Family of Pope Leo XIV

The family of Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost) is an American family of French, Italian, Spanish and Louisiana Creole descent. The surname "Prevost" is from a Piedmontese/French cognate of the title "provost", originally from the Latin praepositus '[one] placed in charge'. His paternal grandfather's original family name was the Italian, Riggitano, which the grandfather changed to Prevost—the surname of the pope's French paternal great-grandmother—after settling in the United States.