Cominciato da G.B. di Crollalanza e continuato poscia da suo figlio Goffredo, l’annuario della Nobiltà Italiana con il dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili italiane ci fà menzione di questa illustre famiglia, originaria del Piemonte. Comparisce con molto splendore frà la nobiltà piemontese questa casata, gli antenati della quale venuti già molti secoli prima in Piemonte, hanno con la loro riputatione apprestata ha discendenti loro onorata strada, trà le maggiori dignità della patria. Famiglia di antica e nobile tradizione, originaria di Novara. Il commendator G.B. di Crollalanza riporta la blasonatura di questa famiglia nei volumi del suo Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane.
Barba è molto diffuso nel pesarese a Fossombrone, Fano, Pesaro e Mombaroccio, e nell’anconetano a Mergo, Ancona e Sassoferrato, con un piccolo ceppo nel maceratese a Civitanova Marche e San Severino Marche, uno a Terni ed un ceppo a Roma, questo cognome dovrebbero derivare dal termine italiano arcaico barbarese, che significa straniero, ma può riferirsi anche a chi proviene dalla Barberia, zona del Africa settentrionale occidentale, probabilmente ad identificare i capostipiti come estranei al corpo cittadino.. Riguardo a questo cognome abbiamo ritrovato ulteriori informazioni storiche in altri archivi. Purtroppo in lingua originale Inglese. : Surnames extrapolated from placenames are divided into two broad categories; topographic names and habitation names. Topographic names are extrapolated from general descriptive references to someone who lived near a physical feature such as an oak tree, a hill, stream or a church. Habitation names are extrapolated from pre-existing names signifying towns, villages and farmsteads. Other classes of local names include those extrapolated from the names of rivers, individual houses with signs on them, regions and whole states. This Last Name of BARBA was a Catalan habitation name from a place in the province of Tarragona, so called from the Latin Barbarianum meaning ‘the place of Barbarius’. The name was borne by an enormously popular but almost certainly, non-existent saint, who according to legend was imprisoned in a tower and later put to death by her own father for refusing to recant her Christian beliefs. Occasionally the name was used of a foreigner, in particular for a Moor or one from the Barbary coast, and hence was applied to a man of swarthy appearance. The name has numerous variant spellings which include Barbara, Barbery, Barbarin, Barbaroux and Barberan. In the 8th century, Spain fell under the control of the Moors, and this influence, which lasted into the 12th century, has also left its mark on Hispanic last names. A few names are based directly on Arabic personal names. The majority of Spanish occupational and nickname last names, however, are based on ordinary Spanish derivatives. In Spain identifying patronymics are to be found as early as the mid-9th century, but these modified with each generation, and hereditary last names seem to have come in slightly later in Spain than in England and France. As well as the names of the traditional major saints of the Christian Church, many of the most common Spanish last names are extrapolated from personal names of Germanic origin. For the most part these names are characteristically Hispanic. They derive from the language of the Visigoths, who controlled Spain between the mid-5th and early 8th centuries….
Noble title: Nobili
Coat of arms: D’azzurro, all’albero al naturale, sradicato: sostenuto da due leoni d’oro, affrontati e controrampanti; col capo d’oro, all’aquila spiegata e coronata di ner…