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Tracey
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An Irish Family
History |
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Trasci family of Italy |
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A branch of the Tracy
family is BAFFA TRASCI AMALFITANI also
descendent from the English de Tracy. |
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This Italian branch of
the family descent from one of the sons of the Baron of Barnstaple who in
1204 |
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moved to Constantinople
to fight in the 4th crusade. There he became orthodox and took the name
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SPERADIONE (in Honor of
Saint Speradione). His grand-nephew was the hero GIORGIO de Trasci who
fought |
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against the Turkish army
in 1535 and for his braveness was created “Chevalier” by Emperor Charles
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who took all his family
and relatives in Naples, Italy. His grand daughter Teodolinda de Trasci |
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(14/5/1555 - 25/12/1593)
was the last of the de Trasci family and so as not to lose the surname
she |
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got the right from the
king of Naples to add to her husband’s surname her own one. She got
married |
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in 1571 to STEFANO
BAFFA, descendent from an Albanian family who came in Italy in 1471 and so
the family |
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became BAFFA TRASCI. To
give her family’s surname to her siblings she had to prove the
historical |
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importance of it, and
she proved that her line was descendent from the line of baron of
Barnstaple. |
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In 1799 princess
Teodolinda grand-grand-grand-grand-grand son GABRIELE BAFFA TRASCI (1770 -
1816) married |
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lady Maria Saveria
Amalfitani, daughter of the 7° Marques of Crucoli and added his wife’s
surname. Today |
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this line of the Tracy
family, living in Naples, is included into the 5th part of “Annuario della
Nobiltà |
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Italiana”, a Peerage of
the Italian aristocracy. The coat of arm used since XIII century was
different |
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from the original
branch; the coat of arm of the TRASCI was green with a cockatrice upon a
silver plough. |
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NOTE: Early references to
the Norman/English Tracy family often use the spelling Trasci. |
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The BAFFA TRASCI coat
of arm is the attached: on the left is light blue with a green fava bean
(BAFFA) |
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and on the right is,
light blue ground, with the green cocktrice, crowned, upon a silver plough
(TRASCI). |
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Ref: |
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http://www.nobili-napoletani.it/Baffa-Trasci.htm |
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1843 Boston Weekly
Magazine |
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Leontio Vernon de Tracy,
a young Italian nobleman, now lecturing in Montreal, is almost a match for
Eliha Burritt, the learned blacksmith. |
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He is an exile, and has
spent his time in roaming over the world. Though not yet twenty-one, he
understands 24 languages and speaks 17. |
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