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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili
Nobles in:Italia
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Variations Last name: Chignolo
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
Ancient and very noble family of the Bergamasco, known as Chignoli or Chignolo, from the name of the fiefdom owned, of clear and ancestral virtue, which spread over the centuries in various regions of Italy and Europe. According to some heraldic reconstructions, the family would have the progenitor in common with the Marchi family. Such a Marcius, a Ligurian, in fact, would have given birth to various prosapias, through his own progeny, including the Marchi and the Chignoli. In any case, the Chignoli family, in the unfolding of decades, has always managed to produce a series of men who have made its name famous, in public employment, in the liberal and ecclesiastical professions and in military service. Among these, without detracting from the value of the omitted, count: Niccolò, landowner in the Bergamo area, flourishing in 1525; Alessandro Maria, doctor of both law, flourishing in 1538; Gio. Batta, councilor in ...
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BlazonChignoli
Variations Last name: Chignolo
1. Coat of arms of family: Chignoli
Language of the text: Italiano
D'oro, al grifo passante di nero con la testa rivoltata.
Chignolo o Chignoli, originari di Chignolo nel Bergamasco.
Citato in "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.III, pag. 209, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888.
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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