Spera, Nobilty

Noble family of Arcevia (Ancona) oriunda di Montefoglio (Pesaro) and of which we have news from the sixteenth century.

He recognizes as his progenitor Pier Luigio, who died in 1727. From him came Terenzio, born in 1683 and Giambattista, a doctor in law and who settled in Arcevia, having married, on April 12, 1741, the noble Anastasia, daughter of Scipione Orsini , last of the family, which forced his descendants to add Orsini's surname and weapon.

Pietro di Giambattista, he went into "utroque", in 1763 at the University of Perugia, in June 1799 he was elected governor of Arcevia and then was admitted to the nobility of first degree with all descendants, which then in its members sat on the Council , having the priory and the gonfalonierato. Agostino was born from Piero who, having married on 26th July 1810 Giulia Filippini, of a noble family from the Arcevia, the last of his family, was obliged with his descendants to assume the surname Filippini. The nobility of the family was recognized with a diploma by the Head of Government on July 26, 1930, which recognized the coat of arms, inscribing it to the Golden Book of Italian Nobility.

The first Spera to set foot in Belmonte Mezzagno was Gioacchino and his wife Ignazia, he was born around 1740 and moved to the village just before 1760; we are sure of this because their first son Ignazio Spera was born in Belmonte in 1760. He followed it: Antonina in 1765; Giuseppe Antonio in 1766; Rosalia in 1772 and Rosolino in 1777.

Ignazio married Giuseppa La Rocca and they had nine children: Gioacchino; Ignazia; Augustine; Paul; Francis; Giacomo; Rosaria and Antonia. 

Giuseppe Antonio married Giacoma Bisconti and from their union four children were born: Gioacchino; Ludovico; Antonina and Rosaria.

Rosolino married Giuseppa D'Agostino and had five children: Gioacchino; Ignazia; Vincenzo and Maria. Rosolino and Giuseppa D'Agostino were our ancestry.

From all of them the entire lineage of the Spera di Belmonte Mezzagno opened.