Capece Piscicelli Family ( with succession to Piromallo )

This is where my research began.  Having my great grandfather’s card, I knew that it matched the crest on the far right.  However, in all my research, I could not find his name in the family line attached below.  As Piromallo is not a very common name, I was really stumped for quite some time.  It seemed very logical that I was related in some way to this line, but I don’t assume anything and needed proof.  After a few years, I hire Bella Italia Genealogy to help.

Not only did they find my grandfather’s birth record, but also his father’s birth record, tying them both to Count Giacomo and Countess Beatrice.  See line  K3  in the lineage chart.  Duchess Beatrice merged the family names, and what appears to have happened is that only her eldest son, that inherited the title, took all three names.  My great great grandfather, and his siblings remained with their fathers name which was Piromallo.Famous Neapolitan patrician family of the Chair of Capuana, acting part of the political clique of Capeci. He notices from the time of the Normen, it was made related by Capece Zurlo (already Piscicelli) and Capece Aprano, families with whom it was sharing the coat of arms and probably the common origin. Initially they were carrying the surname Piscicelli, then become Capece Piscicelli. They had the family grave in the church of Santa Restituta to Naples. According to De Lellis to this origin they belonged: Tommaso called Masello Piscicelli, defined “Vir Potens et Dives”, was a commander of 100 riders and later on commander of the personal guard of Regina Joanna I of Sicily; Ligorio, Captain to war of the Principality Farther under Joanna I; Ottinello, Andreazzo, Sorrel and Rinaldo Piscicelli were named in the amnesty allowed in 1380 at Regina Joanna I; Joy (about 1384) was an Abbess of the monastery of Santa Patrizia to Naples before 8-1-1376; Joy dictates Cicella (* shutters 6-5-1393 1438), perhaps nipte of the preceded one, she was an Abbess of the monastery of Santa Patrizia to Naples; in 1382 Juliano Piscicelli had 20 annual ounces (transmissible to the heirs) for war merits on the incomes of the bagliva of Francavilla and of the province of Abruzzo; Malefatto lived during the reign of Ladislao I of Sicily, was a Prior of Capua by the Order of San Giovanni of Jerusalem; Ettore, Captain of King Ladislao I was charged by this sovereign with reforming the army; Gurrello, faithful partisan of Regina Joanna II, married Covella Dentice and had a son of name Francesco, died without heirs it; Piscicella had in gift of King Ferdinando I of Naples the tower of Sant’ Angelo Limosano and Civitella Vecchia, and there married Giovanni of Lamentations Gentleman of Sicignano; Sorrel Piscicelli had in 1499 the feudal properties and burgensatici confiscated to Antonello de Litto. The genealogy includes three families probably tied between them at ties of cousinhood. This branch of the family, the only one who joined the ducal rank without being nevertheless historically the most important, had originated:

Illustre famiglia patrizia napoletana del Seggio di Capuana, facente parte della consorteria dei Capeci. Nota fin dal tempo dei Normanni, era imparentata con i Capece Zurlo (già Piscicelli) e i Capece Aprano, famiglie con le quali condivideva lo stemma e probabilmente l’origine comune. Inizialmente portavano il cognome Piscicelli, poi diventato Capece Piscicelli. Avevano il sepolcro di famiglia nella chiesa di Santa Restituta a Napoli. Secondo il De Lellis a questa stirpe appartennero: Tommaso detto Masello Piscicelli, definito “Vir Potens et Dives”, fu comandante di 100 cavalieri e in seguito comandante della guardia personale della Regina Giovanna I di Sicilia; Ligorio, Capitano a guerra del Principato Ultra sotto Giovanna I; Ottinello, Andreazzo, Sauro e Rinaldo Piscicelli erano nominati nella amnistia concessa nel 1380 dalla Regina Giovanna I; Letizia (+ ca. 1384) fu Badessa del monastero di Santa Patrizia a Napoli prima dell’8-1-1376; Letizia detta Cicella (* ante 6-5-1393 + 1438), forse nipte della precedente, fu Badessa del monastero di Santa Patrizia a Napoli; nel 1382 Giuliano Piscicelli ebbe 20 once annue (trasmissibili agli eredi) per meriti di guerra sulle rendite della bagliva di Francavilla e della provincia d’Abruzzo; Malefatto, vivente durante il regno di Ladislao I di Sicilia, fu Priore di Capua per l’Ordine di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme; Ettore, Capitano del Re Ladislao I fu incaricato da questo sovrano di riformare l’esercito; Gurrello, fedele partigiano della Regina Giovanna II, sposò Covella Dentice e ne ebbe un figlio di nome Francesco, morto senza eredi; Piscicella ebbe in dono dal Re Ferdinando I di Napoli la torre di Sant’Angelo Limosano e Civitella Vecchia, e sposò Giovanni di Lagni Signore di Sicignano; Sauro Piscicelli ebbe nel 1499 i beni feudali e burgensatici confiscati ad Antonello de Litto. La genealogia comprende tre famiglie, probabilmente legate tra loro da vincoli di cuginanza. Questo ramo della famiglia, l’unico che giunse al rango ducale senza essere però storicamente il più importante, fu originato da:

Capece Piscicelli Nobili Napoletani 

Capece Piscicelli Naples Nobility 

CAPECE. – The family Capece, said in origin Cacapice, original of Sorrento, moved in Naples to the Manfredi times. It was persecuted by Carlo I of Angiò, sicché those his components that managed to do it, they left the reign. After some time nevertheless the exiles returned in country and were readmitted in the enjoyment of the feuds and of the wealth, of which they had been undressed. The C. were inscribed to the Neapolitan chair of Capuana and Nest, and, not to remain inferior in front of the Caracciolo in the elections of the rappresentamti to the chairs, they united with other families, who the Piscicelli, the Tomacelli, the Bozzuto, I Bark, the Galeota, the Minutolo, the Zurlo. All these associated the own surname with that C., forming so an alone familiar organism, that was operating I compact in the civic life, and it had also (1584) a particular “Mountain” said about the Capece, to provide the figliuole females and to succour the males belonging to several families of the group. As far as he has called himself it must not be considered exact the derivation of all the families, who united the name to that C., with the common trunk of the C. themselves.

Between the members of the family C. we will remember a Marine one, which ran the Manfredonia construction, he participated in the battle of Benevento and – with the brother Giacomo – was sent to the torture at Carlo’s d’ Angiò, to have sided with Corradino di Svevia. More famous two was another brother Corrado, gentleman of Atripalda. These combatté for Manfredi to Benevento; then, when Corradino gone down in Italy, did Corrado get off in Sicily with Federico di Castiglia, and drew the island to rebel against Carlo d’ Angiò. Renowned vicar of the young man Hohenstaufen, C. held the Sicily as long as the Angevin ones forced it to surrender in the fortress of Centuripe. Having fallen on the hands of Guglielmo l’ Estendart, (1270) had become blind and hung. In the Sixteenth century we find Antonio C., reader of civil and feudal right in the Neapolitan Study, Ferdinando’s royal advisor the Catholic and of Carlo V, author of a harvesting of Decisiones (Venice 1556 and 1564) emitted at the courts of which it was part. It died to Naples in 1545 Also in the sec. XVI was lived by the Latin poet Scipione C. (v.) and Porzia C., wife of another poet Bernardino Rota, died in 1559. In the Seven hundred the teatino is a Gaetano Mary C., archbishop of Trani and teacher of ethics in the Neapolitan University of 1754 to ’69.