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Agazzano belonged to the Pagus Lurate , mentioned in the Tabula
alimentary Trajan of the second century AD The discovery of burials and
other objects in the hamlet of Sarturano, confirm the Roman presence ,
but there are no documented sources relating to the Agazzano area in
Roman times.
In December 218 BC , the Battle of the Trebia , documented by the Roman
historian Polybius , also interested in the municipality of Agazzano:
the ' army of Hannibal , camped near Tavernago, managed to block the
Roman infantry nell'alveo swampy Luretta stream; the numidian cavalry,
supported by archers, slaughtered Roman soldiers, of which only a third
managed to find a way out on the other side of the river Trebbia .
In 1164 Federico Barbarossa destroyed many castles in the area of Agazzano
and Piozzano. In the XIII century the town was sacked by the imperial
vicar of Frederick II of Swabia.
Agazzano then became the capital of the fief of the Scotti family(1)
and, towards the middle of the twelfth century, Alberto Scoto started
the construction of the castle. The Scotti remained in Agazzano until
1412 when Filippo Maria Visconti dispossessed them, delivering Agazzano
to the Arcelli family who had accused the Scotti of rebellion.
Three years later the Scotti managed to prove their innocence, even if
the castle returned to them only in 1431 when it was reacquired by
Alberto Scotti.
Later the fief of the Scotti family was repeatedly confirmed by the
Farnese lords of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza.
In the middle of the eighteenth century the castle passed to the
Anguissola family thanks to the marriage between Count Giovanni and
Margherita Scotti.
Note:
1. Poor and fragmentary are the news we have about
the origins of the family documented in Italy in the eleventh century
but certainly earlier if we have to give faith to the tradition that
wants it descended from a certain William, a Scottish leader who arrived
in Italy in the year 774 following the invasion francs. It is said that
the same, arrived near Piacenza, fell ill and could no longer join his
group, took his wife giving rise to a descent that, with alternating
fortunes, still lasts.
The Italian stock, named with the name of Scoto, will take over the
years the plural form of Scotti, the name by which the family is known
today.
From the same William who probably already had his own family in his
native country, originate the Douglasscozzesi, a "clan" among the best
known of the entire nation. Almost to relate to a tradition and ennoble
the lineage, Marc'Antonio Scotti, around the middle of the seventeenth
century writes to the Scottish Douglas referring to ancient chronicles
as well as a recent publication that unites the Italian Scots with
Scottish Douglas. It is also significant that in the I404 the emperor
Sigismondo, grant to the Scotti di Vigoleno, the attribute of Douglas
almost to want to remove them the generality of an uncertain origin and
to insert them of authority in a prestigious "clan" to which besides,
they aspired to belong.
See also:
• Italian members of the
Douglas family
• Castello
Agazzano
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