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- ↑ According to the common genealogical use in Sardinia (and also legal use in Spain), Marquesses are indicated with both the father's and the mother's surnames, whatever the actual form in documents.
- ↑ In order to describe the spouses' houses, main titles of those houses are indicated, in the modern Italian form «of the [title]»