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*
Raimondo Abela-Capitano
della Verga, 1390.
* Michele Falzon., Vice-Admiral and Capitano della Verga in 1525, who hosted the Grand Master de L'Isle Adam for 10 days at his Palace, Palazzo Falzon, when the Grand Master came to Notabile in May 1530, to swear to uphold the privileges
granted to the Maltese by successive Kings of Aragon, Spain and Austria.
* Magn.
Antonio Manduca..
Knight of the Holy Roman Empire, who was 10
times Capitiano della Verga and many times Giuato
of the island's Consiglio Populare.
* Mariano Testaferrata., one of the Patricians who
greeted Grand Master de L'Ise Adam.
* Giacomo
Cumbo., one of the Patricians who
greeted Grand Master de L'Ise Adam. Giurato, 1575, 1585, 1589, 1602.
* Demetrio
Cassia., one of the Patricians who greeted Grand Master de L'Ise Adam.
* Bartolomeo
Xara., one of the Patricians who
greeted Grand Master de L'Ise Adam. Father of
Judge Antonio Manduca's first wife, Aloisea.
*
Count Ignazio Wizzini Paleologo, Roman Patrician, Knight of the
Equestrian Military Order of St Benedict of Avis of Portugal and the Holy
Sword. Lieutenant of the "Reggimento di Fanteria di Notabile", Lieutenant
in the Magisterial Household cavalry, Commissioner of Malta's Hospital
in joint office with the Grand Prior of Germany from 1730
until his death in 1744.
* Count
Gio' Antonio Ciantar,
Count Wizzini's son in-law, the poet and
historian, who made one of the 38 members of the "Academic Literaire de Belles Lettres
de Paris" by King Louis XV of France.
*
Giuseppe Ciantar., father of the above
poet-who was "Depositario" of the Holy
Inquisition.
*
Matteo
Vassallo, Uditore to Grand
Master Garzes.
* Giovanni Tomaso Testaferrata.,
husband of Elena de Robertis, Ambassador in
Sicily 1619-1630.
*
Giacomo de Robertis,
from Bologna, Italy-Captain of Malta's Artillery,
whose mother Camilla Aldobrandini was a relative
of Pope Clement VIII.
On
his paternal side, Chev. Camilleri
is descendant from Sir Agostino Portelli (1780-1854), a famous
philanthropist and active in most legislative and administrative affairs of
Malta, during the
early British rule. He also founded the Chamber of Commerce, and was its
first President. HM. Queen Victoria honoured him
with a KCMG.
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