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The de Piro family is a Maltese noble family, of Italian origins, which settled in Malta with the Order of St John in 1530.

History

The family hails originally from Como where the ruins of the Castel Grumello de Piro, owned by Corrado de Piro in the fourteenth century, can be seen. Cosimo de Piro left Rhodes in the general exodus of the Knights of St John and settled in Malta following its granting to the Order by Emperor Charles V

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