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The Sicilian nobility was a privileged hereditary class in the ... the Frankish custom of inheritance, which served to maintain family fiefdoms in their original form ...
The first Sicilian monarch was Roger I, Count of Sicily. The last monarch was King Ferdinand III of Sicily; during his reign, the Kingdom of Naples merged with the Kingdom of Sicily. The subsequent monarchs were Kings of the Two Sicilies. See also: List of monarchs of Sicily; List of monarchs of Naples. Kings of Naples family tree
The origins of the Sicilian monarchy lie in the Norman conquest of southern Italy which occurred between the 11th and 12th century. Sicily, which was ruled as an Islamic emirate for at least two centuries, was invaded in 1071 by Norman House of Hauteville, who conquered Palermo and established a feudal county named the County of Sicily. The ...
The proven founder of the family was Blasco Lanza (1466-1535), a lawyer from Catania belonging to a cadet branch of the noble Lancia family of the Barons of Longi. He became a feudal lord with the acquisition of the land of Trabia, in the Val di Mazara (1498), and of the barony of Castania, in the Val Demone (1507), both possessions received in dowry jure uxoris.
Anjou-Sicily: 4 September 1282: 7 January 1285: the southern half of the Italian Peninsula was part of the Kingdom of Sicily before the Sicilian Vespers forced Charles out of the island. Charles II of Naples (Charles the Lame) Anjou-Sicily: 7 January 1285: 5 May 1309: son of Charles I of Naples. Robert of Naples (Robert the Wise) Anjou-Naples ...
“The Sicilian Inheritance” comes out next month and it is the best thing I have ever written. My dad would love it. My dad would love it. The Sicilian Inheritance book cover by Jo Piazza.
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The Florio family originally came from Bagnara, a town in the province of Calabria.Paolo Florio (1772-1807) saw no future in his hometown after an earthquake in 1783 and left in late 1799 with his wife Giuseppina Saffiotti, and their several-month-old son Vincenzo and Paolo's brother Ignazio (1776-1828) for Palermo, where he started a shop selling herbs, spices and quinine. [5]