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Ignatius Coat of Arms and Name History

Ignatius

Origin Displayed: Italian

Spelling variations of this family name include: Egnace, Ignatius, Iglesias, Inglese, Ignace and others.

First found in Messina, formerly Promontorium or Pelorum, a city of Sicily and capital of the province of Messina.

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Conrad Ignatius, who was naturalized in Arkansas in 1895; Paul Emel Franz Ignatius, who arrived in Iowa in 1892; as well as a bearer of Ignatio, who came to San Francisco in 1851.

Some noteworthy people of the name Ignatius

Paul Robert Ignatius (b. 1920), American Secretary of the Navy between 1967 and 1969 and Assistant Secretary of Defense under the Johnson administration
David Ignatius, American novelist and columnist and associate editor of The Washington Post

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RENAISSANCE

The Renaissance was a great rebirth of Classical art, literature, and science. It began in the Italian city-state of Florence in the 14th century and it was characterized by the spread of humanism and the beginning of objective scientific inquiry. Wealthy Florentine merchants and bankers such as the powerful Medici family, saw themselves as the heirs of the great figures of the ancient Roman Empire. Many of these families became the lavish patrons of artists and scholars in order to increase their own prestige and secure political power.