Family name VERLATO is certainly connected to VILLAVERLA, a city in Vicenza district.

Historicals of Vicenza say that Emperor Henry IInd (Henry IInd the “saint” son of Henry IInd “the wrangler” son of Henry Ist duke of Bavaria, son of Henry Ist of Saxony “the Fowler”. He’s the last member of the Saxony dynasty) came to Italy from Germany on April 1004 to assert his authority on insubordinated feudals and to prepair himself to his imperial coronation. When he returned to Germany, after his coronation, he left some of the knights of the Teutonic order of S. Mary who had followed him in Italy, and made them feudals of big territories as a reward for their brave actions. Among them Captain Giovanni Verla, native of the city of Werla (Werlaburgdorf). He was given territories at Zanè, Thiene and Roveredum (Roveredo) and he fixed his home at this last village who started to be called Villa of Verla in documents of the next decades and lately even Villaverla.

Giovanni Verla and his brother Negro Verla started the aristocratic and ancient Verlata family in the town of Vicenza. Silvestro Castellini writes in his “History of Vicenza” (1783): still existing family, who has many brave men in the army, also ornated by other emperors of big privileges. To the Verlato family was given a coat of arms reproduced on the Revese Code (ms 1662 XVIII cen.) conserved at the manuscript room of the Bertoliana Library of Vicenza and showing six cherries.

This first historical information has made me want to find out a chronological relation between antique and modern Verlato families.