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Absolutely typical of the Bergamo area, the theses on the origin of the surname are different, one claims that it derives from capileonis (lion's heads present in the coat of arms of the family), another would derive the surname from the Latin nomen Colius, another prefers the idea of the three testicles that Bartolomeo Colleoni, a well-known condottiere born in 1400, boasted of possessing Traces of this surname, can be found as early as 1300 in Martinengo (BG), in a parchment you can read: "... in hospicio heredum quondam dom. Federici de Collionibus civitatis Pergami ... "and this would lead to preferring the first of the three hypotheses on the derivation of the surname.
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