Originaria di Nirano nella provincia di Modena, ammessa alla nobiltà modenese, ferrarese e romana. Antonio dottore, in diritto, fu chiamato a Ferrara da Alfonso II come consultore di camera e gli conferì, insieme a’ suoi nepoti, Bartolomeo ed Orazio i titoli di conte e di cavaliere. Dal suddetto Antonio discende la linea dei conti e marchesi Nigrelli di Ferrara, poichè il di lui figlio Giulio-Cesare fu investito nel 1631 da Vittorio Duca di Savoia della contea di Venaria, mutata in marchesato l’8 feb. 1667. Egli fu giudice dei Savi, ambasciatore ordinario della città presso il Pontefice, e senatore di Roma. Ottavio, capitano in Germania, nel 1662 passò al servizio del Papa; suo figlio Antonio fu cameriere segreto e coppiere di Alfondo IV Duca di Modena; Bartolomeo dott. in leggi, fu a capo del comune di Sassuolo nel 1599, dopo essere stato podestà ducale di Carpi nel 1583.. Riguardo a questo cognome abbiamo ritrovato ulteriori informazioni storiche in altri archivi. Purtroppo in lingua originale Inglese. : This Italian and French Last Name of NIGRELLI is a nickname for someone with notably dark hair or complicatedion from Old French ‘noir’. In Spanish the name can be spelt as Negri, De Negri(s) and Nigris. Amongst the many variations of this name it can be spelt as Nier, Negri. A noble member of this name was Ada NEGRI (l870-l945) Italian poet, born in Milan. She became a teacher, wrote socialistic verse and short stories. As the agricultural depression of southern Italy worsened towards the end of the l9th century, people started to escape to the New World. The exodus started in earnest in l887 with Brazil and other parts of Latin America being the original destinations. By l893 the economy had improved in the United States and people headed there from Italy in greater and greater numbers. In l898 there were more Italian immigrants to the USA than from any other state. In the post war era, more than a quarter of Italians left the state for a new life. They joined a flood of immigrants to America which was averaging a million a year in the pre war years. 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 l0th century. The typical Italian last names endings are ‘i’ and ‘o’ the former being characteristic of northern Italy. At first the coat of arms was a practical matter which served a function on the battlefield and in tournaments. With armour encasing the knight from head to foot, the only means of identification was the insignia painted on his shield and on his surcoat, the draped and flowing garment worn over the armour. 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….
Noble title: Conti
Coat of arms: D’azzurro, al gallo rivolto e coronato di nero fermo sopra un monte di due cime di verde, e sinistrato da una spiga d’or…