The history of the Patrizi Naro Montoro family

Patrizi Naro Montoro

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The Patrizi Naro Montoro are a still flourishing Roman nobility family, originated in the male branch from the Naro family, belonging to the municipal patriciate of Rome.

History

The family is known since the 14th century with Paolo Naro, who held the position of Conservatore in 1385, rising, for public, civil, ecclesiastical offices and patrimony, to considerable fame and wealth in the city. Today you can still see their residence palace in Piazza San Luigi dei Francesi (in front of the homonymous church), the Naro palace called Santa Chiara between Via Torre Argentina, Via Nari, and Via Monterone. Another palace was located in Piazza Campo Marzio, a district where they originated, and still, the villa, seat of the famous Artists' Ateliers at number 54 Via Margutta, in the past had taken the name of Via Nara from the family. A Tiberio Naro returned to hold the position of Conservatore during the mid-sixteenth century, acquiring numerous properties southeast of Rome, including Dragoncello, Petronella, Monte Migliore, and Porciglian, and Francesco Naro participated in the Battle of Lepanto aboard the Capitana ship under the command of Marcantonio Colonna. With Bernardino Naro, Fabrizio's son, head of the Sant'Eustachio branch, and brother of Cardinal Gregorio, who acquired the profitable position of Chancellor of the Roman people, the Naros acquired the county of Mustiolo near Civitella di Romagna in 1638. From the Capponi family, they acquired the fief of Mompeo in 1646, with the title of Marquis. Marquises of Baldacchino since 1640 on the Mustiolo fief, which they resold in 1647, and confirmed in dignity in 1746 with the Urban Roman Bull of Pope Benedict XIV.

In 1750, following Francesco's marriage to Porzia, daughter and heiress of Marquess of Montoro Giovanni Chigi Montoro, who held the position of major Foriere of the sacred apostolic palaces, and Maria Virginia Patrizi, the family inherited their surnames, coat of arms, adding to their own the surname Patrizi due to obligations related to the inheritance, and possession of properties, including the palace located in Piazza San Luigi dei Francesi, their residence, Montoro palace in the street of the same name, previously Vicolo di Corte Savella, Villa Patrizi in Porta Pia and the Marquisates of Montoro, Paganico, Castel Giuliano and Sasso. Giovanni Patrizi Naro Montoro, son of Francesco and Porzia, married Princess Cunegonda of Saxony-Lausitz, niece of Augusto III of Poland, from whom the future cardinal Costantino Patrizi Naro was born; devoutly catholic and convinced antinapoleonist due to refusing to send two of his children to the military college of La Fleche, he suffered the confiscation of his properties and deportation to Fenestrelle near Turin, subsequently with the Restoration he was appointed senator of Rome by Pius VII, and then assistant prince to the pontifical Throne. In 1816, the Patrizi Naro Montoro, like many other Roman baronial families, renounced feudal rights over Montoro, Mompeo, Sasso and Castel Giuliano, however, they maintained their titles and freehold properties.

Banner bearers of the Holy Roman Church

The family enjoyed the title of Banner Bearer of the Horse Guards and Broken Lances of the Holy Roman Church within the Papal Court since 1638 with the Marquis Bernardino Naro, only as the Commander of that corps, by the Brief of Pope Urban VIII. The same Pope also granted Giovani Battista, the son of Bernardino, the title of Banner Bearer of his personal bodyguards, the Horse Guards. However, Bernardino Naro was later appointed as the Captain of the Horse Guards again, during the papacy of Innocent X. The title was later awarded to Marquis Emilio de' Cavalieri and Marquis Patrizio Patrizi, in 1656, whose family lineage would later be extinct with the Naro family. In 1668, the title was granted again to Giovani Battista Naro, known as the Banner Bearer of the Papal Guard, and only from 1676 does one begin to speak of the Banner of the Holy Church, carried by a member of the Naro family. It is made of a red silk cloth, embroidered with gold, trimmed with red silk fringe and decorated with gold cords and bows. The cloth is embroidered with golden stars in the center, the papal coat of arms, and the triregnum with crossed keys. The pole is a golden wood, ending with a silver metal lance. This banner, in papal ceremonies, was accompanied or preceded by the two Lieutenant Commanders of the Horse Guards' companies.

With the dissolution of the body of the Pontifical Horse Guards and the subsequent establishment in 1801 by Pius VII of the Noble Guard, the hereditary office of Standard-bearer of the Holy Roman Church was then maintained by the family until the suppression of some military corps still operating in the Holy See, as ordered by Paul VI who had already decreed the abolition of every form of hereditary with the Motu Proprio Pontificalis Domus of 1968, with the abolition of the Pontifical Noble Guard, of which the hereditary Standard-bearer held the role of Commander and Lieutenant General, in a letter to Secretary of State Jean Villot dated September 14, 1970. The last hereditary Standard-bearer of the H.R.C. was the Marquess Don Patrizio Patrizi Naro Montoro (1888-1968).

Coat of Arms

Blazon: In the 1st Quarter, barry of six silver and black (Patrizi) - In the 2nd Quarter, azure an oak tree eradicated with four branches crossed twice or (Chigi) - In the 3rd Quarter, azure three silver moons inverted placed palewise (Naro) - In the 4th Quarter, azure on a terraced mount of green a mount of six peaks or, overall a chief sewed with the arms of Angevin (Montoro).