The Antiquity Line:
Our family narrative begins on the Cimbrian Peninsula (modern-day Jutland, Denmark), where classical authors like Pliny the Elder and Tacitus documented our ancestral tribe. Driven by devastating climate events and flooding around 120 BC, the Cimbri migrated south through Central Europe, clashing with the expanding Roman Republic.
The Battle of Vercellae (101 BC):
Following a catastrophic defeat in the Po Valley by Roman General Gaius Marius in 101 BC, historical texts from the 1st-century BC historian Livy (Periochae, Book 103) state that surviving clusters of Cimbrian warriors retreated into the deep, inaccessible sanctuary of the Eastern Alps. It was here, in the isolated folds of the Vicenza foothills, that our ancestors survived, establishing an independent identity that outlasted the fall of Rome itself.