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Early Origins of the Casabianca family

The surname Casabianca was first found in the culturally rich region of Lombardy, where earliest records date back to the year 1126 in Milan, when Apollonio Casati was Imperial Vicar for Lotario il Sassone.

Early History of the Casabianca family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Casabianca research. The years 1350, 1427, 1435, 1503, 1504, 1507, 1550, 1556, 1565, 1600, 1617, 1625, 1630, 1660, 1675, 1707, 1725 and 1798 are included under the topic Early Casabianca History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Casabianca Spelling Variations

There are many variations of most of those Italian names that originated in the medieval era. Some of these come from regional differences, like the tradition of ending northern names in "o" and southern names in "i". Others come from inaccuracies in the recording process, which were extremely common in the eras before dictionaries standardized spelling. Some of the spelling variations of Casabianca are Casa, Case, Dalla Casa, Dallacasa, Della Casa, Da Ca, Dacca, Da Cha, Dacha, Dalla Ca, Dallaca, Dalla Cha, Dallacha, Casella, Casello, Caselli, Casèl, Casiello, Casillo, Casetta, Casati, Casselli, Casetti, Casèt, Casina, Casine, Casino, Casini, Casola, Casolla, Casol, Casotti, Casone, Casoni, Cason, Casacchia, Casaccia, Casacci, Casassa, Casazza, Casabianca, Casablanca, Cabianca, Casabassa, Cabassa, Casabella, Cabella, Casabona, Cabona, Caboni, Casagrande, Casagrandi, Casamassima, Casanova, Canova, Casavecchia and many more.

Early Notables of the Casabianca family

Prominent among bearers of this family in early times was members of the Casati family of Milan during the late 13th century, who owned many castles and vast amounts of land. Other bearers of the name include Conte Casati, who was a Cardinal, and Giovannino Casati, who was mayor of Piacenza in 1350. Jaime de Casanova (c.1435-1504), a Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal; Pietro Casola (1427-1507), a Catholic Canon, born to a noble Italian family in Milan; Giovanni della Casa (1503-1556) was an author and prelate born near Florence appointed arch-bishop of Benevento. Cherubino Casati was a priest in Milan around 1550...
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Migration of the Casabianca family

Some of the first immigrants to cross the Atlantic and come to North America carried the name Casabianca, or a variant listed above: Sevastian Casola, who arrived in Louisiana in 1779; A. Casselli settled in San Francisco, California, in 1850; Alessandro Casagrande, aged 52, who arrived at Ellis Island from Monterado, Italy, in 1909.


Contemporary Notables of the name Casabianca (post 1700) +

  • Raphaël de Casabianca, French Divisional General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1789 to 1815 1
  • Joseph Marie de Casabianca, French Divisional General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1789 to 1815 2


  1. Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789-1815. (Retrieved 2015, February 11) Raphaël Casabianca. Retrieved from http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_frenchgenerals.html
  2. Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789-1815. (Retrieved 2015, February 11) Joseph Casabianca. Retrieved from http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_frenchgenerals.html


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