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Groups

Pucci

Heraldry Information

D'argento, alla testa di moro di nero, attortigliata del primo, il tortiglio in genere caricato di tre martelli (oppure tre lettere T) del secondo, i.e.

Argent, a Moor's head1 proper, wreathed of the first, decorated with little hammers sable, i.e.

Silver (white) shield with the head of a North African man in left profile wearing a headband marked with three black hammers (or the letter T)

1 Outdated language follows Howel Wills, Florentine Heraldry. A Supplement to the Guide-Books (London: Dean & Son, 1901), p. 36. For more on the problematic early modern terms "moro" and "Moor" see Kathleen E. Kennedy, “Moors and Moorishness in Late Medieval England.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 42, no. 1 (2020): 213–51; and Lauren Working, Nandini Das, João Vicente Melo, and Haig Smith, “Blackamoor/Moor.” In Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England, 40–50. Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

Group Type
Held One or More Priorates? yes
Year of First Priorate 1396
Year of Last Priorate 1532
Total Priorates Held 33
Ceramelli Number 3869
Branded Magnate? no
Malespini Lineage no
Dante Lineage no
Villani Lineage no
Molho Rank High Status
Padgett Rank New-new men, 1378-1433
Padgett Lineage yes
Litchfield Lineage yes
Database ID 456

Family Members (21 total)

Memorials (18 total)

Pucci Seracini
S. Agata 1 0
S. Croce 0 1439
S. Croce 122 1439
S. Francesco 09 Cappella de Pucci
S. Maria in Verzaia 15 arme moderna de Pucci
circa 1600s (date is approximate) to 1785 a
SS. Annunziata 0 0
SS. Annunziata 0 1450
SS. Annunziata 0 1475
SS. Annunziata 0 1607
SS. Annunziata 0 1607
SS. Annunziata 0 1607
SS. Annunziata 0 1607
SS. Annunziata 0 1607
SS. Annunziata 0 1607
SS. Annunziata 0 1607
S. Stefano al Ponte 04 Cappella Pucci Prosperi
St. Sebastian (Pucci)

Locations (1 total)

Vaio, S. Giovanni, Florence

Sources (9 total)

ASF, Ceramelli Papiani Online fasc. 3869
J. Najemy, Corporatism and Consensus pp. 331
U. Verino, De illustratione urbis Florentiae, Carlo Strozzi ed. pp. 71
R. B. Litchfield, Emergence of a Bureaucracy pp. 378
H. Wills, Florentine heraldry pp. 36, 116
ASF, Manoscritti, 519/VII, Registro di Alberi Genealogici fol. 149v-150
ASF, Manoscritti, 615, Copia del Necrologio della Metropolitana Fiorentina ind. Pucci
A. Molho, Marriage Alliance in Late Medieval Florence pp. 373
J. Padgett, Open Elite? app. p. 20

Notes

  • [a] Rosselli described the coat of arms as modern "moderna," suggesting a date in the early to mid seventeenth century.