Colaianni used by Comneni and Paleologo from 11th-14th century
vjmIII:
There are a few important distinctions to make regarding the Colaianni families of Italy.
Firstly, it is Famiglia Colaianni di Bari that has the likeliest possible descent from some branch of the Comneni or Paleologo.
Bari, the principal city of Puglia, was very much interconnected to Byzantium in the 11th-15th centuries. Giovanni Il Buono (Colaianni, Calojanni, or Kalojanni, with various other similar transcriptions) spent time in Bari - and this was much documented.
More importantly, as I stated earlier in this thread, Vincenzo Massilla's chronicles of Bari's nobility names "Famiglia Colajanni/Colaianni" (di Bari) as one of the ten noble families of "Greek" origin in Bari pre 1726. "Greche", however does not mean simply from "Greece", but in this case, from Constantinople.
This is undisputedly confirmed in Beatillo's definitive "Historia di Bari", 1636.
Beatillo confirms Vincezo Massilla’s documentation of the diaspora of the ten important noble families of the Byznatine Empire, from Constantinople to Bari. This is again confirmed in the scholarly source of Archivio Storico Italiano, volumes 3-4, Deputazione Toscana di storia Patria.
Now read carefully ...
"Il Beatillo annovera fra le famiglie venute da Costantinopoli a stabilirsi a Bari quelle dei Dottola, dei Gizzinosi, degli Effrem, degli Elia, dei Nai, dei Sergii, dei Turmarca, dei Caloianni, dei Seripandi, dei Carofili, degli Ametusa. cc. pag 14, E sarebbe facile cercarne anche nella altre citta"
Interestingly, the families included in Massilla’s chronicles as well as Beatillo’s are all, except for the Joannaci, the Protospada, the Protospatarii, and the Arcamonii. Furthermore, Beatillo’s transciption of family Colaianni as "Caloianni" indicates that the family most likely descends directly from the Byznatine Imperial family.
And finally, concerning your Famiglia Colaianni di Sicilia
Famiglia Colaianni di Bari was listed in three separate Rivista Araldica's from 1905-1923.
Interestingly, Bertini-Frassoni denotes Famiglia Colaianni di Sicilia as a ramo (branch) of Famiglia Colaianni di Bari.
Although I think it's safe to say that Famiglia Colaianni di Sicilia lost any claim to regency after Napoleone Colajanni - who was certainly disliked by most all royalists.
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