A certain Frangipane was perfumier to Louis XIII of France, hence the common name of the flowering tropical trees that are actually in the genus Plumeria.
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Frangipane/frangipani is derived from frangere il pane (Italian for "break the bread"), from which the noble Frangipani family of Rome derived its name in the 11th century.
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In some anecdotes it was the kind of sweet that the noblewoman Jacopa da Settesoli brought to St. Francis of Assisi in 1226, when he was dying.