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Welcome to the Cassar Family Web Site |
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Tracing the origin of a Maltese family name is a
fascinating journey through the history of this island state. We must keep in mind that Malta was ruled successively
by the Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, and Arabs:
with the Norman conquest of Malta in July 1090, the island became part of the
kingdom of Sicily. While subject to this kingdom (1090-1530), Malta had
many rulers, the Normans (House of Hauteville), the Germans (House of
Hohenstaufen), French (House of Anjou), Spanish (House of Aragon), and
Austrians (House of Hapsburg). From 1530 to 1798 Malta, still being nominally
under the Kingdom of Sicily, it was ruled by the Order of St. John of
Jerusalem. From 1798 to 1800 it was under French Republic, and from 1800 to
1964 it was part of the British Empire. The Cassar family is of Italian and French lineage. The
origin of this surname has to be found in the Maltese family of Italian
origin named Cestaferrata-Castelletti, that can be traced in the island to
1749, with the first Marquis Gilberto. In 1822 the fourth Marquis Lorenzo
Antonio, married Marria Ceresa Cassar-Desain, of French origin. At his death,
his son Filippo Giacomo, fith Marquis of Cestaferrata, assumed the name of
his mother and became the Marquis of Cassar-Desain. |
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