La famiglia è originaria da Roma e nobilitata da S.M. il re Vittorio Emanuele III con regio Decreto motu proprio 21 agosto 1922 col titolo di conte (mpr) e col predicato onorifico di Villareia (mf), con Regio Decreto motu proprio 24 giugno 1923 RR. LL. PP. 29 luglio 1923 in riconoscimento di altissime eccezionali benemerenze nella guerra italo-austriaca compiute nell’alto adriatico dall’ufficiale di aviazione Eugenio nel 1918 e per le quali ottenne la medaglia d’oro al valor militare. La famiglia è iscritta nel Libro d’oro in persona di Eugenio, di Villareia, deputato al Parlamento. La presenza del motto nella bibliografia documentata della famiglia ci conferma l’avita nobiltà raggiunta della casata. Infatti l’origine del motto risale a circa il XIV secolo e deve essere ricercata in quei detti arguti che venivano scritti sui vessilli o bandiere dei cavalieri, esposti alle finestre delle locande in cui questi alloggiavano, in occasione dei tornei, e durante i tornei stessi. Il motto era un pensiero espresso in poche parole facente allusione a un sentimento palese o nascosto, a una qualità, a un ricordo storico, per stimolo al coraggio o onore. Era scelta dal capo della famiglia, dal cavaliere entrante in lizza o data dal sovrano al proprio uomo ligio. Motto della famiglia: Più alto, più oltre. Riguardo a questo cognome abbiamo ritrovato ulteriori informazioni storiche in altri archivi. Purtroppo in lingua originale Inglese. : This Spanish and Italian habitation name CASAGRANDE was extrapolated from the word CASA meaning ‘house, hut, cottage cabin’. It perhaps primarily denoted the occupier of the most distinguished house in the village. The name is also spelt CASIUS, CASSELLA, CASINO, CASOTTI and CASSETTA. 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. A noble member of the name mentions Giovanni Della CASA (1503-1556) the Italian author and prelate, born near Florence. He was appointed archbishop of Benevento in 1544. He is remembered for stylish lyric verse and Il Galateo Ovvero De’Costumi (1558) a manual of etiquette….
Noble title: Conti
Coat of arms: Troncato: di azzurro e di rosso al grifone d’oro fissante una stella (di 5 punte) d’oro…