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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili
Nobles in:Italia (Toscana)
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Variations Last name: Girolami
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
Another family distinguished from the homonymous one that flourished until 1260, finding Giliotti di Baliotto Girolami among the Guelph ranks at the battle of Arbia. He gave the Republic four gonfaloniers and thirteen priors between 1296 and 1529. It was divided in the fourteenth century into two branches, the first of which, to which Zanobi di Zanoli famous legist and senator belonged, became extinct in 1664. From the second branch was Francesco ambassador to Julius II in 1502. Raphael commissioner in Poggibonsi; John Archbishop created Paul III; other Raffaello Archbishop of Damiata in 1728 and Cardinal in 1743. Today there is no news of this family. It was the custom of the oldest families, who after the fall of the Roman Empire, in that flood of the Barbarians, having their surnames, as well as their studies, and other beautiful things lost and left only with simple names, draw their surnames ...
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BlazonGirolami Del Vescovo
Variations Last name: Girolami
1. Coat of arms of family: Girolami
Language of the text: Italiano
D'argento, alla croce di sant'Andrea di nero, accompagnata nel capo da una mitria del campo.
Blasone della famiglia Girolami o «Girolami del Vescovo» in Firenze, Santa Croce, Carro; fonte: "Raccolta Ceramelli Papiani" custodita presso l'archivio di stato di Firenze fasc.2404. Note: Nel Sepoltuario Rosselli lo stemma si trova partito con l'arma della famiglia Covoni (Badia fiorentina, Zanobi Girolami e Cassandra Covoni, sec.XVI). La mitria allude alla presunta appartenenza alla famiglia di san Zanobi, vescovo fiorentino del IV secolo. Nelle Filze di giustificazioni per l'ammissione al patriziato fiorentino di Pietro Zanobi Girolami, 1751, sotto la mitria si trova una croce di Santo Stefano: il richiedente era infatti balì dell'Ordine di Santo Stefano. Ultimo della famiglia, egli lasciò eredi i nipoti, figli di Pier Francesco Covoni.
Blasone della famiglia Girolami in Firenze, Santa Croce, Carro; fonte: "Raccolta Ceramelli Papiani" custodita presso l'archivio di stato di Firenze fasc.2404.
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