian: Troncato al castello di rosso sovrapposto a un braccio che tiene in pugno cinque germogli; al capo dell'impero (Per fess, a castle gules placed over an arm holding in its fist five sprouts; with a chief of the Empire) (cited in Matteo Turconi Sormani, "The Great Families of Milan"., Rome, Newton Compton Editori, 2015, ISBN 978-88-541-8714-6.) |
| Arborio line of Gattinara (Turin, Sicily) Titles: Dukes of Sartirana, Marquises of Breme, Gattinara Romagnano, counts of Biandrate, Gifflenga, Motta Alciata, Muzzano, Occhieppo Superiore, Sartirana, Valenza, Viancino, Viverone; barons of Ozzano, Sant'Agata; lords of Albano and Oldenico, Arborio and Recetto, Belvedere (Belveglio), Borgomanero, Brusasco, Camburzano, Cossano, Mondonio, Moransengo, Piazzo, Pino, Rivalta, San Giacomo, Terruggia, Tonengo
Used name Arborio di Gattinara Italian: d'azzurro del decusse ancorato, di argento, accantonato da quattro gigli d'oro; col capo dell'impero (Azure, a saltire anchored argent, cantoned by four fleurs-de-lis Or; with a chief of the Empire) (cited in SPRE – Vol. I p. 411, in MANG and in SUBL) Azure, a saltire anchored argent, cantoned by four fleurs-de-lis Or, with a chief of the same charged with an eagle sable, crowned imperially (cited in NBSC) alias Azure, a saltire anchored argent, cantoned by four fleurs-de-lis Or (cited in SUBL) Crest: Hercules issuant / a Hercules proper, holding a club Or and clothed in a lion's skin Motto: Aut vincendum aut moriendum Supporters: two wild men, armed with clubs (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) | |
| Arborio Biamino (Arborio) Title: counts of Caresanablot
Italian: D'azzurro, al decusse ancorato, d'argento, accantonato da quattro gigli d'oro, con il capo d'oro, carico di un'aquila di nero (Azure, a saltire anchored argent, cantoned by four fleurs-de-lis Or, with a chief Or charged with an eagle sable) (cited in SUBL) | |
| Arborio Gattinara (Turin, Sartirana (Lomellina)) Titles: Duke of Sartirana, Count of Sartirana, Count of Torreberetti, Marquis of Breme, Lord of Belvedere
Used name Arborio Gattinara di Sartirana Italian: d'azzurro del decusse ancorato di argento, accantonato da quattro gigli d'oro; col capo dell'impero (Azure, a saltire anchored argent, cantoned by four fleurs-de-lis Or; with a chief of the Empire) (cited in SPRE – Vol. I p. 412) Saltire anchored argent cantoned by 4 fleurs-de-lis Or on azure — chief of the Empire (cited in LEOM) Ducal ornaments | |
| Arborio Mella (Sassari, Argentina)
Italian: Inquartato: nel 1° e 4° d'azzurro al vaso d'oro ad una pianticella di verde, accompagnato da 3 api d'oro male ordinate, volanti verso la pianta; nel 2° e 3° d'azzurro alla croce di S. Andrea ancorata d'argento, accantonata da 4 gigli d'oro. (Quarterly: 1st and 4th azure, a vase Or with a small plant vert, accompanied by 3 bees Or ill-ordered, flying towards the plant; 2nd and 3rd azure, a saltire anchored argent, cantoned by 4 fleurs-de-lis Or.) Motto: E FORTI DULCEDO | |
| Arborio Squarra (Arborio)
Italian: D'azzurro, al decusse ancorato, d'argento, accantonato da quattro gigli d'oro, con il capo d'oro, carico di un'aquila di nero (Azure, a saltire anchored argent, cantoned by four fleurs-de-lis Or, with a chief Or charged with an eagle sable) Motto: Nul bien sans peine (cited in SUBL) | |
| Arbusto (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (fess gules) (cited in NBNA) | |
| Arbusto (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (fess gules charged with a star and two crescents) (cited in NBNA) |
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| Arcabascio (Sicily)
Italian: d'oro, al leone di nero, posto sopra una cassa d'azzurro ed impugnante con la zampa anteriore destra una croce di nero (Or, a lion sable, placed upon a chest azure and grasping with its forward right paw a cross sable) (cited in MANG) Or with a lion sable placed upon a chest azure and holding with its left paw a black cross (cited in NBSC) (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) | |
| Arcagnoli (Florence)
Italian: D'oro, al monte di sei cime d'azzurro, sormontato da tre losanghe dello stesso caricate ciascuna da un giglio d'oro e ordinate fra i quattro pendenti di un lambello passante di rosso (Or, a mountain of six peaks azure, surmounted by three lozenges of the same each charged with a fleur-de-lis Or and ordered between the four pendants of a label passing gules) (cited in ASFI) | |
| Arcagnoli (Florence)
Italian: Troncato d'oro e d'azzurro, alla croce di Tolosa attraversante di rosso (Per fess Or and azure, a cross of Toulouse overall gules) (cited in ASFI) | |
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Arcamone (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
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Arcamone (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
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Arcamone (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
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Arcamone (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
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Arcamone (Greece, Bari, Rutigliano, Stradiota)
Italian: troncato: nel 1º d'azzurro all'arco sostenuto da due colonne coronato d'oro e accompagnato da due melograne gambute e coronare dello stesso; nel 2º fasciato d'azzurro e d'oro (Per fess: in the 1st azure, an arch supported by two columns crowned Or and accompanied by two pomegranates stalked and crowned of the same; in the 2nd barry azure and Or) (cited in RTGL) |
| Arcangeli or Arcangioli (Viterbo, Bagnorea) Title: Noble
Italian: fasciato di rosso (d'oro?) e d'azzurro; le fasce d'oro cariche di sei gigli d'azzurro ordinati 3, 2, 1 (Barry gules (Or?) and azure; the fesses Or charged with six fleurs-de-lis azure ordered 3, 2, 1) | |
| Arcangeli (Viterbo)
Italian: fasciato di azzurro e d'oro; le fasce d'oro cariche di 6 gigli d'azzurro ordinati 3, 2, 1 (Barry azure and Or; the fesses Or charged with 6 fleurs-de-lis azure ordered 3, 2, 1) (cited in SPRE – Vol. IX p. 224) Barry azure and Or, the fesses Or charged with 6 fleurs-de-lis azure placed in an inverted pyramid (cited in LEOM) | |
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Arcangelo (Sicily)
Italian: d'azzurro, ad un arcangelo d'argento impugnante una spada del secondo (Azure, an archangel argent holding a sword of the second) (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) |
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Arcangelo (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
| Arcangioli (Arezzo)
Italian: inquartato: nel 1º e 4º d'oro alla banda di rosso accostata da due rose al naturale; nel 2º e 3º d'azzurro alla banda d'oro accostata da due stelle d'argento di 8 raggi (Quarterly: in the 1st and 4th Or, a bend gules flanked by two roses proper; in the 2nd and 3rd azure, a bend Or flanked by two stars argent of 8 rays) (cited in SPRE – Vol. I p. 413) Quarterly: in the 1st and 4th Or, a bend gules accompanied by two roses of the same, 1.1; in the 2nd and 3rd azure, a bend Or accompanied by two stars of eight points argent, 1.1 (cited in ASFI) Bend gules on Or accompanied by — 2 roses argent placed in bend sinister — bend Or on azure accompanied by — 2 stars (8 rays) argent placed in bend sinister on azure (cited in LEOM) | |
| Arcangioli (Florence)
Italian: D'azzurro, all'arca d'oro alata dello stesso e caricata di un crescente montante (o volto) d'argento (Azure, an ark Or winged of the same and charged with a crescent ascendant (or turned) argent) (cited in ASFI) | |
| Arcangioli (Siena)
Italian: D'azzurro, al sole d'oro posto nel cantone destro del capo, accompagnato nel cantone sinistro della punta da uno scudetto ovale troncato d'argento e di... (Azure, a sun Or placed in the dexter canton of the chief, accompanied in the sinister canton of the base by a small oval shield per fess argent and of...) (cited in ASFI) | |
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Arcani (Cesena)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in BLCW) Image in "Cesena Blazon". |
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Arcanisote (Cesena)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in BLCW) Image in "Cesena Blazon". |
| Arcatori or Arcour or Arcourt (Novello, Baratonia, Lanzo, Turin) Title: viscounts of Ala, Baratonia, Fiano, Varisella; lords of Altezzano, Azeglio, Borgaro, Monasterolo, S. Didero, Usseglio, Viù; co-lords of Cavallermaggiore, Lemie, Murazzano
Italian: Di rosso all'arco rivoltato d'oro, teso e incoccato d'argento (Gules, a bow reversed Or, drawn and nocked argent) (cited in SUBL) alias Quarterly, 1st and 4th azure, an eagle Or crowned of the same; 2nd and 3rd gules, a bow in bend sinister with the dart nocked, all argent (cited in SUBL) alias Quarterly, 1st and 4th gules, an eagle Or crowned of the same; 2nd and 3rd gules, a bow in bend sinister argent with the dart nocked Or (cited in SUBL) alias Quarterly, 1st and 4th gules, a bow in bend sinister argent with the dart nocked Or; 2nd and 3rd gules, an eagle Or crowned of the same; over all Or, a lion azure (cited in SUBL) Motto: Souvenir me tue | |
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Arcayne (Sardinia)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBSD) |
| Arcella (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (Italian: di rosso, alla croce scaccata d'azzurro e d'argento di tre file — Gules, a cross chequy azure and argent of three rows) (cited in NBNA) | |
| Arcella (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (Italian: d'azzurro, alla croce scaccata d'argento e di rosso di tre file — Azure, a cross chequy argent and gules of three rows) (cited in NBNA) | |
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Arcella (Naples, Piacenza)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 3086)". |
| Arcelli and Arcelli-Fontana (Piacenza) Title: Count of Monteventano and Monte Bissago, co-lords of Nucetto
Italian: inquartato: nel 1º e 4º d'azzurro al leone di oro, tenente una spada d'argento; nel 2º e 3º di rosso alla croce scaccata di due file d'argento e d'azzurro (Quarterly: in the 1st and 4th azure, a lion Or, holding a sword argent; in the 2nd and 3rd gules, a cross chequy of two rows argent and azure) (cited in SPRE – Vol. I p. 414 and Vol. IX p. 224 and in SUBL) Lion rampant Or on azure, sword placed in pale in dexter — Latin cross chequy argent and azure on gules (cited in LEOM) Mantling: Or, argent, gules and azure. Comital ornaments Motto: Non deest generoso in pectore virtus alias Gules, a cross chequy of two rows azure and argent (cited in SUBL) alias Gules, a cross chequy of two rows argent and azure (cited in SUBL) | |
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Arcelli (Cesena)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in BLCW) Image in "Cesena Blazon". |
| Arceri (Sicily) Title: baron of Caruso
Italian: di rosso, al leone d'oro, saliente, impugnante con le zampe anteriori un arco d'argento, armato di una freccia dello stesso in atto d'incoccarla e sostenuto da una banda del secondo. Corona di Barone (Gules, a lion Or, salient, grasping with its forward paws a bow argent, armed with an arrow of the same in the act of nocking it and supported by a bend of the second. Baron's coronet) (cited in MANG) Gules, a bend Or, and a lion salient of the same holding with its forward paws an arrow in the act of nocking it. Baron's coronet (cited in NBSC) (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) | |
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Arces (Sicily)
Italian: d'azzurro, al ponte ad un sol arco d'oro, sostenente un castello, merlato di quattro pezzi d'oro, aperto del campo, trattenuto da due leoni contro-rampanti del secondo (Azure, a bridge of a single arch Or, supporting a castle, embattled of four pieces Or, open of the field, restrained by two lions counter-rampant of the second) (cited in MANG) Azure with a bridge surmounted by a castle Or, and supported by two lions also Or (cited in NBSC) (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) |
| Archi (Florence)
Italian: D'azzurro, a tre archi da arciere di nero posti in fascia e ordinati l'uno sull'altro (Azure, three archer's bows sable placed in fess and ordered one above the other) (cited in ASFI) | |
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Archidiaconi or Artezaghi (Cremona)
Italian: d'oro a due scettri gigliati d'argento passati in croce di S. Andrea; col capo cucito d'oro caricato di un'aquila di nero (Or, two sceptres flowered with fleurs-de-lis argent passed in saltire; with a chief cousu Or charged with an eagle sable) (cited in BLCR) Image in "Cremona Armorial". Archived from the original on 2017-03-02. |
| Archieri (Monticelli di Ongina (Piacenza)) Title: Noble
Italian: troncato: nel 1º d'oro all'aquila di nero coronata del campo; nel 2º di rosso all'arco d'oro posto in sbarra (Per fess: in the 1st Or, an eagle sable crowned of the field; in the 2nd gules, a bow Or placed in bend sinister) (cited in SPRE – Vol. I p. 415 and Vol. IX p. 225) Eagle sable crowned Or on Or — bow nocked with arrow Or placed in bend on gules (cited in LEOM) | |
| Archieri (Aosta) Title: co-lords of Gignod
Italian: Troncato d'oro e d'azzurro, al centauro sagittario, dell'uno nell'altro (Per fess Or and azure, a centaur sagittarius counterchanged) (cited in SUBL) | |
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Archimio (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
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Archinti (Milan)
Italian: d'argento, a tre fasce ondate di verde (Argent, three fesses wavy vert) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 4627)". |
| Archinto (Pisa, Milan, Tainate, Parona, Erba, Villalbese, Albizzate) Title: Patrician of Pisa, Patrician of Milan, Count of Tainate, Marquis of Parona, Lord of Erba, Lord of Villalbese, Co-Lord of Albizzate
Italian: di verde, a tre fasce d'argento ondate (Vert, three fesses argent wavy) Crest: the figure of a king, crowned in the antique style, clothed in gules, with a mantle lined with ermine, with a sceptre in the right hand Ornaments: the mantle. The shield accollé to the imperial double-headed eagle Motto: Archintea laus (cited in GUCA – p. 381 and in DALE) Vert, three fesses wavy argent (cited in ASFI) | |
| Archinto or Archinti (Milan)
Italian: di verde, a tre fasce d'argento, controinnestate (Vert, three fesses argent, counter-embattled) (Image in the "Trippini Arms Collection".) (cited in SPRE – Vol. I p. 416 and Vol. IX p. 225) 3 fesses argent counter-embattled on vert (cited in LEOM) Crest: the figure of a princess, crowned in the antique style, clothed in gules, with a mantle lined with ermine, placed in majesty, and holding with both hands a scroll on which is written the: Motto: Archintea laus Ornaments: the mantle lined with ermine. The shield accollé to the imperial double-headed eagle | |
| Arcicoca (Naples)
Cockerel (cited in DALE) | |
| Arcimboldi (Milan)
Italian: d'oro, alla banda d'azzurro caricata di tre stelle a sei punte del campo (Or, a bend azure charged with three six-pointed stars of the field) (Image in the "Trippini Arms Collection".) | |
| Arcimboldi (Milan)
Italian: d'oro, alla banda di rosso caricata di tre stelle a sei punte del campo (Or, a bend gules charged with three six-pointed stars of the field) (Image in the "La Storia di Carta Arms Collection".) | |
| Arcieri (Catanzaro)
Italian: D'azzurro a 4 fasce d'oro. Al filetto d'argento in banda attraversante (Azure, 4 fesses Or. A narrow bend argent overall) | |
| Arcieri (Catanzaro)
Italian: D'azzurro a quattro fasce d'oro (Azure, four fesses Or) | |
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Arcimboldi
Italian: d'azzurro, alla banda di rosso bordata d'oro (Azure, a bend gules bordered Or) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 2870)". |
| Arcipreti della Penna Crispolti (Perugia)
Italian: partito: nel 1º d'argento ad una penna di struzzo al naturale; nel 2º d'oro a tre fasce di rosso accompagnate in capo da una piccola tenda dello stesso (Party: in the 1st argent, an ostrich feather proper; in the 2nd Or, three fesses gules accompanied in chief by a small tent of the same) (cited in SPRE – Vol. IX p. 229) Ostrich feather proper on argent — 3 fesses accompanied in chief by a small tent gules on Or (cited in LEOM) | |
| Arcipreti della Penna Crispolti (Perugia)
Italian: di rosso alla penna di struzzo d'argento (Gules, an ostrich feather argent) (cited in SPRE – Vol. IX p. 229) Ostrich feather in pale argent on gules (cited in LEOM) | |
| Arcipreti della Penna Crispolti (Perugia)
Italian: inquartato d'argento e d'azzurro (Quarterly argent and azure) (cited in SPRE – Vol. IX p. 229) Quarterly argent and azure (cited in LEOM) | |
| Arciti (Orvieto)
Italian: d'azzurro al leone al naturale rampante (Azure, a lion proper rampant) (cited in SPRE – Vol. IX p. 229) Lion rampant proper on azure (cited in LEOM) Crest: an ostrich holding in its beak an iron, with the: Motto: Durissima conficit | |
| Arciti (Orvieto)
Italian: d'azzurro al busto umano al naturale uscente dalla punta dello scudo e mirante una cometa d'argento, ondeggiante in banda, posta nell'angolo destro del capo (Azure, a human bust proper issuing from the base of the shield and gazing at a comet argent, undulating in bend, placed in the dexter corner of the chief) (cited in SPRE – Vol. IX p. 229) Bearded man's bust proper issuing from the base on azure gazing at — comet argent in bend in the upper sinister on azure (cited in LEOM) | |
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Arco (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
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Arconate or Capitanei
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in DALE) |
| Arconati (Milan) Title: counts of Tronzano
Italian: a cinque punti d'oro, equipollenti a quattro d'azzurro (Five points Or, equipolled to four azure) (cited in MONT – p. 126) alias Quarterly, 1st and 4th five points Or equipolled to four azure; 2nd of Visconti (cited in SUBL) | |
| Arcuccio or Arcuccia (Molise, Abruzzo)
Italian: D'oro alla fascia di rosso, accompagnata da tre archi di nero posti in palo, 2 in capo ed 1 in punta (Or, a fess gules, accompanied by three bows sable placed in pale, 2 in chief and 1 in base) (cited in DALE) | |
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Arcuccio (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
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Arcuccio (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
| Arcuri (Catanzaro)
Italian: D'azzurro alla fascia centrata d'oro accompagnata in capo da un sole radioso dello stesso e in punta da una cometa d'argento in banda (Azure, a narrow fess Or accompanied in chief by a radiant sun of the same and in base by a comet argent in bend) |
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Ardenghi (Modena)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 1539)". |
| Ardimanni (Figline, Florence)
Italian: D'argento, alla banda d'azzurro (Argent, a bend azure) German: In Silber 1 blauer Schrägbalken (Argent, a bend azure) (cited in KHIF) alias Or, an eagle with wings lowered sable, charged on the breast with a small shield argent surcharged with a bend azure (cited in ASFI) | |
| Ardimanni (Tuscany) (cited in KHIF) | |
| Ardimodo (Veneto)
Italian: troncato: nel 1º partito d'argento e di rosso a due crocette patenti e fitte dall'uno nell'altro; nel secondo troncato d'azzurro e di rosso; alla fascia d'argento attraversante sul tutto (Per fess: in the 1st party argent and gules with two small crosses patty fitchy counterchanged; in the second per fess azure and gules; with a fess argent overall) (cited in STBV) (image from the "Royal Armorial of Bavaria".) alias Per fess: in the 1st party gules and argent with a small cross patty fitchy of the first in the second; in the second per fess azure and gules; with a fess argent overall (cited in STBV) (image from the "Royal Armorial of Bavaria".) | |
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Ardingelli (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (Italian: d'oro, alla croce losangata d'argento e di verde — Or, a cross lozengy argent and vert) (cited in NBNA) |
| Ardinghelli (Florence) (cited in ASFI) German: In Gold 1 silber-grün gerautetes Kreuz (Or, a cross lozengy argent and vert) (cited in KHIF) | |
| Ardinghelli (Florence)
Italian: D'argento, alla fascia diminuita di rosso, accompagnata in capo da un lambello di cinque pendenti d'azzurro (Argent, a narrow fess gules, accompanied in chief by a label of five pendants azure) (cited in ASFI) | |
| Ardinghelli (Abruzzo)
Italian: D'argento alla croce d'azzurro losangata d'oro (Argent, a cross azure lozengy Or) (cited in DALE) | |
| Ardinghelli (Tuscany) German: In Gold 1 blau-silber schräggeschachtes Kreuz (Or, a cross chequy in bend azure and argent) (cited in KHIF) | |
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Ardinghellus (Florence)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 7432)". |
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Ardinghen (Germany)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 3087)". |
| Ardinghi (Florence)
Italian: Troncato: nel 1º d'oro pieno; nel 2º scaccato d'argento e di rosso (Per fess: in the 1st plain Or; in the 2nd chequy argent and gules) (cited in ASFI) alias Per fess: in the 1st plain Or; in the 2nd chequy argent and azure (cited in ASFI) alias Per fess: in the 1st plain Or; in the 2nd chequy argent and gules; with a chief of Anjou (cited in ASFI) alias Per fess: in the 1st plain Or; in the 2nd chequy argent and azure; with a chief of Anjou (cited in ASFI) | |
| Ardinghi (Tuscany) (cited in KHIF) | |
| Ardinghi (Tuscany) (cited in KHIF) | |
| Ardinghi (Tuscany) (cited in KHIF) | |
| Ardinghieri (Tuscany) (cited in KHIF) | |
| Ardini (Veneto)
Italian: d'argento, alla banda accostata da sei stelle a otto raggi ordinate in due bande da 3, il tutto di rosso (Argent, a bend flanked by six eight-rayed stars ordered in two bands of 3, all gules) (cited in STBV) (image from the "Royal Armorial of Bavaria".) | |
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Ardiso (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
| Ardisson (Veneto)
Italian: di rosso, alla banda d'oro, caricata da tre stelle a otto raggi del campo, e accostata da sei palle d'argento ordinate in due bande da 3 (Gules, a bend Or, charged with three eight-rayed stars of the field, and flanked by six balls argent ordered in two bands of 3) (cited in STBV) (image from the "Royal Armorial of Bavaria".) | |
| Ardissone (Carmagnola)
Italian: D'argento, al leone al naturale, coronato d'oro, tenente con la branca anteriore sinistra una sella di cuoio, bordata di rosso e di verde (Argent, a lion proper, crowned Or, holding with its forward left paw a leather saddle, bordered gules and vert) (cited in SUBL) | |
| Arditi (Florence)
Italian: D'azzurro, al braccio destro di carnagione vestito di rosso, uscente dal fianco sinistro dello scudo e impugnante in palo una clava d'oro, il tutto sormontato da un giglio dello stesso (Azure, a right arm proper clothed in gules, issuing from the sinister flank of the shield and grasping in pale a club Or, all surmounted by a fleur-de-lis of the same) (cited in ASFI) | |
| Arditi (Otranto)
Italian: d'azzurro, alla fenice d'oro nella sua immortalità (Azure, a phoenix Or in its immortality) | |
| Arditi (Presicce, Naples) Title: Marquis of Castelvetere
Italian: di azzurro alla fenice sulla sua immortalità; fissante un sole a destra, il tutto di oro (Azure, a phoenix upon its immortality; gazing at a sun on the dexter, all Or) (cited in SPRE – Vol. I p. 418 and in PRTS) Phoenix on its immortality gazing at a sun in the upper sinister, all Or on azure (cited in LEOM) | |
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Arditi (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
| Arditi (Tuscany) (cited in KHIF) | |
| Arditi (Tuscany) (cited in KHIF) | |
| Arditi (Tuscany) (cited in KHIF) | |
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Ardizi
Italian: di azzurro al salice al naturale nodrito in un terreno di verde posto a sinistra e con i rami spiegati ad arco di cerchio; a destra un drago alato, seduto, rivoltato tenente con la zampa destra un ramo dello stesso albero, molto piegato; fra questo ramo e il tronco dell'albero la cifra Ag in lettere maiuscole di rosso (Azure, a willow proper nourished on a ground vert placed on the sinister and with branches spread in the arc of a circle; on the dexter a winged dragon, seated, reversed, holding with its right paw a branch of the same tree, much bent; between this branch and the trunk of the tree the cipher Ag in capital letters gules) (cited in SPRE – Vol. III p. 463) |
| Ardizo (Veneto)
Italian: di rosso, alla banda d'oro accostata da sei palle d'argento ordinate in due bande da 3 (Gules, a bend Or flanked by six balls argent ordered in two bands of 3) (cited in STBV) (image from the "Royal Armorial of Bavaria".) | |
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Ardizon (Bologna, Venice)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 7173)". |
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Ardizoni (Modena, Ferrara)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 598)". |
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Ardizoni (Modena)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 1544)". |
| Ardizzo (Frassinetto Po, Casale) Title: counts of Frassineto Po; lords of Montemagno
Italian: D'argento, alla banda scaccata d'azzurro e d'oro (Argent, a bend chequy azure and Or) (cited in SUBL) alias Azure, a phoenix Or, upon its immortality gules, gazing at a sun Or in the dexter canton of the field, with a chief Or charged with an eagle sable (cited in SUBL) | |
| Ardizzon (Chioggia)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in "Araldica gentilizia". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.) | |
| Ardizzone (Catania, Syracuse) Title: nobles of Sicily
Italian: d'azzurro, al castello ad una torre d'oro, aperto, finestrato e murato di nero, fiammeggiante in cima di rosso, fiancheggiato da due leoni del secondo, coronati dello stesso, controrampanti alla base (Azure, a castle with one tower Or, open, windowed and masoned sable, flaming at the top gules, flanked by two lions of the second, crowned of the same, counter-rampant at the base) (cited in SPRE – Vol. I p. 418, in MANG, in PRTS and in NBSC) Castle (3 stories) Or flaming gules at the top on azure flanked by — 2 lions counter-rampant crowned Or on azure (cited in LEOM) (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) | |
| Ardizzone (Syracuse)
Italian: d'azzurro, al castello ad una torre d'oro, aperto, finestrato e murato di nero, fiammeggiante in cima di rosso (Azure, a castle with one tower Or, open, windowed and masoned sable, flaming at the top gules) (cited in SPRE – Vol. I p. 418, in MANG and in NBSC) (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) | |
| Ardizzone (Casale) Title: marquises of Bozzole (1688), Pomaro (1685); counts of Castagnetto, Borgo S. Martino; co-lords of Cellamonte, Marcorengo, S. Sebastiano
Italian: D'azzurro alla fiamma al naturale, con il capo di rosso cucito, carico di un'aquila pure al naturale (Azure, a flame proper, with a chief gules cousu, charged with an eagle also proper) (cited in SUBL) alias Per fess, in the 1st Or, an eagle sable; in the 2nd argent (?), a small plant of three flowers (?) of [...], nourished on a small hillock (?, of [...], with a fess azure, charged with three stars of [...], passing upon the partition (cited in SUBL) alias Argent, a mountain of three peaks (proper?), supporting three branches vert flowered with three roses gules, with a chief Or, charged with an eagle sable, supported by a fess azure, charged with three stars Or, ordered in fess (cited in SUBL) | |
| Ardizzone (Bra)
Italian: D'oro, al leone di rosso, con il capo d'azzurro, carico di tre stelle del campo, ordinate in fascia (Or, a lion gules, with a chief azure, charged with three stars of the field, ordered in fess) Motto: Fortis et audax (cited in SUBL) | |
| Ardizzoni (Nizzardo)
Italian: D'argento, alla fascia d'azzurro, carica di tre stelle d'oro, accompagnata in capo da un'aquila bicipite, di nero, in punta da tre monticelli, ciascuno sormontato da una pianta di rosa, al naturale (Argent, a fess azure, charged with three stars Or, accompanied in chief by a double-headed eagle sable, in base by three small hillocks, each surmounted by a rose plant, proper) (cited in SUBL) | |
| Ardizzoni (Bologna)
6 flames issuing from the base gules each surmounted by an extinguisher Or on azure — chief of Anjou (cited in LEOM) | |
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Ardizzoni
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 3660)". |
| Ardoin (Paris) Title: Count
Italian: inquartato: nel 1º e 4º d'azzurro alla fascia d'oro accompagnata in capo da tre stelle d'argento ordinate in fascia, ed in punta da un cuore dello stesso, infiammato di rosso; nel 2º e 3º d'azzurro al cane levriere d'argento, ritto (Quarterly: in the 1st and 4th azure, a fess Or accompanied in chief by three stars argent ordered in fess, and in base by a heart of the same, inflamed gules; in the 2nd and 3rd azure, a greyhound argent, erect) (cited in SPRE – Vol. IX p. 231) Fess Or on azure — 3 stars (5 rays) argent placed in fess — heart argent inflamed gules on azure — greyhound rampant argent on azure (cited in LEOM) | |
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Ardoino or Arduino or Aldoino (Sicily) Title: baron of Venetico, Longarino, Maggazzà, Oliveri; marquis of Roccalumera, Soreto; prince of Alcontres
Italian: troncato: nel 1° d'argento, all'aquila spiegata di nero, membrata, imbeccata e coronata d'oro; nel 2° d'azzurro al leone d'oro, coronato dello stesso, guardante la cometa di otto raggi d'argento, posta al primo cantone, accompagnato nella punta da un crescente montante del medesimo. Lo scudo accollato all'aquila spiegata di nero, membrata, imbeccata e coronata d'oro (Per fess: in the 1st argent, an eagle displayed sable, membered, beaked and crowned Or; in the 2nd azure, a lion Or, crowned of the same, gazing at the eight-rayed comet argent, placed in the first canton, accompanied in the base by a crescent ascendant of the same. The shield accollé to an eagle displayed sable, membered, beaked and crowned Or) (cited in MANG) Per fess, in the 1st argent, with a black eagle crowned; in the 2nd azure with a lion Or crowned, accompanied by a half moon argent placed in the dexter flank of the shield, and by a star Or with six rays in the sinister flank. Prince's coronet (cited in NBSC) (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) |
| Ardovinus (Tuscany) (cited in KHIF) | |
| Arduini (Pesaro)
Italian: d'azzurro, allo scaglione d'argento accompagnato da 3 crescenti rivoltati del medesimo (Azure, a chevron argent accompanied by 3 crescents reversed of the same) | |
| Arduini (Siena)
Italian: Di rosso, alla banda d'oro, caricata di tre crescenti montanti d'azzurro (Gules, a bend Or, charged with three crescents ascendant azure) (cited in ASFI) alias Gules, a bend Or, charged with three crescents azure, placed in the sense of the charge (cited in ASFI) | |
| Arduini or Ardoini (Cuneo, Asti) Title: co-lords of Caraglio
Italian: D'azzurro al leone coronato, addestrato in capo da una stella, con una mezzaluna montante sotto la zampa sinistra anteriore, il tutto d'oro, con il capo d'argento carico di un'aquila coronata, di nero (Azure, a lion crowned, accompanied in chief on the dexter by a star, with a crescent ascendant under the forward left paw, all Or, with a chief argent charged with an eagle crowned, sable) alias Azure, an eagle Or, crowned of the same (cited in ARCN) | |
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Arduini (Cesena)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in BLCW) Image in "Cesena Blazon". |
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Arduini (Venice)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 7184)". |
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Arduini (Venice)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in UNFE) Image in the "Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (id. 5677)". |
| Arduino (Poirino)
Italian: D'azzurro, al gallo, accompagnato da tre stelle, due in punta, una in capo, il tutto d'oro (Azure, a cockerel, accompanied by three stars, two in base, one in chief, all Or) (cited in SUBL) | |
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Arduino (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in NBNA) |
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edit| Arms | House and blazon |
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| Arena (Messina)
Italian: d'azzurro, alla fenice d'oro sulla sua immortalità di rosso, fissante un sole del secondo a destra (Azure, a phoenix Or upon its immortality gules, gazing at a sun of the second on the dexter) | |
| Arena (Cosenza)
Italian: D'azzurro alla fenice d'oro fissante un sole radioso dello stesso posto nel cantone destro del capo (Azure, a phoenix Or gazing at a radiant sun of the same placed in the dexter canton of the chief) | |
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Arena (Benevagienna) Title: co-lords of Cervere
A swan above the sands in an aerial field with a golden scale in its talons (cited in SUBL) |
| Arena and Arena di Palermo (Sicily) Title: marquis
Italian: d'azzurro, al leone d'oro, posto sopra un monte d'argento movente dalla punta (Azure, a lion Or, placed upon a mountain argent issuing from the base) (cited in MANG) Azure with a mountain argent, surmounted by a lion Or. Marquis's coronet (cited in NBSC) (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) | |
| Arena (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (Italian: di rosso, a due gemelle in fascia d'argento — Gules, two gemel fesses argent) (cited in NBNA) | |
| Arena (Neapolitan)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (Italian: di rosso, a quattro fasce d'argento — Gules, four fesses argent) (cited in NBNA) | |
| Arena di Messina (Messina, Caltagirone, Lentini) Title: baron of Montechiaro, Roccadoro
Gules with two bends argent. Baron's coronet (cited in NBSC) (Historical note in "Noble families of Sicily". | |
| Arena Primo or Arenaprimo (Messina) Title: baron of Montechiaro, Roccadoro, del Grano
Italian: d'oro, a quattro fasce più oscure del medesimo e alla banda d'azzurro, attraversante (Or, four fesses darker of the same and a bend azure, overall) (cited in SPRE – Vol. I p. 419, in MANG and in NBSC) Bend azure upon 4 fesses burnished Or on Or (cited in LEOM) Crest: three plumes Or and azure External ornaments: Baron's coronet (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) | |
| Arenos or Arenosa (Sicily)
Italian: d'argento, al lupo rampante di rosso, guardante il sole dello stesso, posto al primo cantone (Argent, a wolf rampant gules, gazing at the sun of the same, placed in the first canton) (cited in MANG) | |
| Areosti (Bologna)
Paly of (?) and (?) (cited in DOLF – p. 52) | |
| Arese (Milan)
Italian: troncato: nel 1º d'oro, all'aquila di nero coronata del campo sostenuta dalla partizione; nel 2º d'argento, al volo abbassato di nero (Per fess: in the 1st Or, an eagle sable crowned of the field supported by the partition; in the 2nd argent, wings lowered sable) (Image in the "Trippini Arms Collection".) | |
| Arese Lucini (Milan) Titles: Count of Barlassina, Co-Lord of the Pieve di Seveso, Milanese Patrician, style of Don and Donna
Italian: inquartato: al 1º e 4º: troncato: a) di rosso all'aquila coronata di nero; b) d'argento al volo di nero abbassato; al 2º e 3º troncato: a) di oro, all'aquila coronata di nero; b) di rosso a tre lucci d'argento, uno sull'altro (Quarterly: in the 1st and 4th: per fess: a) gules, an eagle crowned sable; b) argent, wings lowered sable; in the 2nd and 3rd per fess: a) Or, an eagle crowned sable; b) gules, three pikes argent, one above the other) (cited in SPRE – Vol. I p. 419 and Vol. IX p. 231) Eagle crowned sable on gules — wings lowered (2 wings) sable on argent — eagle crowned sable on Or — 3 pike fish argent placed one above the other on gules (cited in LEOM) Crest: 1st the armed arm, holding the sword, with the motto: Per lealtà tenere (Arese); 2nd the eagle sable, crowned Or, issuant (Lucini) Ornaments: the mantle | |
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Areso (Sardinia)
(The blazon has not yet been recorded) (cited in DALE) |
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Aretusi (Modena)
Ram (cited in DALE) |
| Arezzo (Palermo, Modica, Scicli, Ragusa, Syracuse) Title: baron of Donnafugata; lord of S. Biagio, Cardinale, S. Filippo, Mastro, Caddimeli, delle Serre; baron of Trifiletti, Pescina; count of Celano, marquis of Celano; duke of San Filippo li Colonni
Italian: troncato d'oro e d'azzurro, a quattro ricci dell'uno nell'altro: due in capo e due in punta (Per fess Or and azure, four hedgehogs counterchanged: two in chief and two in base) (cited in SPRE – Vol. I p. 420) Per fess Or and azure, four hedgehogs counterchanged, 2 in chief and 2 in base. Marquis's coronet. Motto: Bene Merentibus (cited in MANG) Per fess in the 1st Or with two hedgehogs azure; in the 2nd azure with two hedgehogs Or. Marquis's coronet (cited in NBSC) 4 hedgehogs passant of which 2 azure on Or and 2 Or on azure (cited in LEOM) Motto: Bene merentibus (Historical note in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia".) Further historical information in "Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia". | |
| Arezzo (Palermo, Ragusa, Syracuse) Titles: Barons of Targia, Lords of Spalle, Lords of Fiumefreddo, of Benali
Italian: inquartato d'oro e d'azzurro ad un riccio (porcospino) in ciascun punto dell'uno nell'altro (Quarterly Or and azure with a hedgehog (porcupine) in each quarter counterchanged) (cited in SPRE – Vol. IX p. 231) Quarterly Or and azure — hedgehog azure on Or — hedgehog Or on azure (cited in LEOM) Motto: Bene merentibus |















