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Porpora
Coat of arms of family Porpora Nobles: France (Bretagne)
Nobility: Famille Noble - Chevaliers - Seigneurs
Language of the text: Français

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PORPORA | PURPURA

Porpora is typical of Naples, of Scafati in Salerno, Pompeii in Naples and Capua in the Casertano, Purpura is typically Sicilian Palermitano, Palermo, Carini, Montelepre, Terrasini and Bagheria, could derive, directly or through a form of Italianization, in matronymic form, from the medieval Latin name Purpura of which we have an example in a Cartula Venditionis of 1144 in Pavia: ".. Year AB Incarnacione Domini our Iesu Christi thousandth hundredth Quarter Quadragesimo Anno, Septimo kalendas februarii, Indicione Septima. Constat nos Bonumiohannem, filium quondam Donumdei de Valli, et Purpuram iugalis, filia quondam Niger Bonum Marro, here professed Sumus both ex Nacione Nostra lege live Longobardorum ipso namque Iugale et Mundoaldo meo mihi consentçiente.. ", but it is also possible to have a Deriving from a nickname originated from the fact that the founder of the craft produced Porpora the tint so valuable both in Latin and medieval times.

Bibliographic source "L'origine dei cognomi Italianim storia ed etimologia" di E. Rossoni disponibile online su: https://archive.org/


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