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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Patrizi - Ramo francese detto Gondy: Marchesi e Duchi
Nobles in:Italia - Francia - Spagna (Toscana)
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Variations Last name: Gondy
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
The ancient historians and genalogists who wrote about the Gondi, willingly picked up the tradition that made them descend from the Philippians placed by Dante among the oldest inhabitants of Florence; more precisely, by that arm Filippi armed knight by Charlemagne in 786. But it is a tradition that does not rely on any document; and therefore it seems preferable to consider as their progenitor that Orlando di Bilicozzo, who sat in the council of the Municipality in 1197, if the progenitor is to be understood as one who inaugurated a fortune. Forte, Orlando's son was among the Elders in 1204, and Gondo di Ricovero, his grandson from whom the Gondi family took their surname, marked with other citizens, in 1251, a treaty of alliance between the Municipality of Florence and the Republic of Genoa. The Gondi had to leave Florence around 1256 as followers of the Ghibelline party. They ...
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BlazonGondi
Variations Last name: Gondy
1. Coat of arms of family: Gondi
Language of the text: Italiano
D'oro a due mazze d'arme di ferro, legate di rosso, passate in croce di S. Andrea. Cimiero: Un braccio armato di una mazza ferrata.
Blasone della famiglia Gondi in Firenze, Santa Maria Novella, Lion bianco eFirenze, Santa Croce, Bue; fonte: "Raccolta Ceramelli Papiani" custodita presso l'archivio di stato di Firenze fasc.2433. Note: Il ramo francese della famiglia (quello più nobile), derivato da Antonio Gondi, trasferitosi a Lione per affari commerciali agli inizi del XVI secolo, reca identico stemma (fam. Gondy, duchi di Retz, marchesi di Belle-Isle).
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