Secondo il Mugnos nobile e chiara famiglia pisana a’ servigi dell’imperatore Federico II portata in Messina da un Ansaldo Crespi. Altri opina invece essere stata famiglia romana, passata in Pisa, poi in Napoli, in fine in Sicilia. L’Inveges a causa di quale lapide ne vuole un ramo anche a Palermo sin dal 1474. Un Antonio fu straticoto di Messina 1353; un Rinaldo da re Federico III in compenso de’ suoi servigi ottenne il feudo della foresta 1367, le tonnare di Termini e Trapani in feudo, non che quello di lalia 1369, e l’altro delle Saline di Calcarella 1340; un Tommaso per ragion di dote ebbe i feudi di Monterosso, Maliggi, incarano ed altri; un Federico per successione possedè nel 1416 la foresta di Taormina antico feudo stato donato da re Federico III al di lui padre Rinaldo Crispi; indi acquistò in Palermo il feudo del Falconeri; un Tommaso pretore di Palermo nel 1333; un Filippo arcivescovo di Messina 1392 riportato dal Pirri. Notiamo infine tra’ cavalieri gerosolimitani un frà Giovanni, un frà Marco commendatore 1457, ed un frà Nicolino 1461. Altro ramo. Oriunda del castello di Liburn in Savoja, e trapiantata in Ferrara da Giovanni-Maria Crispi, consigliere di Alfonso II nel secolo XVI. Orlando suo fratello ebbe la contea di Montalto. Girolamo Arciv. della sua patria; Antonio Istitutore dell’accademia dei Penosi; Achille riformatore dei partii statuti, e Girolamo consigliere e gonfaloniere di Ferrara. Altro ramo. Erano orinudi da Viterbo e nel 1488 vennero a Roma in persona di Nobilis Vir. Dom. Jaonnes Baptista de Crispis: nel 1500 Dom. Carolus Crispus J. U. d. abitava nel rione della Pigna, con la figlia Porzia e il figlio Domenico.. Riguardo a questo cognome abbiamo ritrovato ulteriori informazioni storiche in altri archivi. Purtroppo in lingua originale Inglese. : The Last Name of CRISPI was a baptismal name ‘the son of Crispian’, an early font name which was primarily extrapolated from the Latin CRISPINUS and was brought into England in the wake of the Norman Invasion of 1066. This name was euniquely popular in France in the Middle Ages, having been borne by Saint Crispin (martyred in 287). According to legend, under the reign of Diocletian he fled from Rome, with his brother St. Crispinian, and worked as a shoemaker in Soissons, while striving to spread Christianity. He and his brother suffered martyrdom in 287, by being thrown into molten lead. Their feast day is 25th October. During the Middle Ages, when people were unable to read or write, signs were needed for all visual identification. For several centuries city streets in Britain were filled with signs of all kinds, public houses, tradesmen and even private householders found them necessary. This was an age when there were no numbered houses, and an address was a descriptive phrase that made use of a convenient landmark. At this time, coats of arms came into being, for the practical reason that men went into battle heavily armed and were difficult to recognise. It became the custom for them to adorn their helmets with distinctive crests, and to paint their shields with animals and the like. Coats of arms accompanied the development of last names, becoming hereditary in the same way. Other records of the name mention Milo filius Crispini, 1273, County Oxford. William Crispin was documented in County Wiltshire in the year 1272. Peter Crispin, County Norfolk, ibid and Thomas Crispin appears in County Lancashire in the year 1379. A later instance of the name includes John Bedwell and Jane Crispen who were married at St. Dionis Backchurch, London in the year 1721. The associated arms are recorded in Sir Bernard Burkes General Armory. Ulster King of Arms in 1884. In many parts of central and western Europe, hereditary last names started to become stable at around the 12th century, and have developed and modified slowly over the years. As society became more complicated, and such matters as the management of tenure, and in particular the collection of taxes were delegated to unique functionaries, it became imperative to distinguish a more complicated system of nomenclature to differentiate one individual from another….
Noble title: Conti – Nobili
Coat of arms: D’azzurro, con albero di castagna al naturale, fruttifero di cinque rizzi d’oro…