The Baseggio Coats of Arms

Currently we distinguish eight different Coats of Arms, three of them being variations of the Golden Bones design. This leaves us with the following six main designs:

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In addition we use a logo type coat of arms when it comes to illustrating activities related to the genealogical project baseggio.net (social media avatars, event invitations, etc.) Find the detailed information about our Internet Coat of Arms in the dedicated article.


Arma Triestina/Brasão Brasileiro (Brazilian Coat of Arms)

Gules, a bend chequy azure and or.

Sauro de Baseggio (BNID0079) provided the following information: "Stemma del ramo Triestino facente parte delle Tredici Casate. Conservato nell'atrio del Castello di S. Giusto [a Trieste]." (The source of this information is unknown.) 

Consequently the family originally carrying this coat of arms is extinct. 

Nowadays it is used by our Brazilian branches.



Blue and Silver Fleur-de-lis

Quarterly, with steps (?), first: Or, nine fleur-de-lis azure; second: Gules, nine fleur-de-lis argent; third: Gules, eight fleur-de-lis argent; fourth: Or, ten fleur-de-lis azure. 


Sauro de Baseggio (BNID0079) provided the following info about this design: "Stemma originale sino dal 660 e 910 coi Patriarchi di Aquileia e Grado Giovanni II. e Lorenzo dei Gigli." (Source unknown.)


Red Ribbon

Or, a bend gules.

This used to be the old Coat of Arms of the Baseggios from Venice, based on the information found in "Famiglie venete con le loro armi" (alfa.o.3.2/5), two 17th cent. manuscripts. (Provided by Biblioteca estense universitaria, Modena, Italy, http://bibliotecaestense.beniculturali.it.)

In 1204 AD this design was replaced by the Golden Bones Coat of Arms. (See below.)

Golden Bones

Azure, in chief the crown of the Latin Empire of Constantinople, in base three bones in pale or.

In 1204 AD the Venetian Baseggio Family was awarded a new coat of arms by the Latin Emperor Baldwin I of Constantinople (the former Count of Flanders). During the 4th Crusade Giovanni Basegio fought as captain of a galley and it seems he did it fairly well. During the coronation ceremony of Baldwin I of Constantinople, he was awarded a new coat of arms, carrying three golden bones and the Latin Emperor's crown.

This coat of arms replaced the former one in 1204 AD and is in use by Giovanni's descendants to the present day.

The following text is an excerpt of Paolo Rannusios book "Della Guerra di Costantinopoli" ("About the Constantinople War"); published by Domenico Nicolini, Venice, 1604AD.

The scan can be found at Google Books.

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"[The Latin Emperor Baldwin of Flanders] gave many imperial honours and military decorations to the Venetian noblemen. and in particular he awarded knighthood to the famous captain of a galley Giovanni Basegio for his virtue, and also allow him to carry the Imperial Crown on a blue shield, to show how much he felt in favour of the Venetians, sharing the symbol of his empire in this coat of arms, which was adopted by the Basegio Family, replacing the former."

The drawing was taken from the "Historia antica e moderna, sacra e profana della citta de Trieste" by Father Ireneo Della Croce, 1698. According to Della Croce this coat of arms was carried by the Baselli family in Gradisca. It is a variation of the Golden Bones coat of arms, three ravens and a crown were added.

Two Ravens

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Three Ravens

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Della Croce writes
"La continua traditione sin'a'giorni nostri sempre conservata ne' Basei, al presente addimandati Baselli di Gradisca, che oltre 150. anni gli Antenati loro abbandonata Trieste, si trasferissero à quella Fortezza, fara stabile, e veridico testimonio della loro antica Nobilta sin qui da me provata. Ne gli qui loro moderni Armeggi totalmente diversi dall'usato da'nostri Triestini, può apportare dubbierà d'essere diramata dalla Nobilissima Prosapia de'Basilj, overo Basei di Trieste; mentre la moltitudine di tanti differenti Armeggi, co'quali ciascuna dell'addotte Famiglie adorna il proprio Colonello, non induce divisione di sangue, perche tutte riconoscono la propria discendenza, & origine dalla Romana, mà solamente per pomposa mostra delle prerogative, che le resero degne di riguardevole ricognitione, & honore; che tanto additano i tre Corvi, e Corona aggiunti al Blasone de'Basegi Veneti, usato da quelli di Gradisca, loro concessi con Diploma speciale l'anno 1647. dal Serenissimo Prencipe Gio: Antonio d'Egenberg, e Duca di Cromau, in recognitione delli servitj, e benemerenze prestati da'lor Antenati ne'Campi di Marte, & incontaminata fedeltà verso l'Augustissi- ma Casa d'Austria, con prerogativa di Cavalier Nobile dell'Imperio: Ampliato ultimamente con forma, e fregi maggiori di reconoscimento più riguardevole. Qual prerogative ponderate nel Congresso dell'eccelsa Ducal Provincia del Cragno, coll'aggregatione di molto tempo alla Nobiltà del Contado di Gradisca, gli ascrissero anco li 9. Febraro del 1690. con tutti i loro Discendenti Maschi, e Femine alla Nobiltà di quella Provincia. Risplende hora nel Contado di Gradisca divisa in tre Rami, ove sempre in ogni tempo, fu feconda di Soggetti celebri in lettere, che gli promossero alle Cariche di Vicarj Pretorj, Fiscali, & altri Ufficj, e due abbraciata la Compagnia di Giesù, ornati di virtù, & esemplarità di vita, terminarono in essa il corso de loro giorni."

Naxos Roses

Per bend or and gules, two roses counterchanged

This version of the Bazeos Coat of Arms can be found in the Bazeos Tower, Naxos, Greece (www.bazeostower.gr), owned by Giorgos Marios Bazeos.

Modern day Greek Baseggios are most likely descendants of crusaders. That's why you'll find a "Casa Baseggio" on Santorini, for instance.


Naxos Stars

Per bend sinister or and gules, two stars of five points counterchanged

This version of the Bazeos Coat of Arms can also be found in the Bazeos Tower, Naxos.

The stars replace the roses, colours and design stay the same. The reason for that is unknown. It could be related to the fact that slight variations of the same Coat of Arms were used by different generations. Interestingly enough, the "sinister" layout (meaning the shield cut in half from top right to bottom left) can indicate bastardy.