The Heraldic Traces are dossiers made by an A.I. useful as a starting point for researchers and passionate heraldists and confirm that there is information to work on and it is possible to order a heraldic document.
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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Baroni
Nobles in:Italia
The country or region of the dossier mainly refers to the places where the family was ascribed to the nobility and may be different from those of residence
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Rigido
Italiano
Esistette in Sicilia una famiglia Nigito, chiamata anche Nigido, che non sappiamo se abbia alcuna relazione con la Nigido, decorata del titolo di barone di Margarito. Della prima notiamo un Matteo, che tenne la carica di capitano di giustizia in Caltagirone nel 1406-7; un Giacomo, da Mineo, che con privilegio del 20 agosto 1579, ottenne il titolo di regio cavaliere; titolo che ottenne, con privilegio del 22 dicembre 1579, anche un Niccolò Antonio; un Placido, dottore in teologia, gesuita, fratello di Nicolò predetto, autore di molte opere di argomento religioso, molto lodato dal Mongitore che nella sua "Biblioteca Sicula" volume 2° pag. 186, scrive: "Placidus Nigido, menensis, scrae theologiae doctor, in Societate Jesu omnium disciplinarum ornamento insignitus, inde egressus saecularis sacerdotis habitu vixit. Vir san doctissimus et eruditione clarus. In sacrarum literaurm Sanctorumque Patrum lectione versatissimus, probitate caterisque virtutibus ornatus emicuit. Panormi diu vixit, ac pietatem excoluit; solitudinis amantissimus aliquando ...
When you buy a heraldic document a new accurate analysis of the heraldic research will be performed by an expert heraldist and the document will be written in Italian or English.
The coat of arms will be checked and, if necessary, redesigned in strict compliance with the heraldic rules by our experts.
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The Heraldic Traces are dossiers made by an A.I. useful as a starting point for researchers and passionate heraldists and confirm that there is information to work on and it is possible to order a heraldic document.
Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families
