Franciscus

Franciscus is a Latin given name, originally an epithet meaning "the Frank, the Frenchman". It was applied to Saint Francis of Assisi (1181/82–1226). Francis had been baptized Giovanni (John); his father was Italian and his mother Provençale (at the time not considered French); his father was on business in France when he was born, and when he returned to Assisi, he began to call his son by the nickname Francesco, in the opinion of G. K. Chesterton possibly because out of a general enthusiasm for all things French, or because of his commercial success in France.[1] After the canonization of Saint Francis of Assisi in 1228, the custom of naming children after saints led to the popularization of Franciscus as a given name. In the vernaculars of western Europe, the name diversified into the forms Francesco (Italian), Francisco (Spanish and Portuguese), Francesc (Catalan), François (Old French Franceis, whence English Francis), Franz (German, whence Hungarian Ferenc, Scandinavian and Dutch Frans); besides Frans, the Latin form remains commonly given in Dutch.

Franciscus
Gendermasculine
Origin
Word/nameLatin
Other names
Related namesFranziskus, Francis, Francisco, François, Françoise, Franciszek, Francesco, Francesc, Ferenc, Frank, Franco, Franz, Frans, Franklin

Franciscus may serve as the latinization of any of these given names; conversely, Francis may serve as the anglicization of anyone called Franciscus.

People called Franciscus include:

As a chosen name
  • Pope Franciscus (papal name chosen in 2013 by Jorge Mario Bergoglio, born 1936)

As a Latinized name
  • Franciscus Assisiensis (1181/2–1226), Saint Francis of Assisi
  • Franciscus Accursius (Francesco d'Accorso; 1225–1293), Italian lawyer
  • Franciscus de Mayronis (François de Meyronnes; c.1280–1328), French scholastic philosopher
  • Franciscus de Marchia (Francesco della Marca; c.1290–c.1344), Italian Franciscan theologian and philosopher
  • Franciscus de Florentia (Francesco Landini; c.1330–1397), Italian composer, organist, singer, poet and instrument maker
  • Franciscus Monachus (Frans Smunck; c.1490–1565), Brabantian cartographer
  • Franciscus Irenicus (Franz Friedlieb; 1494–1553), German humanist and historian
  • Franciscus Bossinensis (fl. 1509–1511), possibly Bosnian lutenist-composer working in Venice
  • Franciscus Stancarus (Francesco Stancaro; 1501–1574), Italian Catholic priest, theologian, and Protestant convert
  • Franciscus Titelmannus (Frans Titelmans; 1502–1537), Flemish Franciscan scholar
  • Franciscus Sonnius (Frans van de Velde; 1507–1576), Dutch theologian and bishop
  • Franciscus Duarenus (François Douaren; 1509–1559), French jurist and professor of law
  • Franciscus Portus (Φραγκίσκος Πόρτος; 1511–1581), Greek-Italian Renaissance humanist and classical scholar.
  • Franciscus Dryander (Francisco de Enzinas; 1518–1552), Spanish classical scholar, translator and Protestant apologist
  • Franciscus Londariti (Φραγκίσκος Λεονταρίτης; 1518–1572), Crete-born Venetian composer
  • Franciscus Balduinus (François Baudouin; 1520–1573), French jurist, Christian controversialist and historian
  • Franciscus Patricius (Francesco Patrizi; 1529–1597), Venetian philosopher
  • Franciscus Costerus (Frans de Costere; 1532–1619), Brabantian Jesuit, theologian and author
  • Franciscus Barocius (Francesco Barozzi; 1537–1604), Italian mathematician, astronomer and humanist
  • Franciscus Raphelengius (Frans van Ravelingen; 1539–1597), Flemish-born Dutch scholar, printer and bookseller
  • Franciscus Vieta (François Viète; 1540–1603), French mathematician
  • Franciscus Junius (the elder) (François du Jon; 1545–1602), Huguenot scholar and theologian
  • Franciscus Haraeus (Frans Verhaer; 1555–1631), Netherlandish theologian, historian, and cartographer
  • Franciscus Gomarus (François Gomaer; 1563–1641), Dutch theologian
  • Franciscus Aguilonius (François d'Aguilon; 1567–1617), Belgian Jesuit mathematician, physicist and architect
  • Franciscus Dousa (Frans van der Does; 1577–1630), Dutch classical scholar
  • Franciscus Quaresmius (Francisco Quaresmio; 1583–1650), Italian writer and Orientalist
  • Franciscus Burgersdicius (Franck Burgersdijk; 1590–1635), Dutch logician
  • Franciscus Junius (the younger) (1591–1677), Huguenot philologist and art historian
  • Franciscus Linus (Francis Line; 1595–1675), English-born Jesuit priest and scientist
  • Franciscus Blancus (Frang Bardhi; 1606–1643), Albanian bishop and author
  • Franciscus Sylvius (Franz de le Boë 1614–1672), Dutch physician and scientist
  • Franciscus Bonae Spei (François Crespin; 1617–1677), Belgian Catholic scholastic philosopher
  • Franciscus a Mesgnien Meninski (François Mesgnien; 1623–1698) French-born Turkologist and Ottoman historian

As a given name

As a surname

References
  1. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1924). "St. Francis of Assisi" (14 ed.). Garden City, New York: Image Books. p. 158.
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