Antica famiglia, originaria della Sicilia. Giovanni fu Castellano del Castello di Leocata, sotto reFederico III; Andrea, suo figlio, in ricompensa ai servizi resi, dalla Regina Maria, moglie di re Martino, ebbe l’ufficio di Portolano, del Gargator di Leocata, nel 1397. Si casò, costui, con Giulia, figlia di Giovanni Credele, Signor del Castello dell’Aquila, nel 1402, e procreò Giovanni, il quale, dal re Alfonso, ebbe la Castellania di Leontini, ove si casò con la figlia di Nicolò Speciali, e governò quella Città con la dignità Senatoria nel 1443. Altro ramo. Originaria dai Conti di Marsi, prese il nome dalla contea di Celano, ed ebbe nobiltà in Napoli al seggio di Nido, in San Giorgio, in Polistina, e in Sicilia. Oltre i contadi di Celano, di Albe e di Raiano, fu signora di 22 baronie. Rinaldo dette 108 militi per la spedizione di Terra Santa sotto Guglielmo II; Gualtiero, Conte di Celano, capitano dello Imperatore Federico II, debellò la marca Trivigiana, uccidendo il Principe Aldobrando d’Este. Riccardo fu Arcivescovo di Capua, nel 1204. Nicolò, Gran Giustiziere in tempo di re Ladislao, fu fatto prigioniero col re nella battaglia che ebbe luogo presso S. Germano, contro Luigi d’Angiò, nel 1411. Sposò, egli, Maria Marziano, vedova di Ludovico II d’Angiò. Pietro, Conte di Celano. Inoltre tale famiglia ebbe illustri parentadi tra i quali ricordiamo: Accrocciamuro, d’Aquino Castiglione, Artus, del Balzo, Caldora, Filangieri, Marzano, Piccolomini, Prignano ed altri.. Riguardo a questo cognome abbiamo ritrovato ulteriori informazioni storiche in altri archivi. Purtroppo in lingua originale Inglese. : This French and Spanish Last Name of CELANO was a habitation name from any of the numerous places so called from having once been the site of a hermit’s cell. The name was rendered in medieval documents in the Latin form CELLA (small) room, a derivative of the root CEL-HIDE, conceal. The Spanish cognate CELA denoted a granary or storehouse, and the Last Name may have been acquired as a metonymic occupational name by an official responsible for receiving produce into the lord’s granary. 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. The name has many variants which include CELLANI, CELLESI, CELA, CELLETTI, CELLUCCI and CELLON. 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, a 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. A noble member of the name was Thomas of CELANO (died circa. 1255) the Italian monk, born in CELANO in the Abruzzi. An early disciple of St. Francis of Assisi, he wrote of his life. He spent the years 1221-1228 in the Rhineland. He is reputed to be the author of the hymnn ‘Dies Irae’. In the Middle Ages heraldry came into use as a practical matter. It originated in the devices used to distinguish the armoured warriors in tournament and war, and was also placed on seals as marks of identity. As far as records show, true heraldry started in the middle of the 12th century, and appeared almost simultaneously in several states of Western Europe. The lion depicted in the arms is the noblest of all wild beasts which is made to be the emblem of strength and valour, and is on that account the most frequently borne in Coat-Armour….
Noble title: Conti – Nobili
Coat of arms: D’azzurro, alla banda d’oro…