Famiglia originaria di Napoli trasferitasi a Taranto con un Urbano, consigliere della regina Giovanna II, e ritornata a Napoli nella seconda metà del secolo XVI. Placido, capitano negli eserciti del re di Spagna, distintosi nelle guerre contro i Portoghesi, ottenne in data 18 sett. 1585 riconosc. di nobiltà. Giovan Andrea fu comandante delle armi delle due provincie d’Otranto e Bari. Con real diploma del 1788 Vincenzo fu decorato dal re Ferdinando IV del titolo di marchese, infisso sul feudo di Casolla Valenzano che già possedeva. Rappresenta questa famiglia il marchese Nicola, spos. alla nob. Maria de Angelis Effrem di Torre Ruggiero. Figli: Vicenzo, n. 1° ottobre 1891, spos. a Maria Carmen Lombardi, ed Amalia, n. 20 agosto 1894. Altro ramo. Le prime memorie di questa casa risalgono al 1560. Si divise in due rami: del primo fu capo-stipite Alessandro, e Mario del secondo. Giuseppe regio governatore di Capua nel 1775.. Riguardo a questo cognome abbiamo ritrovato ulteriori informazioni storiche in altri archivi. Purtroppo in lingua originale Inglese. : This Italian Last Name of CIMINO was an occupational name for one who grew cumin or caraway, a plant of the carrot family. It was also locational meaning ‘the dweller where cumin and caraway grew’ from residence nearby. The name is also spelt CIMON and CIMMINI. Many of the modern family names throughout Europe reflect the profession or occupation of their forbears in the Middle Ages and derive from the position held by their ancestors in the village, noble household or religious community in which they lived and worked. The addition of their profession to their birth name made it easier to identify individual tradesmen and craftsmen. As generations passed and families moved around, so the original identifying names developed into the corrupted but simpler versions that we recognise today. In the Middle Ages heraldry came into use as a practical matter. It originated in the devices used to distinguish the armoured warriors in tournament and war, and was also placed on seals as marks of identity. As far as records show, true heraldry started in the middle of the 12th century, and appeared almost simultaneously in several states of Western Europe. Over the centuries, most people in Europe have accepted their Last Name as a fact of life, as irrevocable as an act of God. However much the individual may have liked or disliked the Last Name, they were stuck with it, and people infrequently modified them by personal choice. A more common form of variation was in fact involuntary, when an official change was made, in other words, a clerical error. A noble member of the name was CIMON (died 499 BC) Athenian soldier and statesman, the son of Miltiades, the conqueror at Marathon. He fought at the battle of Salamis (450. BC) and by 476, he was in supreme command of the Athenian forces in the patriotic struggle against the Persians, and captured Eion, a town on the river Strymon. The origins of Italian last names are not clear, and much work remains to be done on medieval Italian records. It seems that stable bynames, in some cases hereditary, were in use in the Venetian Republic by the end of the 10th century. The typical Italian Last Name endings are ‘i’ and ‘o’, the former being characteristic of northern Italy. The singular form ‘o’ is more typical of southern Italy….
Noble title: Marchesi – Nobili
Coat of arms: D’azzurro all’albero di cimino sostenuto da due leoni controrampanti, il tutto al naturale…