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Typical noble Milanese family, it should descend as a cadet branch from the family of the Vitalians of Padua, assuming the identifier of Vitalianus Bonus Romeus (good pilgrim) which later became Borromeo, from there they moved to San Miniato (PI) where as faith bankers Ghibellines accumulated great substances, with the victory of the Guelphs in 1370 they were deprived of their property and sent into exile they arrived in the Milanese at Lainate (MI), we find traces of this family in a deed of 1422 where it reads: "... Vitalianum de Vitalianis dictus de Borromeis filius quendam domains Joacob ... nominatiae de sedime jacens in loco Leynate plebis ... "; Visconti made Vitaliano Borromeo his own feudal lord of the district of Arona in 1439 and conferred the title of Count in 1445. The most famous character of this family was San Carlo the Milanese Carolus Borromeus (1538-1584) archbishop of Milan. additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli The surname Borromei derives from the noble Milanese family whose most notable members were Cardinal Federico Borromeo and San Carlo Borromeo, whose origin is to be found in the Vitalians of Padua; in fact the Vitaliano Vitaliani banker took the surname Borromeo in 1406 from his mother's family. For the etymology: 'Buon Romeo', that is a good pilgrim going to Rome.
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