Famiglia di antica e nobile tradizione originaria della Sicilia. 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. Di quante famiglie illustri d’antica nobilità di sangue, e di attioni militari hanno fiorite nella Spagna, e nel Regno di Sicilia, non la si vegge seconda a niuna questa chiarissima famiglia. Però innanzi, che reportiamo tutte le cose, che di lei hanno scritto i cronisti di Spagna, e gl’altri antichi autori, si inserirà una antica descrittione sopra la medesima famiglia ritrovata trà gli scrittorii. Il Minutoli , Inveges, Mugnos e altri raccolti dal Palizzolo Gravina nel suo “Il Blasone in Sicilia, ossia Raccolta Araldica, stampato in Palermo nel 1871-75”. E tanta chiara ne’ Regni di Spagna per le virtù delle lettere, e dell’armi, per la sua antica nobiltà, per le grandi ricchezze, e per i nobili congiungimenti matrimoniali, la famiglia, che non è bisogno, che si fatichi in raccontargli in questo elogio, mentre nell’historie Spagnuole vivamente si scorgono: si dirà solamente de’ Cavalieri, che di lei indi vennero in Sicilia col Rè Martino fra’ quali questa famiglia.. 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 BARBARA 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’argento, a tre fascie d’azzurro, accompagnate da dodici gigli dello stesso tre, tre, tre e tre…