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Boncristiani has a small stock in Fucecchio in Florence and an even smaller one in Rome, Buoncristiani has a stock in Pisa in Castelfranco di Sotto and Pisa, one in Foligno in Perugia and one in Rome, Boncristiano would appear to be from San Severo in Foggia, Buoncristiano in addition to the lineage in the Foggia area of San Severo and San Nicandro Garganico, it also has one in Potenza, all of which should derive from the medieval name Boncristiano, but it is also possible that in some cases it may be a matter of auspicious surnames attributed by confessional institutes to foundlings. additions and coats of arms provided by Giovanni Boncristiani - Pisa The surname relative to the Boncristiani family is almost certainly of Tuscan origin, this is also evident from the typical truncation of Tuscan speech that translates a more correct buoncristiani into the one indicated above. Traces of this surname can be found in the Pisa of the thirteenth century relative to the Elder Leopardus Bonaccorsi Boncristiani, a councilor of the Pisan government in 1256. In Florence Vannes Boncristiani was present between 1306 and 1313 as indicated in a text of the Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum XIII and XIV century. Another well-known personality is Andrea Boncristiani (1343), a Pisan painter at the Savoy court, engaged to Maria who belonged to the prestigious Savoia family. In 1400 ca. the Boncristiani are bankers in Certaldo Fiorentino who subsequently moved to Verona for political reasons (Guelphs-Ghibellines). Notaries in Florence are Boncristiani Virgilio (1571 - 1577) of Bastiano da Santa Croce and Boncristiani Giovanni Battista di Raffaello (1569 - 1606). More recently we can find traces of the lineage in South America (Brazil) probably due to the migrations of the late nineteenth century, in France and in the United States. The current Archbishop of Siena is Monsignor Antonio Boncristiani. There are two coats of arms of this family, the first similar to the city of Pisa the other to the Florentine lineage. The weapon of the first, as noted by the text Dizionario Storico Blasonico of the Noble Families and Notables of the Italian heraldist Giovan Battista di Crollalanza states: d'azzurro, to the silver band accompanied by a trifoliate cross of the same at the tip. The trifoliate cross is still present today in the emblem of the city of Pisa. The other coat of arms, the one referring to the Florentine lineage, recites in Blau 3 liegende silberne Halbmonde (detected by a German translation of a Florentine text, probably the famous Florentine Stemmario) is light blue with three half-moons placed in a silver-colored triangle. In the town of Cingoli (Marche) in via filati there is the Boncristiani palace.
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