 It consisted of 100 'nobilissimi cavalieri' (most nobile knights) who, to join, had to show a record of an unbroken family lineage of belonging to the nobility for at least 200 years.This places the date of origin of the Messina branch to about 1390.In later years, a Gianni Cariddi was mentioned as being a noble in Malvasia (Greece) in 1552 and his sons were nobles after him.