The Albergoni (or Albrigoni/Albergone) family was an Italian noble family, which originated in Lombardy. [1]
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Their coat of arms was blue in the shield, featuring a golden lion and three stars above. [1]
The Albergoni (or Albrigoni/Albergone) family was an Italian noble family, which originated in Lombardy. [1]
Their coat of arms was blue in the shield, featuring a golden lion and three stars above. [1]
The first known member of this family was Ortensio (or Guazzo/Guazzone) Albergoni [2] and he is mentioned in 1189.
The family was first ennobled in 1519 in connection with Giovan Giacomo Albergoni being admitted to the General Consiglio in Crema.
A short lived cadet branch of the family was created when Cristoforo Zurla married an Albergoni heiress, [3] took his wife's surname thus creating the Zurla Albergoni branch. The couples son, Marc’Antonio Maria Zurla Albergoni, died childless in 1757.
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