Franciosa is typical of southern Lazio, Campania, Puglia and Basilicata, Franciosi has an important Emilian core with stocks also present in Tuscany and Lazio, Francioso seems characteristic of the Salento peninsula, Frangiosa, very rare, typically from Campania, is from Benevento, Frangioso, practically unique, it is Neapolitan, all derive from the francius ethnic indicator for French or from its modifications; the use of this ethnic identifier is reported for example in 1300 by Dino Compagni in the "Chronicle of the things needed in his own time", where it reads: "They ordered and procured the black Guelphs, whom Messer Carlo of Valos, who was in the Court , came to Florence: and made the gift, in his pay and for his knights, of florins LXXm; and condussollo in Siena.And when he was there, he sent anbasciadori to Florence, Messer Guiglielmo francioso, cherico, disleale and bad man, albeit in appearance seemed good and benign, and a Provençal knight who was the opposite, with letters from their lord. "
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