Nobility

The most ancient reference recovered on this family laughed them to 15 May of the 1412. Like brought back in volume 5 of the Crollalanza, " in those dì, some Knights of the earth of Sicily " (perhaps just Catania or Agrigento), " they reached the flat one of Palermo and carried on them vessilli in occasion of tornei written following: " Panzica Obsequio Mitigantur ". In the successive century some are looked at exponents of the Panzica lineage to primeggiare in the political life sicialian: a Panzica Petrus like mayor of Palermo, (1530-1536), and a Panzica Stephan, bishop of the diocese of Messina (1551 -1561). The presence of the maxim of family documented in the bibliography of this family us confirmation the high caught up nobility of the lineage. The maxim was a witty saying, a thought expressed in little words making reference to a evident or hidden feeling, one quality, an historical memory, for stimulus to the courage or honor. The maxim was chosen from the head of the Family, from the knight entering lists or given from the monarch just to the man ligio. It is on the base of these considerations that can reasonably be thought that the ancient one stirpe of the Panzica enjoyed privileges of Nobility even if it does not turn out to never have possessed some feudo.

~ Panzica Obsequio Mitigantur ~

consulted Bibliography: Historical dictionary Blasonico Fiorentino. Vol. II Bernardi Publisher and other Historical surveying - Heraldic executed in the respect of L. 633/41