Filangieri family

The family Filangieri is an big family of the Italian nobility of origin Norman, pertaining to the italo-Norman baronnage and established well in the southern half of the peninsula since the middle of the 11th century. It occupies an important place in the history of the kingdom of Sicily and the Southern Italy, even after the fall of the Hauteville at the end of the 12th century.

Presentation

The surname is in the beginning a Norman nickname taken by four brothers ( Filli Angerii in Latin): “ Fitz Anger ”, i.e., “ wire Anger ” (“wire of Anger”; Anger being a proper name).

Á the origin of this family, noble Norman of the name of Roger of Arnes (Normandy), which seems to belong to the ducal family Norman, resulting from the chief Norwegian Viking Rollon the Walker. Roger d' Arnes dies the November 2nd 1023.

One knows at least two children to him, two wire which leave the duchy of Normandy for Italy of the South: Turgis and Anger.

  • Turgis, become in Italy count of Sanseverino and Rota, dies in November 1081. In 1067, it is excommunicated by the pope Alexandre II. Indeed, with Guillaume of Hauteville and Guimond de Moulins, two Norman, it seized the goods belonging to the archbishop's palace of Salerno. It is the origin of the connects family of Sanseverino;

  • Anger, valorous warlike, is a companion of Robert Guiscard with which it arrives to Italy towards 1047, probably forming part of the band of this last in Calabria. It receives later grounds in the area of Salerno and dies in April 1104. Buried in the church of de' Tirreni Undermined (close to Salerno). It is with the origne family branch of Filangieri.

Four wire of Anger take later the nickname of “Fitz Anger”, “Anger Wire”, which gives Italian family name later: Filangieri. The junior by these brothers, Tancrède Filangieri ( Tancrède Fitz Anger/Wire Anger ), is mentioned like making party by the principal Norman barons present during crowning at Palermo of Roger II of Sicily (1130).

Later, Richard Filangieri ( Riccardo Filangieri ), is, in first half of the 13th century, marshal of Empire of the kingdom of Sicily (under domination of the Hohenstaufen) and of the Germanic Empire, directed by the king-emperor Frederic-Roger of Sicily.

The family Filingieri is resulting from the Filangieri House.

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