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The territory of the City of Sarmato was derived from the
aggregation of the Scottish feud, the fellowships of Veratto,
Pontetidone and Agazzino, inhabited, then very populous.
The
documented history dates back to 1216 when the militia of Piacenza and
Milan gathered under its walls, waiting to make war on the pavement
enemies and in 1270 the fortress, then defended by the Pallastrelli
family, was attacked and seriously damaged by the militias of the Lord
of Bardi , Count Ubertino Landi, one of the leaders of the imperial
faction.
The Pallastrelli di Sarmato, whose story is related to
the tradition of S.Rocco and S.Gottardo, had to sell in 1363 and moved
to Portugal where they got honors and privileges and a descendant of
Gottardo Felipa Perestrello (actually Pallastrelli) married l Explorer
Cristoforo Colombo, discoverer of the Americas.
The fortress and
the rich feud of Sarmato then passed to the rich merchant Bartolomeo
Seccamelica, which was invested in 1376 by Galeazzo Visconti, then Lord
of Milan. To defend the fort of Sarmato Seccamelica had to undergo in
his manor a long siege of the Guelas faction Who captured him and
imprisoned him. His wife and all his sons were killed except one female,
Margherita.
Though married, despite belonging to a hostile
family of imperial power, the noble Giacomo Scotti, nephew of Alberto
Scotti "The Rich" Lord of Piacenza, bringing to this family the fief and
lands of Sarmato. Scotti's rule, and in particular Count Alberto Scotti,
was undermined in the first half of the 1900s at the Arcelli Fontana,
Counts of Val Tidone, and by the Milan Counts Verme, and with Luigi Dal
Verme held Castel San Giovanni .
Finally, from the second half
of the 14th century, the fief returned to the ownership of the Scotti-Douglas
accounts until 1819 when, with the death of the last heir - Countess
Luigi Scotti-Douglas da Sarmato - passed for female inheritance to the
accounts Zanardi Landi of Veano who still preserve it, and began a
gradual recovery and enhancement path.
See also:
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Douglas Scotti origins
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