Ceresara (family)

According to some historians, the family would have transplanted into the mantova coming from Milan, while others would like to come to Italy following Emperor Federico I Barbarossa, who would have assigned them the fief of Ceresara, now common in province of Mantua.

Capostipite would have been Lanfranco, lived in the 12th century. His children would later split the family into two branches: that of Ceresara and that of the Acelli. In the communal period, they were members of the Council of Mantua and later occupied important positions during the Gonzaga lordship.

• Vivaldo Ceresara (XIV century), at the service of Cangrande II della Scala
• Ruffino Ceresara (XV century), feudal lord of the lands of Guidizzolo on behalf of Gianfrancesco Gonzaga
• Paride by Ceresara (1466-1532), humanist and astrologer^[1]
• Dorotea (XV century), married the conductor Roberto Guidi of Bagno, lost in the Battle of Taro of 1495^[2]
• Tricasio Giovanni Ceresara (?-1626), theologian^[3]
• Patrizio Tricasio Ceresara (XVI century), mathematician and astronomer
• Philip Ceresara (XVI century), was invested in 1611 of the fief Maranzana by the Duke of Mantua Vincenzo I Gonzaga with a comitale title and in 1656 by Duke Charles II of Gonzaga-Nevers.^[4]

• Giovan Battista di Crollalanza, Blasonic historical dictionary of Italian noble or notable families extinct and flourishing, Bologna, 1886, Vol.1, ISBN not existing.
• Franco Mondadori, The Rizzini family, from the 17th to the 20th century, Guidizzolo, 2002. Archived on September 10, 2016 at the Wayback Machine.

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