Sicilian nobility information

The Sicilian nobility was a privileged hereditary class in the Kingdom of Sicily, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the Kingdom of Italy, whose origins...

that have been used by the Sicilian nobility. Over the centuries many families emerged as landed aristocracy or nobility similar to the English gentry...

Look up Alphons or Alfonso in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alphons (Latinized Alphonsus, Adelphonsus, or Adefonsus) is a male given name recorded from...

The Prince of Lampedusa was a minor title in the Sicilian nobility. The first prince of Lampedusa and Linosa was Don Giulio Fabrizio Tomasi, who received...

Sicilian Baroque is the distinctive form of Baroque architecture which evolved on the island of Sicily, off the southern coast of Italy, in the 17th and...

The Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra (Italian: [ˈkɔːza ˈnɔstra, ˈkɔːsa -], Sicilian: [ˈkɔːsa ˈnɔʂː(ɽ)a]; "our thing"), also referred to as simply Mafia, is...

Fisichella is an Italian noble family, forming part of the Sicilian nobility. Members of the family include multiple judges and prelates, among them a...

Francesco I Ventimiglia (1285-2 January 1338) was an Italian nobleman and politician. He inherited the title of Count of Geraci. The Ventimiglia of Sicily...

Francesco Branciforte Barresi (15 March 1575 – 23 February 1622) was an aristocrat, Marquis of Militello and 4th prince of Butera, as well as a notable...

Altavilla Salina (Barone della salina di Altavilla) is a title of Sicilian nobility held by the Adragna family. The family is of Norman ancestry, holding...

Ambrogio Santapau was a 16th-century Sicilian nobleman. Originally, marquis of Licodia, a title he inherited from his father Porzio, in 1563 King Philip...

family, barons of Longi, it represents one of the major dynasties of the Sicilian aristocracy. Over the centuries, this family was at the top of political...

as a "merciless" criticism of that class; many among the surviving Sicilian nobility certainly saw it as such, and were scandalized that one of their own...

Sicilian Mafia's first eminent victim in 1893. Of aristocratic origins – Notarbartolo being one of the most prominent families of Sicilian nobility and...

Notarbartolo is one of the main aristocratic families of the Sicilian nobility. Originated in the Middle Ages, it gave to the island numerous personalities...

related to the so named Italian noble family, forming part of the Sicilian nobility, and his ecclesiastical coat of arms is inspired by the family arms...

family of Liguria. Descendants of the family held positions and titles of nobility in Sicily in Mediaeval times and later. Giovanni I Ventimiglia (1383–1475)...

of Sicily. His mother was Sica Musca. Andrew was raised on the family's Sicilian estates. He is recorded for the first time in June 1216 in Palermo, when...

Kingdom of Sicily (Latin: Regnum Siciliae; Italian: Regno di Sicilia; Sicilian: Regnu di Sicilia) was a state that existed in Sicily and the south of...

The Sicilian Wars, or Greco-Punic Wars, were a series of conflicts fought between ancient Carthage and the Greek city-states led by Syracuse over control...

with festivities put on by the Ghibellines. When Conradin's army entered Sicilian territory a few days later, Conrad was leading a contingent of Tuscan militia...

The War of the Sicilian Vespers, also shortened to the War of the Vespers, was a conflict waged by several medieval European kingdoms over control of Sicily...

Alba during the Eighty Years' War. On his return to Sicily, he wrote the Sicilian Historia, published in Venice in 1604, imbued "with a municipal pride that...

Andrea Chiaramonte (???? – 1 June 1392) was a representative of the Sicilian nobility in the 14th century. Andrea Chiaramonte was given the County of Modica...