Famiglia assai antica ed illustre, originaria di Antivari, trapiantata in Verona nel XV secolo. Domenico Ronca, nel 1451, era membro del Consiglio nobile di Verona, al quale appartenne pure nel 1615 Aurelio, ultimo di questa casa. La presenza dell’arma ci conferma l’avita nobiltà raggiunta da questa casata. D’argento a due fasce, la superiore di rosso, l’inferiore di verde. Varie famiglie omonime si propagarono in diverse regioni d’Italia. Le notizie bibliografiche che ci vengono tramandate sono riconducibili a questa casata di cui ne abbiamo tratto nota. Altro ramo. Originaria di Bagnuoli, ha goduto nobiltà in Salerno al seggio di Campo, ed ha posseduto la baronia di Casignano ed il ducato di Sammartino. Altra famiglia alzò per arma. D’azzurro, ad una picca d’argento, astata di nero. Riguardo a questo cognome abbiamo ritrovato ulteriori informazioni storiche in altri archivi. Purtroppo in lingua originale Inglese. Over the centuries the name Di Ronza may have had many changes and the present form, according to our studies, appears to be different from the original. It is important to realize that the name may have gone through dialect variations, contractions, shortened forms of the original one, lenitions, errors due to incorrect transcriptions and voluntary changes. Therefore, we believe that the surname Di Ronza came originally from Ronca, on which we are able to provide the following historical and heraldic information taken from bibliographic sources of Araldicus: The associated coat of arms for this name are recorded in J.B Rietstaps Armorial General. Illustrated by V & H.V Rolland’s. This Monumental work took 23 years to complete and 85,000 coats of Arms are included in this work. This Last Name of RONCA was an English, German, French and Jewish female given name primarily extrapolated from the Old French word RAINE, and rendered in medieval documents in the Latin form RANA (Queen). The Hebrew rendering of the name was MALKA. The name has spread widely in many forms which include RONK, RAYNE, RAIN, RENNE, REINLE, REINK, RENNEKE, REINKE and RAGUIN. When traditional Jews were forced to take family names by the local bureaucracy, it was an obligation imposed from outside traditional society, and people frequently took the names playfully and let their imaginations run wild by choosing names which corresponded to nothing real in their world. No one alive today can remember the times when Jews took or were given family names (for most Ashkenazim this was the end of the 18th century or the beginning of the 19th) although many remember names being modified after emigration to other states, such as the United States and Israel in recent years. A Barbara RONK was born in Leacock township, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Philip RONK; she died on March Ist, 1849, in her thirty-eighth year, the mother of eleven children, having married Samuel Groff, who died in July 1862, from wounds received in a skirmish in which he was gallantly fighting during the Civil War. 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. Among the humbler classes of European society, and euniquely among illiterate people, individuals were willing to accept the mistakes of officials, clerks and priests as officially bestowing a new version of their Last Name, just as they had meekly accepted the Last Name they had been born with. In North America, the linguistic problems confronting immigration officials at Ellis Island in the 19th century were legendary as a prolific source of Anglicization….
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Coat of arms: Partito; nel primo spaccato d’argento sopra un partito di rosso o di verde; nel secondo di nero. Al leone d’oro, attraversante sul tutt…
Altri cognomi trovati: Ronca, Ranz, Ranzo, Renz, Renzi, Renzo, Roncas, Ronci, Ronco, Ronk, …