 In 1256 Manfredi Lancia was a royal castellan and straticoto of Messina to be identified perhaps with the same captain who was the executioner of Malta and Gozo.The first to possess the fief of Trabia is BlascoLanza (Catania 1466 - Palermo 1535) of the Barons of Longi (his grandfather Blasco was the 7th Baron of Longi), famous jurist, judge of the Great Court of the Kingdom in 1507 (charge conferred by King Ferdinand II of Aragon "the Catholic" and later by the emperor Charles V), deputy of the Kingdom in 1508, vicar general in Sicily in 1514 and other positions still.Thanks to the marriage with Leonardo's daughter Bartolomeo, protonotary and president of the Kingdom of Sicily, he obtained the territory of Trabia.