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Gerlanda and Gerlandi are almost unique, and are most probably originated from errors of transcription of Gerlando that would seem Sicilian originating in the area of SantʻAngelo di Brolo and Santa Margherita in the Messina and the Agrigento, in Palermo there is probably a secondary lineage, Gherlandi it is practically unique, Ghirlanda has a stock in the Verona area and in the Padua area, one in the Genoese, La Spezia and Massese, one in the Pesaro and one in the Syracuse area, Ghirlandi has a Milanese and a Ravenna lineage, Ghirlando is almost unique, Girlanda has a Milanese stock , one in the Verona area and one very small in the Messina area, Girlando would seem typically Sicilian, from the Syracuse area and the Ragusa area, they should all derive from the medieval names, of Lombard origin, derived from the name Gairland composed of the union of the terms gaire (spear) and land ( country), with the meaning of man from the land of the lancers, Gerlandus, Gerlanda, or Gherlandus, Gherlanda of which we have an example of use in this act of giving of the year 956: "... Divine pietate legumque auctoritate sanctum est ut de terrenis rebus celestia adquirantur. Quapropter ego Gerlandus et uxor mea donamus Deo et sanctis apostolis Petro et Paulo, ad locum Cluniacum, ubi dunnus Maiolus, abba, preesse videtur, unum campum situm in pago Lugdunensi, in agro Iaonico, in villa Corteplacia; et terminatur a mane et a sero aqua volvente ... ".
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