Massimo family

The Massimo family is an old Roman noble family, which continues to this day.

History

The city of Rome Gender Massimo is one of the oldest noble families of the city of Rome, whose ancestry is to Massimo, who lived around 950 in Rome, returned. The secure master series begins with Massimo Leone, died on 23 April 1012 whose epitaph is in the church of Santi Bonifacio e Alessio on the Aventine Hill ..

While the younger line of Duchi Rignano and Calcata 1907 extinguished, the elder branch of blooms still. Luca Massimo Barone di Pisterzo was 1544 and 1574 was Fabrizio Massimo Signore di Arsoli ( province of Rome). To the Marchese di Roccasecca was eventually Fabrizio charged Camillo Massimo on March 30, 1686. Finally, the family of Pope Leo XII was. 1826 entitled Principe di Arsoli ( primogeniture ) excellent. A branch of the elder line was built in 1872 and Duca di Principe di Roviano anti Corrado; another branch inherited from the extinct 1865 Lancellotti the title of this family Principe di Prossedi and took the name of Massimo Lancellotti.

Coat of arms

Split, right of blue and silver 5 times covered by a golden slant right bar, left in a silver with 9 silver labels occupied by two upright gold-crowned red lion bewinkeltes blue cross at the gap; on the helmet with the right blue - silver, red - silver covers on the left with a growing golden lion; Ducal crown prince and coat.

Motto

Cunctando restituit (Latin: something like, " restored by procrastination [ the situation ]"). This motto is the cherished legend in the family support, the Massimo Quintus Fabius Maximus came from Cunctator from, those Roman dictator of the patrician gens Fabia, who after the crushing defeat of Rome at Cannae in 216 BC by delaying and denying every battle Hannibal's tactics wore down victorious army, to Rome recovered. This lineage legend is of course absurd, because the patrician Fabius, surnamed Maximus were willing extinct in the first century after Christ.

Well-known bearers of the name

  • Pietro Massimo, († 1544), curator of Rome
  • Camillo Massimo, (1620-1677), Cardinal, patron of the arts
  • Camillo Massimiliano Massimo (1770-1840), Prince of Arsoli, päpstliocher postmaster, director of the papal archives
  • Camillo Massimo Vittorio Emanuele, (1803-1873), Prince of Arsoli, papal postmaster,
  • Francesco Saverio Massimo, (1806-1848), Cardinal - Deacon
  • Massimo Leone, (1896-1979), Prince of Arsoli, last Vatican postmaster,
  • Mario Massimo, (1808-1873), Count of Rignano, papal minister, astronomer
  • Paolo Enrico Massimo Lancellotti, (1911-2004), diplomat and Italian Ambassador, Governor General of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem
  • Francesco Saverio Massimo Lancellotti, (1913-2000), Senator of the Republic of Italy
Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne Rignano Flaminio
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