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Personal data Nicolas Diagostino Balbani di Agostino Balbani 

• He was born on December 27, 1522 in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.Source 6
• Alternative: He was born on December 27, 1522 in Lucca, Lucca, Toscana, Italy.Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• He died on August 3, 1587 in Geneva, Switzerland, he was 64 years old.Source 7
• Alternative: He died on August 3, 1587 in Ch√™ne-Bougeries, Geneve, Switzerland, he was 64 years old.Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• A child of Agostino Di Giovanni Balbani and Lucrezia Sbarra
• This information was last updated on October 8, 2019.

Household of Nicolas Diagostino Balbani di Agostino Balbani

(1) He is married to Lucrezia Balbani (Monticatini Montecatini).

They got married November 1548 at Lucca, Tuscany, Italy, he was 25 years old.Source 8

Child(ren):

1. Filippa Philippa Balbani  1552-1618 
2. Angiola Balbani  1553-????
3. Catarina Balbani  1555-1556
4. Olimpia Balbani  1561-1566

(2) He is married to Vittoria da Thiene.

They got married in the year 1557 at Geneva, Switzerland, he was 34 years old.Source 8

Child(ren):

1. Paul BALBANI  < 1559-????
2. Marguerite Balbani  > 1570-1571
3. Marguerite BALBANI  > 1570-1571
4. Susanna Balbani  1565-????
5. Olympia Balbani  1561-1566
6. Giulia Balbani  1567-1648
7. Esther Balbani  1560-????
8. Esther BALBANI  1560-????
9. Olympia BALBANI  1561-1566
10. Giuditta BALBANI  1563-1648
11. Susanna BALBANI  1565-????
12. Giulia BALBANI  1567-????
13. Sarra Diodati (BALBANI)  ± 1570-1645

(3) He is married to Angela Cenami.

They got married in the year 1576, he was 53 years old.Source 8

(4) He is married to Angela Cenami.

They got married in the year 1576, he was 53 years old.

Notes about Nicolas Diagostino Balbani di Agostino Balbani

Bettye S. Rathbone writes:
"From the 14th century the Balbani had been members of the Court of Merchants in Lucca, Italy. The Lucchese merchants formed trading and banking companies, with branches in flanders, Belgium, France, Switzerland and England. It was customary for the young men in the family to be sent to one of these branches for a time to work with their relatives, usually returning to Lucca to marry. Their wives were chosen from other merchant families, thus strengthening the ties between the various merchants.

"During these sojourns abroad, the young men were often exposed to the new ideas in religion that arose after Martin Luther's dispute with the established church. In addition, some of the early reformers, such as Peter Martyr Vermigli, had preached in Lucca itself. While many remained faithful to the Roman church, at least eight adult members of the Balbani
family left Lucca in the 16th century for religious reasons.

"Although Lucca was then an independent Republic, it was influenced by Rome and Spain to seek out heretics -- those who sought to worship God in the manner of the reformed church. The efforts to root out heresy caused a number of prominent citizens to flee to Flanders, Switzerland and Lyon, France, which was then a center of the reformed faith. Unable to force their return, the government in Lucca offered 300 crowns to anyone who should kill one of them. [ Note: Here, Rathbone cites another: Thomas McCrie, "History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in
Italy in the Sixteenth Century" (Philadelphia, 1842), p. 236. ] The Council of geneva protested this action on behalf of the Lucchese refugees in the city. No record is found that anyone actually collected this bounty."

Rathbone presents an illustration of the mark of the Balbani merchant company about 1371, and she cites Leon Mirot, "Etudes Lucquoises," Chapter IV, Appendix I, in "Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes," vol. XCI (Paris, 1930), pp. 142-150; also Plate I, opp. p. 150.

The mark was banded of silver and azure, with six birds flying, of gold placed in azure.

"Their arms in Geneva: of silver with three bands of azure, charged each one with three eaglets of gold or of silver. There are at least two variations. Crest: An eagle with wings spread, of gold.

"The earliest date assigned to the arms in Geneva is 1593, after the date of Nicolas Balbani's death.

"The family became extinct in Geneva in the 17th century, and is also extinct in Lucca."2 SOUR S67
3 PAGE pages 32-33.

Excerpt from Bettye S. Rathbone, pages 49-52, "Some Of The Ancestors Of Francis Flournoy Sr. Of Chesterfield County, Virginia," (Austin, TX : Nortex, 1985):

Nicolas (Niccolo, Nicolao) di Agostino Balbani, born 27 December or September) 1522. After his father's death, his uncle Francesco Balbani became his guardian.

Nicolas stayed in school in Lucca until he was 17 years old and then went to study law at the University of Bologna in 1540 and later at Padua. On 31 August 1547 he graduated with a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Ferrara. He was proficient in Greek as well as law.

After graduation he traveled to Antwerp, accompanied by his cousin Tommaso Balbani, to visit his brothers and to see the country, staying for six months. In September he returned to Lucca by way of Lyon, accompanied by Francesco Micheli from Lyon to Lucca. Two months later he was married (1) to Lucrezia Montecatini, daughter of Niccolo Montecatini,
and began to take part in the public life of Lucca. He was elected Rector of the school for the first semester of 1549 and in 1553 served in the Council General.

His wife Lucrezia died in Lucca on 29 July 1555, in childbirth. Her brother-in-law Turco Balbani said that her death "was a great losss because she was a blessed young woman and of very good morals." [Balbani ms., f. 25v.]

Nicolas had gone to Lyon in April of 1555 and returned in the fall after his wife's death. He was again elected to serve as Rector of the school for the first semester of 1556, but, having become convinced of the truth of the reformed religion, he left Lucca for Lyon on 14 May 1556, for the last time, taking with him his four year old daughter Filippa and leaving
his youngest daughter Angiola in Lucca.

During the time he was in Lyon, he served as catechist and preacher in the Italian community there. Meanwhile the officials in Lucca had ordered him to return to face a charge of heresy, on pain of exile and confiscation of his property. He refused to return and the sentence was finally carried out on 2 July 1566, after a delay of ten years.

Not feeling entirely safe in Lyon, Nicolas moved to Geneva where he was received HG on 19 October 1556, along with his brother-in-law Francesco Michaeli, merchant, and another citizen of Lucca, Nicolas Aliena, also a Doctor of Laws, as was Balbani.

In 1557 he was married (2) to Vittoria da Thiene, daughter of Count Giulio da Thiene of Vicenza. Her father was admitted HG on 11 September 1572.

About this time - 1557 - Nicolas began the serious study of theology. He continued to give his services as catechist and lay preacher in the Italian Church which had been set aside by the Geneva authorities for the use of the Italian refugees in the city. The facilities assigned to them were in the Temple de Notre-Dame la Neuve (the Auditoire) and were shared
with the English refugeees. The Italians met there on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at nine hours, and the English met at the same hour on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. [ Bettye S. Rathbone cites: Amedee Roget, "Histoire du Peuple de Geneve depuis la Reforme jusqu'a l'Escalade," vol. IV (Nieuwkoop: de Graaf, 1976 reprint of the 1870-1883 edition), p. 328.]

Nicolas was admitted BG [ Bourgeois of Geneva ] on 22 August 1560 and was consecrated Minister of the Italian Church on 25 May of the following year. His brother Turco says that he "practiced his office with zeal and reputation, and from all he acquired great praise and glory." [ Balbani ms., f. 25v. ] He was well read and possessed so many books that in 1572
he had to ask the Seigneurie for an empty room in the cloister of St. Pierre in which to place them.

Vittoria, his second wife, died in Geneva, and he was married (3) to Angela Cenami, widow of Luiso Guidiccioni, in 1576, by whom he had no children. Angela and her first husband had arrived in Geneva earlier, and on 29 August 1564 Luiso Guidiccioni was declared a heretic by the Lucchese senate.

Nicolas Balbani died in Geneva on 3 August 1587, possibly of gout, but the death record says he died of a defluxion of the brain with a continuing fever. He was living in La Place de St. Pierre, in a house assigned to him when he became minister of the Italian Church.

During his career as minister to the Italian refugees, he appeared before the Council of Geneva of their behalf in 1562, following the decree that was issued by the Republic of Lucca forbidding the exiles to conduct commerce in Italy, Spain, France, Flanders and the Brabant. The Council gave their support to the Lucchese citizens residing in the territory of
Geneva.

In 1564 Nicolas went to Lyon for a short while to preach, but soon returned to Geneva. About this time he wrote his first work, "Trattato primo delle risposte fatte ad un libretto di Messer Antonio Possevino della Messa. Nel quale con le parole di Dio si mostra che il sacrificio della Messa e una inventione degli huomini et una horrenda idoltria" (Geneva, printed by Oliviero Fordrino, in 1564). [ Rathbone writes: Examples of this work are in the Biblioteca Casanatense, the British
Museum, the Bibliotheque Mazarine, the Guicciardiniana, etc. ] The treatise was accompanied by two other writings, one of which Nicolas attributed to Scipione Lentulo ("Brevi risposte ad un certo Scritto, che Antonio Possevino mando a i fedeli, c'habitano ne le Valli di Lucerna, Angrogna...fatte per un Ministro delle dette Valli"). The other is thought to be Balbani's own work: "Due sermoni fatti nel tempo che si celebra la Santa Cena del Signore. Il primo supra 'l decimo capo
dell'Epistola a gli Efesi cominciando dal versetto undecimo infin al decimo settimo" (Geneva, it too was printed by Oliviero Fordrino in 1564).

Possevino had been preaching extensively in Lyon and the "libretto" referred to had appeared there in 1563 and was reprinted several times.

In 1566, a translation of the Catechism of Calvin appeared, traditionally attributed to Nicolas, entitled "Il Catechismo di messer Giovan. Calvino con una brieve dichiaratione et allegatione delle autorita della Santa Scrittura, e con un brieve sommario di quella dottrina che si crede sotto il Papato." (Geneva, printed by Giovan Battista Pinerolio, 1566). The
introductory epistle, dated Geneva, 1 August 1566, and the addressed "to the faithful of Italy," bears Balbani's name, but it is possible the translation itself was not his. [ Again, Rathbone: Examples are in the Biblioteca Casanatense, the British Museum, the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal, etc. ]

While Balbani was very interested in encouraging the Italian faithful to follow the "true religion," he also hoped to assuage the fears of the rulers that the followers of the reformed church would become rebels and threats to the civil peace. He knew, however, that the reformed church in Italy faced serious obstacles and that any success would be achieved
with great difficulty.

Nicolas is described as an animated, facile speaker and a prolific writer who did no shrink before dangers and discomforts, but gave freely of his ministry to the Italian congregations of Paris and Lyon as well as to the one in Geneva.

Shortly before his death he completed a biography of Galeazzo Caracciolo, marquis of Vico, a close friend and a prominent member of the Italian congregation in Geneva. The work, entitled "Historia della vita di Galeazzo Caracciolo chiamato il Signor Marchese nella quale si contiene un raro e singolare essempio di costanza e di perseveranza nella pieta e
nella vera religione," and translated into French, Latin, English and German, has been reprinted many times in all of the translations. An English edition, entitled "Newes from Italy" (London, 1608) was reprinted in 1979. [ Per Rathbone, Published by Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Ltd., Amsterdam, and Walter J. Johnson, Inc., Norwood, N.J. ]

Caracciolo had designated Balbni executor of his last will, made in 1577, together with Jacopo Fossa, from Cremona (Mins. of Jean Jovenon, vol. 6, f. 43). The marquis died 7 May 1586. The following year, his widow, Anna Fremery, left her silver porringer to Balbani's third wife, as a special mark of affection, and a dowry of 200 livres to each of his two young daughters, Giuitta and Sarra.

Angela Cenami, Nicolas Balbani's third wife, left three wills. In the first one, written 21 June 1578, she left 24 livres to the Italian Church and three to the General Hospital; to Sarra Balbni, her goddaughter, 100 livres, and 25 livres to Anna di Franco Taruffo, also her goddaughter. Also mentioned were Maddalena Guidiccioni, Angela's daughter by her first
marriage, now the wife of Marco Offredi; Porzia Guidiccioni, another daughter, widow of Giovanni Pitorsi, residing in Lucca; a third daughter Ortensia Guidiccioni, wife of Giuseppe Pini, residing in Lyon; and two sons Battista and Ottavio. Angela's husband, Nicolas Balbani, and Franco Taruffo, were named executors.

In the second will, written ten years later, she made some changes in legacies, adding the names of several grandchildren, as well as the Bourse for the Italian poor, and the College. The third will, in which she made a few other changes, was written in 1592.

Angela died 3 February 1592, aged 73 years, in the home of Marc Offredi, her son-in-law, near St. Germain in Geneva.2 SOUR S67 3 PAGE pages 49-52.

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Nicolo Balbani
Gender:
Male
Birth:
December 27, 1522
Lucca, Province of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
Death:
August 03, 1587 (64)
Geneva, Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
Immediate Family:
Son of Agostino Di Giovanni Balbani and Lucrezia di Bernardino Sbarra
Husband of Lucrezia (Montecatini) Balbani and Vittoria Balbani
Father of Filippa (Balbani) Puerari; Juditta Balbani and Sarra Diodati
Brother of Jean Balbani; Catarina Calandrini; Matilda Balbani; Turco Balbani; Zabetta Balbani; and Biagio Balbani ¬´ less

Bettye S. Rathbone writes:
"From the 14th century the Balbani had been members of the Court of Merchants in Lucca, Italy. The Lucchese merchants formed trading and banking companies, with branches in flanders, Belgium, France, Switzerland and England. It was customary for the young men in the family to be sent to one of these branches for a time to work with their relatives, usually returning to Lucca to marry. Their wives were chosen from other merchant families, thus strengthening the ties between the various merchants.

"During these sojourns abroad, the young men were often exposed to the new ideas in religion that arose after Martin Luther's dispute with the established church. In addition, some of the early reformers, such as Peter Martyr Vermigli, had preached in Lucca itself. While many remained faithful to the Roman church, at least eight adult members of the Balbani
family left Lucca in the 16th century for religious reasons.

"Although Lucca was then an independent Republic, it was influenced by Rome and Spain to seek out heretics -- those who sought to worship God in the manner of the reformed church. The efforts to root out heresy caused a number of prominent citizens to flee to Flanders, Switzerland and Lyon, France, which was then a center of the reformed faith. Unable to force their return, the government in Lucca offered 300 crowns to anyone who should kill one of them. [ Note: Here, Rathbone cites another: Thomas McCrie, "History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in
Italy in the Sixteenth Century" (Philadelphia, 1842), p. 236. ] The Council of geneva protested this action on behalf of the Lucchese refugees in the city. No record is found that anyone actually collected this bounty."

Rathbone presents an illustration of the mark of the Balbani merchant company about 1371, and she cites Leon Mirot, "Etudes Lucquoises," Chapter IV, Appendix I, in "Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes," vol. XCI (Paris, 1930), pp. 142-150; also Plate I, opp. p. 150.

The mark was banded of silver and azure, with six birds flying, of gold placed in azure.

"Their arms in Geneva: of silver with three bands of azure, charged each one with three eaglets of gold or of silver. There are at least two variations. Crest: An eagle with wings spread, of gold.

"The earliest date assigned to the arms in Geneva is 1593, after the date of Nicolas Balbani's death.

"The family became extinct in Geneva in the 17th century, and is also extinct in Lucca."2 SOUR S67
3 PAGE pages 32-33.

Excerpt from Bettye S. Rathbone, pages 49-52, "Some Of The Ancestors Of Francis Flournoy Sr. Of Chesterfield County, Virginia," (Austin, TX : Nortex, 1985):

Nicolas (Niccolo, Nicolao) di Agostino Balbani, born 27 December or September) 1522. After his father's death, his uncle Francesco Balbani became his guardian.

Nicolas stayed in school in Lucca until he was 17 years old and then went to study law at the University of Bologna in 1540 and later at Padua. On 31 August 1547 he graduated with a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Ferrara. He was proficient in Greek as well as law.

After graduation he traveled to Antwerp, accompanied by his cousin Tommaso Balbani, to visit his brothers and to see the country, staying for six months. In September he returned to Lucca by way of Lyon, accompanied by Francesco Micheli from Lyon to Lucca. Two months later he was married (1) to Lucrezia Montecatini, daughter of Niccolo Montecatini,
and began to take part in the public life of Lucca. He was elected Rector of the school for the first semester of 1549 and in 1553 served in the Council General.

His wife Lucrezia died in Lucca on 29 July 1555, in childbirth. Her brother-in-law Turco Balbani said that her death "was a great losss because she was a blessed young woman and of very good morals." [Balbani ms., f. 25v.]

Nicolas had gone to Lyon in April of 1555 and returned in the fall after his wife's death. He was again elected to serve as Rector of the school for the first semester of 1556, but, having become convinced of the truth of the reformed religion, he left Lucca for Lyon on 14 May 1556, for the last time, taking with him his four year old daughter Filippa and leaving
his youngest daughter Angiola in Lucca.

During the time he was in Lyon, he served as catechist and preacher in the Italian community there. Meanwhile the officials in Lucca had ordered him to return to face a charge of heresy, on pain of exile and confiscation of his property. He refused to return and the sentence was finally carried out on 2 July 1566, after a delay of ten years.

Not feeling entirely safe in Lyon, Nicolas moved to Geneva where he was received HG on 19 October 1556, along with his brother-in-law Francesco Michaeli, merchant, and another citizen of Lucca, Nicolas Aliena, also a Doctor of Laws, as was Balbani.

In 1557 he was married (2) to Vittoria da Thiene, daughter of Count Giulio da Thiene of Vicenza. Her father was admitted HG on 11 September 1572.

About this time - 1557 - Nicolas began the serious study of theology. He continued to give his services as catechist and lay preacher in the Italian Church which had been set aside by the Geneva authorities for the use of the Italian refugees in the city. The facilities assigned to them were in the Temple de Notre-Dame la Neuve (the Auditoire) and were shared
with the English refugeees. The Italians met there on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at nine hours, and the English met at the same hour on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. [ Bettye S. Rathbone cites: Amedee Roget, "Histoire du Peuple de Geneve depuis la Reforme jusqu'a l'Escalade," vol. IV (Nieuwkoop: de Graaf, 1976 reprint of the 1870-1883 edition), p. 328.]

Nicolas was admitted BG [ Bourgeois of Geneva ] on 22 August 1560 and was consecrated Minister of the Italian Church on 25 May of the following year. His brother Turco says that he "practiced his office with zeal and reputation, and from all he acquired great praise and glory." [ Balbani ms., f. 25v. ] He was well read and possessed so many books that in 1572
he had to ask the Seigneurie for an empty room in the cloister of St. Pierre in which to place them.

Vittoria, his second wife, died in Geneva, and he was married (3) to Angela Cenami, widow of Luiso Guidiccioni, in 1576, by whom he had no children. Angela and her first husband had arrived in Geneva earlier, and on 29 August 1564 Luiso Guidiccioni was declared a heretic by the Lucchese senate.

Nicolas Balbani died in Geneva on 3 August 1587, possibly of gout, but the death record says he died of a defluxion of the brain with a continuing fever. He was living in La Place de St. Pierre, in a house assigned to him when he became minister of the Italian Church.

During his career as minister to the Italian refugees, he appeared before the Council of Geneva of their behalf in 1562, following the decree that was issued by the Republic of Lucca forbidding the exiles to conduct commerce in Italy, Spain, France, Flanders and the Brabant. The Council gave their support to the Lucchese citizens residing in the territory of
Geneva.

In 1564 Nicolas went to Lyon for a short while to preach, but soon returned to Geneva. About this time he wrote his first work, "Trattato primo delle risposte fatte ad un libretto di Messer Antonio Possevino della Messa. Nel quale con le parole di Dio si mostra che il sacrificio della Messa e una inventione degli huomini et una horrenda idoltria" (Geneva, printed by Oliviero Fordrino, in 1564). [ Rathbone writes: Examples of this work are in the Biblioteca Casanatense, the British
Museum, the Bibliotheque Mazarine, the Guicciardiniana, etc. ] The treatise was accompanied by two other writings, one of which Nicolas attributed to Scipione Lentulo ("Brevi risposte ad un certo Scritto, che Antonio Possevino mando a i fedeli, c'habitano ne le Valli di Lucerna, Angrogna...fatte per un Ministro delle dette Valli"). The other is thought to be Balbani's own work: "Due sermoni fatti nel tempo che si celebra la Santa Cena del Signore. Il primo supra 'l decimo capo
dell'Epistola a gli Efesi cominciando dal versetto undecimo infin al decimo settimo" (Geneva, it too was printed by Oliviero Fordrino in 1564).

Possevino had been preaching extensively in Lyon and the "libretto" referred to had appeared there in 1563 and was reprinted several times.

In 1566, a translation of the Catechism of Calvin appeared, traditionally attributed to Nicolas, entitled "Il Catechismo di messer Giovan. Calvino con una brieve dichiaratione et allegatione delle autorita della Santa Scrittura, e con un brieve sommario di quella dottrina che si crede sotto il Papato." (Geneva, printed by Giovan Battista Pinerolio, 1566). The
introductory epistle, dated Geneva, 1 August 1566, and the addressed "to the faithful of Italy," bears Balbani's name, but it is possible the translation itself was not his. [ Again, Rathbone: Examples are in the Biblioteca Casanatense, the British Museum, the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal, etc. ]

While Balbani was very interested in encouraging the Italian faithful to follow the "true religion," he also hoped to assuage the fears of the rulers that the followers of the reformed church would become rebels and threats to the civil peace. He knew, however, that the reformed church in Italy faced serious obstacles and that any success would be achieved
with great difficulty.

Nicolas is described as an animated, facile speaker and a prolific writer who did no shrink before dangers and discomforts, but gave freely of his ministry to the Italian congregations of Paris and Lyon as well as to the one in Geneva.

Shortly before his death he completed a biography of Galeazzo Caracciolo, marquis of Vico, a close friend and a prominent member of the Italian congregation in Geneva. The work, entitled "Historia della vita di Galeazzo Caracciolo chiamato il Signor Marchese nella quale si contiene un raro e singolare essempio di costanza e di perseveranza nella pieta e
nella vera religione," and translated into French, Latin, English and German, has been reprinted many times in all of the translations. An English edition, entitled "Newes from Italy" (London, 1608) was reprinted in 1979. [ Per Rathbone, Published by Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Ltd., Amsterdam, and Walter J. Johnson, Inc., Norwood, N.J. ]

Caracciolo had designated Balbni executor of his last will, made in 1577, together with Jacopo Fossa, from Cremona (Mins. of Jean Jovenon, vol. 6, f. 43). The marquis died 7 May 1586. The following year, his widow, Anna Fremery, left her silver porringer to Balbani's third wife, as a special mark of affection, and a dowry of 200 livres to each of his two young daughters, Giuitta and Sarra.

Angela Cenami, Nicolas Balbani's third wife, left three wills. In the first one, written 21 June 1578, she left 24 livres to the Italian Church and three to the General Hospital; to Sarra Balbni, her goddaughter, 100 livres, and 25 livres to Anna di Franco Taruffo, also her goddaughter. Also mentioned were Maddalena Guidiccioni, Angela's daughter by her first
marriage, now the wife of Marco Offredi; Porzia Guidiccioni, another daughter, widow of Giovanni Pitorsi, residing in Lucca; a third daughter Ortensia Guidiccioni, wife of Giuseppe Pini, residing in Lyon; and two sons Battista and Ottavio. Angela's husband, Nicolas Balbani, and Franco Taruffo, were named executors.

In the second will, written ten years later, she made some changes in legacies, adding the names of several grandchildren, as well as the Bourse for the Italian poor, and the College. The third will, in which she made a few other changes, was written in 1592.

Angela died 3 February 1592, aged 73 years, in the home of Marc Offredi, her son-in-law, near St. Germain in Geneva.2 SOUR S67 3 PAGE pages 49-52.

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