Ursinas, Orsini
Orsini surname
Orsini is a surname, and may refer to:
Orsini family, Italian noble family,
Alessandro Orsini (sociologist),
Alessandro Orsini (cardinal)...,
Angel Orsini
Clarice Orsini,
Felice Orsini (1819–1858), Italian revolutionary,
Fulvio Orsini,
Giordano Orsini (died 1438), 15th century Italian Cardinal.
Giordano Orsini (died 1173), Cardinal Priest of Santa Susanna from 1145 to 1173.
Giorgio Orsini
Latino Orsini (1411 - 1477), a Cardinal,
Latino Orsini (diplomat) (c. 1530 - 1580), military architect and diplomat,
Latino Malabranca Orsini,
Marina Orsini (b. 1967), Canadian actress,
Matteo Orsini,
Napoleone Orsini, condottiero,
Paolo Giordano Orsini,
Rinaldo Orsini,
Valentino Orsini,
Virginio Orsini,
Sofia Orsini,
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Orsini family
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The Orsini family was one of the most celebrated princely families in medieval Italy and renaissance Rome. Members of the Orsini include popes Celestine III (1191–1198), Nicholas III (1277–1280), and Benedict XIII (1724–1730), numerous condottieri and other significant political and religious figures.
Origins
According to their family legend, the Orsini are descended from the Julio-Claudian family of ancient Rome.
The Julio-Claudian dynasty normally refers to the first five Roman Emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula (also known as: Gaius), Claudius, and Nero,[1] or the family to which they belonged; they ruled the Roman Empire from its formation, in the second half of the first century ( 44/31/27 ) BC, until AD 68, when the last of the line, Nero, committed suicide.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio-Claudian
This is fanciful, as is the alleged connection to the German families of Anhalt, Baden and Bohemian Rosenberg sporting the same name. The Orsini also carried on a political feud with the Colonna family until by Papal Bull it was stopped in 1511; in 1571 the Chiefs of both families married the nieces of Pope Sixtus V.
The Orsini were related to the Boboni family existing in Rome in the 11th century.
The first members always used the surname of Boboni-Orsini.
The first known family member is one Bobone, in the early 11th century, father of Pietro, in turn father of Giacinto dei Boboni (1110–1198), who in 1191 became pope as Celestine III. One of the first great nepotist popes, he made two of his nephews cardinals and allowed his cousin Giovanni Gaetano (Giangaetano, died 1232) to buy the fiefs of Vicovaro, Licenza, Roccagiovine and Nettuno, which formed the nucleus of the future territorial power of the family. The Boboni surname was lost with his children, who were called de domo filiorum Ursi. Two of them, Napoleone and Matteo Rosso the Great (1178–1246) considerably increased the prestige of the family. The former was the founder of the first southern line, which disappeared with Camillo Pardo in 1553. He obtained the city of Manoppello, later a countship, and was gonfaloniere of the Papal. Matteo Rosso, called the Great, was the effective lord of Rome from 1241, when he defeated the Imperial troops, to 1243, holding the title of Senator. Two of his sons and Napoleone were also Senators.
Matteo ousted the traditional rivals, the Colonna, from Rome and extended the Orsini territories southwards up to Avellino and northwards to Pitigliano.
During his life the family entered firmly in the Guelph party. He had some ten sons, which divided the fiefs after his deaths: Gentile (died 1246) originated the Pitigliano line and the second southern line, Rinaldo that of Monterotondo, Napoleone (died 1267) that of Bracciano and another Matteo Rosso that of Montegiordano, from the name of the district in Rome housing the family's fortress. The most distinguished of his sons was however Giovanni Gaetano (died 1280): elected pope as Nicholas III, he named the nephew Bertoldo (died 1289) as count of Romagna and had two nephews and a brother created cardinals.
Ursinai (lat. ursus = bear).
The history of the Samogitian coat of arms is not yet well-researched, so neither the time nor circumstances of its origin are known. It is usually asserted that as early as the 14th c. the seal of a bear on all fours found in official documents of Grand Duke Vytautas is the Samogitian coat... of arms. It is also clear that in the second half of the 16th c. the Samogitian flag depicted a black bear. And this bear apparently originated before it was mentioned in any of the sources we can access now.
From the 16th century on the Samogitian coat of arms is represented as a black bear with a white collar, standing on his hind legs against a red background. Later, this picture becomes officially associated with Samogitia.
The first record of the Samogitian bear among the official seals of the Grand Duchy dates to 1669.
This was during the rule of Mykolas Kaributas Visnioveckis.
The seal remained in use until the third partition of Poland-Lithuania in 1795.
The origin of the Samogitian coat of arms is possibly related to the legendary theory of the Roman origin of Lithuanians.
According to this story one of the Roman tribes that settled in Lithuania was named Ursinai (lat. ursus = bear).
If this is true, then it is not clear if the Roman origin of Lithuanians is supported by the Samogitian use of the bear or if the Samogitians cleverly used the bear to develop the legend.
Literature : data taken from : http://daugenis.mch.mii.lt/Samogitia/ISTORIJA/herbas.en.htm
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