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Mainetti is typically Lombard, with a main stock in the area of the provinces of Lecco and Sondrio, particularly in Lecco, Mandello Del Lario and Lierna in the Lecco area and Colorina, Mese, Chiavenna and Samolaco in the Sondri area, in Brescia and Milan, it also presents a line between Imola (BO), Faenza (RA) and Forlì, Mainetto, absolutely rare, is present in the Genoese and Grosseto, should derive from the Frankish name Mainet, name that adopted the young Carlo, the future Charlemagne, in his exile in Toledo, as it is described in the Chanson de Saisnes of the twelfth century, a name that latinized into Mainettus, Manettus or Mainetus, of which we have an example in 1273 with Maineto bishop of Fiesole: "In Christi nomine amen. M ° CC ° LXXIII °, first induction , .. Taddeus prior de Poppiena, licet indignus executor venerabilis patris domains Maineti Of the gratia phesulan bishops, universis atque singulis clericis et laicis for episcopatum phesulanum ... ". and in a fidejussion of 1418 in Florence: "Pro Potestaria Ripefratte pro resto bonorum tertii fideiussit years Manettus Andree suprascriptus his own appointment and etiam pro et vice et nomine dicti Iacobi Montis cum quo ipse stat et ut dixit de his with ...".
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