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The coat of arms of the Visconti of Milan showing the biscione wearing a crown. The biscione [a] (English: "big grass snake"), less commonly known also as the vipera, [b] is in heraldry a charge consisting of a divine serpent in the act of giving birth to a child.
In 1134, Guido Visconti, son of Ottone, received from the abbot of Saint Gall the investiture of the court of Massino, [12] a strategic location on the hills above Lake Maggiore, near Arona. Here, another family member was present in the second half of the 12th century as the castellan (custos) of the local archiepiscopal fortress. [13]
—Tommaso da Caponago, 1448, Casa dei Panigarola, Milano In later centuries the coat of arms of Milan was sometimes embellished with the effigy of St. Ambrose. Beginning in the 16th century other ornaments such as cartouches, crowns and fronds began to appear. The gonfalon of Milan The first gonfalon of the city of Milan was a tapestry made around 1565 by embroiderers Scipione Delfinone and ...
After the first houses the castle appears in its imposing dimensions near the church of Santa Maria. Three towers remain of the castle: two of them on both sides of the southern gate, perhaps the original entrance, surmounted by the usual Biscione. At the center of the castle stands the main tower.
The Duchy of Milan (Italian: Ducato di Milano; Lombard: Ducaa de Milan) was a state in Northern Italy, created in 1395 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, then the lord of Milan, and a member of the important Visconti family, which had been ruling the city since 1277.
She was wrecked during a storm on 22 September 1588 of the coast of Cairbre Drom Cliabh (now county Sligo) on a sandbank off Streedagh strand.Her wreck was discovered in 1985 by an English salvage team. [1]
C.C. Filson, c.1917. Clinton C. Filson (born 1850), a former Nebraska homesteader and railroad conductor for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, arrived in the Northwest in the early 1890s, initially settling in Kirkland, Washington where he invested in property near Peter Kirk's proposed iron works and opened a hardware store in a brick building he co-owned with Seattle ...
An Area of Search (AOS) is a geographical area used in the selection of these sites. [1] In England these are largely based on the 1974–1996 administrative counties (with larger counties divided into two or more areas).
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