Il vincitore di Abukir, l’eroe della reazione napoletana, Orazio, ottenne, con privilegio dato a 10 ottobre esecutoriato a 19 novembre 1799, dal re Ferdinando di Borbone, la concessione della terra di Bronte con il titolo di duca e con il mero e misto impero; ducea che, in seguito alla morte di detto ammiraglio, avvenuta da vincitore nella celebre battaglia di Trafalgar, passava al fratello di lui Guglielmo, che ne ottenne investitura a 29 maggio 1805. 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: Trafalgar. Riguardo a questo cognome abbiamo ritrovato ulteriori informazioni storiche in altri archivi. Purtroppo in lingua originale Inglese. : The Last Name of NELSON was of the baptismal group of last names ‘the son of Nell’ an ancient and almost forgotten personal name. Early records of the name mention John Robert Nelleson, 1324, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Nell Fawkes was documented in County Cambridge, 1333. Thomas Nellson was of Yorkshire was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. Henry Nelson and Sarah Raby were married in Canterbury, Kent in the year 1687. Buried. James Nelson (in the vault) at St. Peter, Cornhill, London in 1740. The acquisition of last names in Europe during the past eight hundred years has been affected by many factors, including social class and social structure, naming practices in neighbouring cultures, and indigenous cultural tradition. On the whole, the richer and more powerful classes tended to acquire last names earlier than the working classes and the poor, while last names were quicker to catch on in urban areas than in more sparsely populated rural areas. These facts suggest that the origin of last names is associated with the emergence of bureaucracies. As long as land tenure, military service, and fealty were matters of direct relationship between a lord and his vassals, the need did not arise for stable distinguishing epithets to mark out one carl from another. But as societies became more complicated, and as such matters as the management of tenure and in particular the collection of taxes were delegated to unique functionaries, it became imperative to have a more complicated system of nomenclature to distinguish one individual from another reliably and unambiguously. Horatio, Viscount NELSON (1758-1805) was the English naval commander, born in Burnham Thorpe rectory, Norfolk. He entered the navy in 1770, made a voyage to the West Indies, served in the arctic expedition of 1773, and afterwards the East Indies, where he returned invalided in September 1776. In 1803 he was promoted to commander in the Mediterranean. He blockaded Toulon for 18 months, but in March 1805 the French fleet slipped out to sea, and were eventually caught by Nelson off Cape Trafalgar in 1805. Nelson directed the engagement from the ‘Victory’ but was mortally wounded by a sniper’s bullet in the hour of victory. His body was brought home and buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral….
Noble title: Nobili
Coat of arms: D’oro, alla croce gigliata di nero, attraversata da una banda del capo bordata di rosso, caricata di tre granate fumanti al naturale, e la fascia d’azzurro caricata del motto Trafalgar di argento attraversante sul tutto; col capo d’argento, al mare fluttuoso caricato di un albero di palma posto tra un castello una nave sbattuta dalle onde, il tutto al natur…