Antica famiglia lucchese, ammessa alla nobiltà nel 1527, e detta anticamente Vernareccia. Tale cognominizzazione, anteriore al XIV secolo, dovrebbe derivare, direttamente o attraverso modificazioni ipocoristiche o patronimiche, da variazioni del nome medioevale Nicolaus o Nicolao e dei suoi derivati come Nicola, Nicolò. Prime tracce di essa, le troviamo agli inizi del ‘300 a Pisa: “…Haec autem e vetusto Codice MSto, existente Florentiae in Bibliotheca nobilis viri Antonii Nicolini, describenda curavit Illustrissimus Comes Albericus Archintus Mediolanensis, Abbas Commendat….”, e negli atti di un processo per stregoneria a Bormio (SO) nel 1519: “…domina Judith uxor ser Johannis Baptiste de Mariolis de Burmio filia quondam domini Nicolini de Zenonis de Burmio habet super infrascriptis…”. La famiglia alzò per arme. D’azzurro, al capriolo cucito di rosso, accompagnato da tre gigli d’argento, 2 in capo, ed 1 in punta; col capo d’Angiò. Altro ramo. Antica e nobile famiglia di Bologna. Il commendator G.B. di Crollalanza riporta la blasonatura di questa famiglia nei volumi del suo Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane. Inoltre, la presenza dell’arma e del motto nella bibliografia documentata della famiglia Nicolini ci conferma l’avita nobiltà raggiunta dalla casata. Infatti l’origine del motto risale a circa il XIV secolo e deve essere ricercata in quei detti arguti che venivano scritti sui vessilli o bandiere dei cavalieri, esposti alle finestre delle locande in cui questi alloggiavano, in occasione dei tornei, e durante i tornei stessi. Il motto era un pensiero espresso in poche parole facente allusione a un sentimento palese o nascosto, a una qualità, a un ricordo storico, per stimolo al coraggio o onore. Era scelta dal capo della famiglia, dal cavaliere entrante in lizza o data dal sovrano al proprio uomo ligio. Motto della famiglia. Nec vexata mutatur. . Riguardo a questo cognome abbiamo ritrovato ulteriori informazioni storiche in altri archivi. Purtroppo in lingua originale Inglese. : The Last Name of NICOLINI was a baptismal name ‘the son of CLAUSEN’ a form of NICHOLAS, which was a name meaning ‘people’s victory’. The name was popular among Christians throughout Europe in the Middle Ages, largely as a result of the fame of a 4th century Lycian bishop, about whom a large number of legends grew up, and who was venerated in the Orthodox Church as well as the Catholic. East European forms of this name are spelt with the initial M, as Mikulas in Poland. The name was sometimes borne by women in the Middle Ages. After the Crusades in Europe, in the 11th 12th and 13th century people started, perhaps unconsciously, to feel the need of a family name, or at least a name in addition to the simple one that had been possessed from birth. The nobles and upper classes, euniquely those who went on the Crusades, observed the prestige and practical value of an added name, and were quick to take a Last Name. The name may also have denoted someone who farmed land belonging to a monastery, and who paid rent in the form of provisions for the monks. The name has numerous variant spellings which include NICOLAS, NICKLESS, NICHOL, NICKOL, NICKEL, NICKLE, NICOLAU, NICCOLAI, NICHOLS and NICOLLIC, to name but a few. Notables of the name include NICHOLAS I (The Great) (circa. 820-867) pope from 858 to 867. He asserted the supremacy of the church against secular rulers such as Lothair, king of Lorraine (whose divorce he forbade) and church leaders like the archbishop of Reims. His feast day is 13th November. NICHOLAS II, primarily Gerard of Burgundy (circa. 980-1061), pope from 1058 to 1061. NICHOLAS V, primarily Pietro Rainalducci (died. 1033) antipope from 1328 to 1330. Otto NICOLAI (1810-49) the German composer, born in Konigsberg. In 1847 he became kapellmeister at Berlin, where his opera ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ was produced before he died. William NICOL (circa.1744-1797) was the Scottish schoolmaster, a classics master in the High School of Edinburgh. He was a friend of Robert Burns, who immortalized him in the poem ‘Wllie Brewed a Peck O’Maut’. The lion depicted in the arms is the noblest of all wild beasts which is made to be the emblem of strength and valour, and is on that account the most frequently borne in Coat-Armour….
Noble title: Nobili
Coat of arms: D’azzurro, al capriolo cucito di rosso, accompagnato da tre gigli d’argento, 2 in capo, ed 1 in punta; col capo d’AngiÃ…