Originaria di Venezia. Nicolò, valoroso compagno d’armi di Azzo VIII marchese Estense, si segnalò nel 1208 nella battaglia contro Ezzelino il tiranno. Properzio, si distinse nel 1224 nell’assedio dato da Azzo IX alla Ferrata per discacciare Salinguerra Guaramonti, che si era impadronito di Ferrara. Taddeo fu ambasciatore a diverse Corti. Altro ramo. Figurano come cittadini cospicui fin dal 1314, in cui Pietro Capelli della Cinquantina di S. Pietro fu scacciato dalla città con altri 300 fra i principali cittadini, perché troppo ligi agli Estensi, che erano stati allora spodestati dal popolo. Francesco fu podestà di Bologna nel 1374. Giuseppe e Tommaso eleganti poeti. Altro ramo. Famiglia di antica e nobile tradizione, di cui non si hanno notizie certe sulle sue origini. 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. Altro ramo. Antica e nobile famiglia di Cremona. Dette alla patria due decurioni; Pietro nel 1387, e Gian-Battista nel 1591. Che i membri della famiglia Capelli siano noncuranti delle cose volgari, ripromettendosi dalle sole loro energie la dovuta ricompensa, lo provano i documenti fino ad oggi conosciuti come il Dizionario Storico-Blasonico del commendatore G.B. di Crollalanza che ne ha raccolte le tracce lasciate dalla famiglia in quelle città ove ebbe dimora ricoprendo cariche legislative, militari o altro, contribuendo non poco alla riuscita di quei documenti utili alla scoperta di questa famiglia.. Riguardo a questo cognome abbiamo ritrovato ulteriori informazioni storiche in altri archivi. Purtroppo in lingua originale Inglese. : This French, Italian and Spanish Last Name of CAPELLI was primarily extrapolated from the Old French word ‘chape’ meaning a hooded cloak, cape, hood or hat, and was applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of either cloaks or hats, or as a nickname for a habitual wearer of a distinctive cloak or hat. The name was written in medieval documents in the Latin form CAPPA or CAPA. The two Latin byforms were borrowed into Old English as COEPPE and CAP, respectively, becoming in modern English Capper and Cope, with later semantic differences. The name has numerous variant spellings which include CHAPE, CAPE, CHAPUT, CHAPET, KAPPE, KEPPER and CAPEL. As the agricultural depression of southern Italy worsened towards the end of the 19th century, people started to escape to the New World. The exodus started in earnest in 1887 with Brazil and other parts of Latin America being the original destinations. By 1893, the economy had improved in the United States and people headed there from Italy in greater and greater numbers. In 1898 there were more Italian immigrants to the USA than from any other state. In the post war era, more than a quarter of Italians left the state for a new life. They joined a flood of immigrants to America which was averaging a million a year in the pre war years. The origins of Italian last names are not clear, and much work remains to be done on medieval Italian records. It seems that stable bynames, in some cases hereditary, were in use in the Venetian Republic by the end of the 10th century. The typical Italian Last Name endings are ‘i’ and ‘o’, the former being characteristic of northern Italy. The singular form ‘o’ is more typical of southern Italy. 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