Azzopardi Web Site

My name is Victor Azzopardi and I started this site   on July 30, 2008, and since I'm trying to find connection. I'm DNA tested on MyHeritage and uploaded toGEDmatch H037361. There are 6243 names in our family site.The site was last updated on Oct 2 2020, and it currently has 2 registered member(s). Etymology: It derives from a combination of the Langobardic Italian names Azzo meaning 'noble' and Pardo, originally the name of a Germanic tribe (the Bardi);[1] Surnames including "Azzo" are likely related to the Germanic hadu (war, battle), per Weber, or to atha, atta (father).An alternative etymology is from the Greek σόω (race) and πάρδος (panther), as "fighter of the Saracens" (often referred to as the panther race). This Greek etymology (analogous to other Eastern Sicilian surnames like Cacopardo) is today disreputed.Azzopardi is sometimes listed among the names of the Jewish Italkim community, however there are few sources to support this, with a supposed etymology from sefardi. As the name is attested in Malta in 1419-1420, before the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal (and from Malta), it is unlikely that its etymology may be related to sefardi. According to Godfrey Wettinger, "Some would regard Azzopardi as ethnic, associating it with the word Sephardic referring to an Oriental Jew, but the separate existence of Accio and Pardo as surnames in the twelfth century counsels caution in reaching premature conclusions." History:A Genoese notary of the 13th century bore the name Ogerius Açopardus. This being one of the oldest Italian surnames, introduced by one or more Christian settlers from Sicily some time between the thirteenth and the fifteenth century.[5] Malta's Militia list of 1419-1420 includes the names of Thumeu and Antoni Azupardu.[6]A certain Francisco Azopardo was commissioned by the Holy Inquisition in Malta as an Arabic-language reader, as we can read in this document dated 22 September 1637: "... Ref.ente Em.o D Card. Albornotio l.tas R.mi Inquisitoris Melitensis de schola Arabica in ea Insula erigenda, and of D. Francisco Azopardo anthe Collegij de Prop. Fide Alumno Reader linguae Arabicae in ea deputando; Sac. Con. probans, censuit scholam p.tam them in from Insula erigendum, et Lectorem deputandum, ac constituendum esse praefatu D. Franciscum; ..". The Azzopardi bring by weapon: In azure, an olive tree, terrasado of sinople, accompanied to the sinister one of a leopard, to the natural one, and in the right-handed canton of a star, of six tips, of gold. The study of the family heraldic shield "speaks" of those who formed the origin of the family A., because that was its function, that of manifesting to others its differential elements, since the inclusion of the star element is the most widespread figure in the Heraldry, its meaning is imprecise, as it refers to the Peninsula, but it seems to prove its fidelity to the Church of Rome, by analogy to the meaning in Lombardy and Tuscany that was the membership of the Guelph party (of the Pope of Rome). The enamels of the weapon of the A. proclaim the following values: the Azur corresponds to the symbol of water, of the continuity of life, is a color of nobility, beauty, chastity and fidelity, in addition other virtues characterized the family, such as economic abundance, perseverance, luck, fame and the desire for victory. .. NEC TIMEO, NEC TERREO