Massimo (noble family)
The Massimo family is an ancient Roman noble family that continues to this day.
history
The Roman family Massimo is one of the oldest noble families in the city of Rome , whose ancestry is traced back to Massimo, who lived in Rome around 950. A descent from the ancient Roman senator Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (* around 275 BC; † 203 BC), however, can be considered a legend , even if this - like Prince Massimo insured the Emperor Napoleon I at his request - "Has persisted in the family for 2000 years". The occasional assignment of the two canonized Popes Anastasius I and Paschal Ito the sex of the Massimo might be mythical in nature. In any case, the sure line of tribe begins with Leone Massimo, died on April 23, 1012, whose epitaph is in the church of Santi Bonifacio e Alessio on the Aventine .
Luca Massimo became Barone di Pisterzo in 1544 and Fabrizio Massimo in 1574 Signore di Arsoli (Province of Rome), both loan titles of the papal nobility . For Marchese di Roccasecca Fabrizio Camillo Massimo was raised on March 30, 1686th In 1746 the Massimo received the title of patrician of Rome . The family was appointed Roman patricians (unrestricted) and on January 4, 1746 as registered Roman patricians (Patrizio Romano coscritto) as a hereditary title in Primogenitur . While the younger line of Duchi by Rignano and Calcata died out in 1907, the older line is still in bloom. A branch of the older line became Principe di Roviano and Duca di Anticoli Corrado in 1872 . The Castello Massimo in Arsoli is still owned by the family today.
Camillo Massimo, Marchese di Roccasecca (1770–1840), married Christina von Sachsen (a daughter of Franz Xavier von Sachsen ) in 1796 and was in 1826 by Pope Leo XII. awarded the title Principe di Arsoli (in Primogenitur ). Their son Camillo (1803–1873) married Princess Maria Gabriela of Savoy-Carignan; her son Camillo (1836–1921) was 3rd Principe di Arsoli, while a younger son from a second marriage, Filippo (1843–1915) inherited the title of this family, Principe di Prossedi , from the Lancellotti, who died in 1865 , and took the name Massimo Lancellotti ; the descendants of this line are represented today by Principe Don Filippo Massimo Lancellotti, 3rd Principe di Prossedi (* 1949). Camillo's son from his marriage to Princess Francesca Lucchesi Palli , Camillo Francesco (1865–1943), 4th Prince di Arsoli, married Princess Eleonora Brancaccio. Her older son Leone Massimo, 5th Prince di Arsoli (1896–1979), married Princess Maria-Adelaide of Savoy-Genoa in 1935, whose son was Filippo Massimo, 6th Prince di Arsoli (1938–2008); his son Don Fabrizio Massimo, 7th Principe di Arsoli (* 1963), inherited the titles Principe di Roviano and Principe di Triggiano from the expired Prince Brancaccio in 1968 . Leone's younger brother Vittorio Emanuele (* 1911) held the title Principe di Roccasecca dei Volsci .
The Massimo belong, next to the Borghese and their side line Aldobrandini and the families Barberini , Caetani , Chigi , Colonna , Doria Pamphilj , Lante della Rovere, Odescalchi , Orsini , Pallavicini , Riario Sforza , Ruspoli and Torlonia to the most famous royal houses of the urban Roman high nobility .
coat of arms
Split, on the right of blue and silver covered 5 times by a golden diagonal bar, on the left in silver a blue cross covered with nine silver labels and angled by two upright gold-crowned red lions at the gap; on the helmet with blue and silver blankets on the right and red and silver blankets on the left a growing golden lion; Princely hat and prince coat.
Motto
Cunctando restituit (Latin: roughly: "through hesitation he restored [the situation]"). This motto should support the legend cherished in the family, the Massimo came from Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator , that Roman dictator from the patrician gens Fabia , who after the devastating defeat at Cannae in 216 BC. BC wore down Hannibal's victorious army through persistent tactics that refused any battle until Rome recovered. This ancestry legend is of course absurd, because the patrician Fabians with the surname Maximus had already died out in the 1st century AD.
Well-known namesake
- Pietro Massimo , († 1544), curator of Rome
- Camillo Massimo (1620–1677), cardinal, art patron
- Massimiliano Camillo Massimo (1770–1840), 1st Prince of Arsoli, papal chief postmaster, director of the papal archives
- Camillo Vittorio Emanuele Massimo (1803–1873), 2nd Prince of Arsoli, papal chief postmaster
- Francesco Saverio Massimo (1806–1848), cardinal deacon
- Leone Massimo (1896–1979), 5th Prince of Arsoli, last Vatican postmaster
- Mario Massimo (1808–1873), 2nd Duke of Rignano, papal minister, astronomer
- Paolo Enrico Massimo Lancellotti (1911–2004), diplomat and Italian ambassador, governor-general of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem
- Francesco Saverio Massimo Lancellotti (1913–2000), Senator of the Republic of Italy
literature
- Pompeo Litta: Famiglie Celebri Italiane, Massimo di Roma. Milan, 1839
- Libro d'Oro , 1910-1990 / 94
Web links
- Camillo Massimo, 1st Principe di Arsoli Descendants of Camillo Massimo, 1st Principe di Arsoli, on Geneall.net (Italian), accessed on February 2, 2017.
- Massimo Lancellotti , trunk line. The Heirs of Europe, accessed February 2, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume Fü II, CA Starke-Verlag, Glücksburg, 1953, p. 374.
- ^ A b Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume Fü VI, Starke, Limburg, 1961, p. 482.
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon , Volume VIII, Starke, 1997, p. 309.
- ↑ a b Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Starke, 1997, p. 310.
- ↑ Family table of Massimo Lancellotti