Gonfalonnier
The gonfalonnier (or gonfalonier) is the person charged to carry the Gonfalon. This term is particularly used during the Moyen-âge in Europe.
In Italy it is often a title. With Florence, he is the chief of the government at the time of the republic. In this city, the gonfalonier was one of the nine selected citizens every two months to form the government of the Seigneurie of Florence. He had the responsibility of manage justice and he was guard of the standard of the city which was exposed at the end of a cross. To distinguish it from his/her eight companions, his jacket was embroidered of hermine and was decorated with gilded stars. The same title is also used with Lucques and His. In Rome, Gonfalonier is a sometimes hereditary honorary title in certain families: Cesarini at the 16th century, the gonfalonier of the Roman people , the Farnèse, gonfalonier of the holy Roman Church .
References
- Encyclopedia, or reasoned Dictionary of sciences, arts and the trades Page 7:740
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