Antichi signori di Berra, poi di Zoetto, Falicone e Caudalunga in Provenza. Antonio nel 1602 ottenne la baronia da Carlo Emanuele I. Trà le più antiche, e illustri famiglie che dalla Francia, e dalla Spagna che fiorirono in tempo de Regi Francesi della Carolea, e delle case reali Spagnole, Aragona, Castiglia e altre, visse con splendore questa famiglia, d’onde ella poi sotto auspici militari, è governi passò in italia, e nelle varie regioni, Regioni opulenti di tutte l’humane grandezze. Ne è nota l’origine della famiglia e questo induce a supposizioni che offrano la possibilità di promuovere richerche da cui trarre notizie attendibili. Passarono nei secoli trascorsi con vari Rè alla conquista delle terre del Regno d’Italia molti Signori, e Cavalieri Francesi, e Spagnuoli; i quali, dopo la vittoria da quel Rè ottenuta, venendo dal medesimo rimunerati di Stati, e di ricchezze, diedero vita a una prosapia e si stabilirino con loro abitazioni in castelli, o torri murate, e parti del Regno, in ricompensa de’loro servizi militari; fra’ quali questa famiglia.
. Riguardo a questo cognome abbiamo ritrovato ulteriori informazioni storiche in altri archivi. Purtroppo in lingua originale Inglese. : The Last Name of BERRA was a locational name ‘the dweller at the borough’ the small town or village. Local last names, by far the largest group, extrapolated from a place name where the man held land or from the place from which he had come, or where he actually lived. These local last names were primarily preceded by a preposition such as “de”, “atte”, “by” or “in”. The names may derive from a manor held, from working in a religious dwelling or from literally living by a wood or marsh or by a stream. Following the Crusades in Europe a need was felt for a family name. This was recognized by those of noble blood, who realised the prestige and practical advantage it would add to their status. The name has travelled widely throughout Europe and into Italy and Spain. Early records of the name mention William atte Bergh, 1273, County Somerset. Geoffrey de la Burg, County Devon, ibid. Thomas Burye and Hannah Parmenter were married at St. James’s, Clerkenwell, London in the year 1646. Edmund Berry and Mary George were married at St. George’s Chapel, Mayfair, London in the year 1748. In Old England and during the Middle Ages the name denoted a fortified manor house, and the Last Name was used for someone who lived near or was employed in a manor house. The word BURH also came to denote a fortified town, and is therefore a habitation name from any of the various places so named. The Last Name is euniquely common in County Lancashire, where it is no doubt mainly, if not exclusively a habitation name from the town of this name, but may also be from various other less important places which are similarly named. Most of the European last names in states such as England, Scotland and France were formed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The process had started somewhat earlier and had continued in some places into the 19th century, but the norm is that in the tenth and eleventh centuries people did not have last names, whereas by the fifteenth century most of the population had acquired a second name. The associated coat of arms is recorded in Sir Bernard Burkes General Armory. Ulster King of Arms in 1884….
Noble title: Baroni
Coat of arms: Di rosso, al mastio d’argento torricellato di tre pezzi, murato di nero, e caricato da una banda scorciata e in divisa, d’azzurr…