The Sicilian nobility was a privileged hereditary class in the Kingdom of Sicily, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the Kingdom of Italy, whose origins...
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that have been used by the Sicilian nobility. Over the centuries many families emerged as landed aristocracy or nobility similar to the English gentry...
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Alphons (section Iberian/Sicilian nobility)
Look up Alphons or Alfonso in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alphons (Latinized Alphonsus, Adelphonsus, or Adefonsus) is a male given name recorded from...
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Sicilian Baroque is the distinctive form of Baroque architecture which evolved on the island of Sicily, off the southern coast of Italy, in the 17th and...
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The Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra (Italian: [ˈkɔːza ˈnɔstra, ˈkɔːsa -], Sicilian: [ˈkɔːsa ˈnɔʂː(ɽ)a]; "our thing"), also referred to as simply Mafia, is...
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Fisichella is an Italian noble family, forming part of the Sicilian nobility. Members of the family include multiple judges and prelates, among them a...
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Baron of Altavilla Salina (category Sicilian noble families)
Altavilla Salina (Barone della salina di Altavilla) is a title of Sicilian nobility held by the Adragna family. The family is of Norman ancestry, holding...
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as a "merciless" criticism of that class; many among the surviving Sicilian nobility certainly saw it as such, and were scandalized that one of their own...
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Francesco Branciforte (category Sicilian nobility)
Francesco Branciforte Barresi (15 March 1575 – 23 February 1622) was an aristocrat, Marquis of Militello and 4th prince of Butera, as well as a notable...
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Siculo-Arabic (redirect from Sicilian arabic)
Siculo-Arabic or Sicilian Arabic (Arabic: اللَّهْجَة الْعَرَبِيَّة الصِّقِلِّيَّة, romanized: al-lahja l-ʿarabiyya ṣ-ṣiqilliyya) is the term used for varieties...
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Francesco I Ventimiglia (category Sicilian nobility)
Francesco I Ventimiglia (1285-2 January 1338) was an Italian nobleman and politician. He inherited the title of Count of Geraci. The Ventimiglia of Sicily...
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Emanuele Notarbartolo (category Nobility from Palermo)
Sicilian Mafia's first eminent victim in 1893. Of aristocratic origins – Notarbartolo being one of the most prominent families of Sicilian nobility and...
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Prince of Lampedusa (category Sicilian noble families)
Minor title in the Sicilian nobility...
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Lanza family (category Sicilian nobility)
family, barons of Longi, it represents one of the major dynasties of the Sicilian aristocracy. Over the centuries, this family was at the top of political...
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Kingdom of Sicily (redirect from Sicilian kingdom)
The Kingdom of Sicily (Latin: Regnum Siciliae; Sicilian: Rignu di la Sicìlia, Regnu dâ Sicilia;Italian: Regno di Sicilia) was a state that existed in Sicily...
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Alexander Hood, 5th Duke of Bronte (category Sicilian nobility)
Kensington, London, was a British courtier and Sicilian nobleman. "Discreetly homosexual" and described by his Sicilian biographer as "intelligent and refined"...
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Ventimiglia family (category Sicilian nobility)
family of Liguria. Descendants of the family held positions and titles of nobility in Sicily in Mediaeval times and later. Giovanni I Ventimiglia (1383–1475)...
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Ambrogio Santapau (category Sicilian nobility)
Ambrogio Santapau was a 16th-century Sicilian nobleman. Originally, marquis of Licodia, a title he inherited from his father Porzio, in 1563 King Philip...
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Andrew of Cicala (category Sicilian nobility)
of Sicily. His mother was Sica Musca. Andrew was raised on the family's Sicilian estates. He is recorded for the first time in June 1216 in Palermo, when...
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Conrad of Antioch (category Sicilian nobility)
with festivities put on by the Ghibellines. When Conradin's army entered Sicilian territory a few days later, Conrad was leading a contingent of Tuscan militia...
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The Sicilian Wars, or Greco-Punic Wars, were a series of conflicts fought between ancient Carthage and the Greek city-states led by Syracuse over control...
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Celestine. The crown of Sicily, however, was harder to gain, as the Sicilian nobility had chosen Count Tancred of Lecce as their king. Henry began his work...
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Rino Fisichella (category People of Sicilian descent)
related to the so-named Italian noble family, forming part of the Sicilian nobility, and his ecclesiastical coat of arms is inspired by the family arms...
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Notarbartolo (category Sicilian noble families)
Notarbartolo is one of the main aristocratic families of the Sicilian nobility. Originated in the Middle Ages, it gave to the island numerous personalities...
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Giuseppe Buonfiglio (category Sicilian nobility)
Alba during the Eighty Years' War. On his return to Sicily, he wrote the Sicilian Historia, published in Venice in 1604, imbued "with a municipal pride that...
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The War of the Sicilian Vespers, also shortened to the War of the Vespers, was a conflict waged by several medieval European kingdoms over control of Sicily...
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A Sicilian Romance is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe. It was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. The plot concerns...
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Basile (noble family) (category Medieval Italian nobility)
ancient family of the Sicilian nobility, invested with the Baronia del Grano in 1473. The family was ascribed to the nobility of Messina in the fifteenth...
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Fisichella family is an Italian noble family that forms part of the Sicilian nobility. Fisichella may also refer to: Francesco Fisichella [it] (born 1841)...
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Fabrizio Branciforte, 3rd prince of Butera (category Sicilian nobility)
Sicilian aristocrat (1551-1624)...
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