Quarterly — in the 1st and 4th vert a bend argent with six mullets or (Guerri); in the 2nd and 3rd tierced in fess (dall'Oro); over all the Gallone escutcheon, quarterly argent and gules a bend or charged with three mullets (Tricase and Moliterno).
Lineage · Stage 7
Guerri dall'Oro Gallone.
Princes of Tricase and Moliterno, 1862 – today.
A house born in 1862 from the Guerri–dall'Oro marriage, at the origin of the present line of the Princes of Tricase. Through the 1939 wedding between Aldo Guerri dall'Oro and Simonetta della Posta, it gathers the inheritance of the Gallone and of the Dukes of Civitella Alfedena. Counts by Royal Letters Patent of 1967, Princes of Tricase and Moliterno by the Decree of 1999.
History of the house.
The line reunites two ancient traditions. The Tuscan one of the Guerri, from 1300 at Siena where they obtained admission to the patriciate through high public offices (Nanni di Pietro di Giovanni Guerri, 1445, State Archives of Siena); a branch of theirs, having moved to Venice, obtained the title of Count and admission to the Libro d'Oro of the Serenissima.
And the Venetian one of the dall'Oro, originally from Padua (1200) and then counted among the nobles of Treviso, with Gonfaloniers of Justice and Captains of the People at Bologna in the 15th century.
Pietro Giovanni Guerri (b. 1819), an officer at the Grand-Ducal Court of Tuscany, marries Dejanira dall'Oro, the last of her family, adding to his own the names and arms of the House of dall'Oro.
Thus is born the quartered shield: in the 1st and 4th vert a bend argent accompanied by six mullets or (Guerri); in the 2nd and 3rd tierced in fess — azure a mullet or, gules a sheaf of wheat or passed through a ring, barry of argent, or and gules (dall'Oro).
Donna Simonetta della Posta of the Dukes of Civitella Alfedena (Rapallo 1916 – Rome 1986) marries at Rome, on 3 July 1939, Count Aldo Guerri dall'Oro (Padua 1913 – Colli sul Velino 2004). By Royal Letters Patent of King Umberto II of 19 November 1967 she was granted — and authorised to the succession motu proprio — the title of Countess Guerri dall'Oro, and her husband that of Count.
The descendants take the surname Guerri dall'Oro Gallone di Tricase e di Moliterno by Decree of the Minister of Grace and Justice of 21 January 1999. By the Neapolitan female succession, the house today holds the titles of Prince of Tricase and of Moliterno.
Guido Guerri dall'Oro Gallone (1941–2019), physicist engineer and author of the original site, is 11th Prince of Tricase and 8th of Moliterno; his son Simon (b. 1985) is today 12th Prince, father of Léon (b. 2018), 13th Prince.
Family tree of the house.
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Titles of the house
Princes and Counts.
The roots of the four Houses
Tuscany, Veneto, Abruzzo, Terra d'Otranto.
Documents and images
The coat of arms and family documents.
