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Colleoni

Noble family in medieval Bergamo

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The House of Colleoni was a Guelf-allied noble family in medieval Bergamo. Their Ghibelline opponents were the Suardi family, of which the Colleoni themselves were a branch.

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The family's coat of arms was two pairs of white testicles on a red field, above one red pair on a white field.

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