Di origine normanna, e feudataria fin dal tempo dei re svevi. Da Roma passò in Sorrento e poi in Napoli, dove ha goduto nobiltà al seggio di Capuano, come pure in Reggio, in Stilo, in Messina ed in Genova. Ebbe la signoria di quattordici baronie e dei marchesati di Padula e Prignano. Giovanni, Guglielmo e Francesco furono Cardinali; Alessandro Vice-Duca del ducato di Amalfi; Bartolomeo, senatore di Palermo nel 1413. Di questa famiglia non si hanno più notizie. Altro ramo. Bartolomeo Carbone fu Senatore di Palermo nel 1413, parimente suo figlio Corrado gentiluomo, e Notar Regio del Re Alfonso, dal quale fu onorato con principali incarichi, e il figlio Nicolò anche dal Re Ferdinando con l’ufficio di Segretario del Regno, nel quale gli seguì suo figlio Gio. nel 1473. Procreò costui a Nicolò Antonio, che fu Senatore di Palermo nel 1525, e 1539, e i suoi posteri anche in molti altri uffici. Altro ramo. Questa famiglia è stata ascritta all’Albergo Franchi. 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.. Riguardo a questo cognome abbiamo ritrovato ulteriori informazioni storiche in altri archivi. Purtroppo in lingua originale Inglese. : This Spanish and French Last Name of CARBONE was a nickname for a man with dark hair or a swarthy complicatedion, primarily rendered in medieval documents in the form CARBONIS (charcoal). Surnames having a derivation from nicknames form the broadest and most miscellaneous class of last names, encompassing many different types of origin. The most typical classes refer adjectivally to the general physical aspect of the person concerned, or to his character. Many nicknames refer to a man’s size or height, while others make reference to a favoured article of clothing or style of dress. Many last names extrapolated from the names of animals and birds. In the Middle Ages ideas were held about the characters of other living creatures, based on observation, and these associations were reflected and reinforced by large bodies of folk tales featuring animals behaving as humans. 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. The name has numerous variant spellings which include CHARBONELL, CARBONELL, SHRAPNELL, CHERBONNEAU and CARBONELLI. The earliest French hereditary last names are found in the 12th century, at more or less the same time as they arose in England, but they are by no means common before the 13th century, and it was not until the 15th century that they stabilized to any great extent; before then a Last Name might be handed down for two or three generations, but then abandoned in favour of another. In the south, many French last names have come in from Italy over the centuries, and in Northern France, Germanic influence can frequently be detected. 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: Di verde, a tre pali d’oro; con la banda di rosso attraversante sul tutto…