Origin of Alemani

It should derive from modifications of the Lombard term Arimanno (free man), but an ethnic root is also possible: Alemanni as they come from Alemagna (Germany).

We must also consider that Alamanno and Alemanno in the Middle Ages had become quite common names: "... iudico pro anima mea et filii mei Alamanni et parentum meorum suprascriptae ecclesiae Sancti Iacobi...".

Traces of this type of surname can be found, for example, in Alexandria in a document dated 1107: "...per successionem Alberti Alamanni filii quondam Guidonis marchinis fratris et cognati nostri...".

The surname Alemani is typical of the Milanese as well as Alemano which is almost unique and is probably due to transcription errors.

Alemanno, practically unique, is probably a transcription error by Alemanno.

Alemanni has a Salento nucleus and a Milanese nucleus.

Allamani, almost unique, is from the north.

Allamano, very rare, would appear to be from Turin.

Almannus, extremely rare, is from the south.

Allemanni is Piedmontese.

Almano is almost unique.

The origin of this lineage reaches very remote times. Old chronicles of Catalonia, which Pedro Tomich follows in his, refer that in the time of the Frankish Prince Carlos Martel, the Government of Guyana, or that of Aquitaine, had it in his name, the caudillo Oger Golant, Lord of a castle called Catalon, for which they called him Otger de Catalon. This leader, aided by nine distinguished captains, decided in 733 to go to Catalonia to fight against the Moors, and to carry out his purposes he crossed the valleys of Aran and Aneo with an army of twenty-five thousand men. In a few days they won the Ceretania and continued on the road to Gerona, encircling the town of Ampurias, the main point of the enemy concentrations. He died in 735, the aforementioned Oger of Catalon being found on this silver, and then Dapiser de Moncada, who was one of the nine alluded Captains, was elected General of that army.

The determined resistance of the Moors and the large reinforcements that came to their aid, caused the besiegers to lift the siege and retreat to the mountains, where they made forts until the arrival of Charlemagne in the years 778.


These chronicles add that when Charlemagne arrived in the Principality of Catalonia, which his son Luis had just won at that time, he ordered that nine counties be established, marking each one its limits and then instituting the nine baronies that were given to the nine Captains who went to Catalonia with Oger Catalón and who were the ones who cite various stories with the names of Capiser de Moncada, Galcerán de Pinós, Hugo de Mataplana, Galcerán de Cervera, Galcerán de Cervelló, Grao de Alamán or Alemany, Bernardo de Anglesola , Gisberto de Ribelles and Bernardo Roger de Eril.


All these gentlemen had, however, to be called something else before they were established in Catalonia, since they were people from strange lands, some from Germany, and the surnames with which they are quoted in these stories are mostly Catalan, and they must have taken them from the names of the castles and baronies that were later granted to them.


The chronicles to which we have been making reference, and which many authors have followed later, also state that said Captains were the progenitors of illustrious and ancient houses of Catalonia, coming from the surname Alamán, Alemán or Alemany, from the aforementioned Barón Grao of Alaman. It is this, then, and in the reported facts, many genealogists find the origin of the lineage that concerns us; but before accepting it as true, it is convenient to put some notes on it that we consider appropriate.


First of all, nothing written in those chronicles is said by other authors, except Bishop Turpín, who in his fabulous history mentions Aigolant (referring to Oger Golant), but affirms that he was King of the Moors and that Charlemagne He came to fight against him in Spain with an army of twenty-four thousand horsemen, without foot soldiers. It is more well known how likely that Bishop was to write or already improbable things, if not incredible.


In addition, there is no lack of Catalan historians of great authority and with a lot of news about ancient things, among them Jerónimo Paulo, a native of Barcelona, ​​who tried to demolish all the foundations of Tomich's story in the part related to the entry and origin of those nine Barons in Catalonia, giving everything for fiction and mockery.


If we add to this that modern historical criticism, since the time of Father Masdeu, denies those entries of Charlemagne in Spain, it will turn out that it is not prudent to accept without reserve the entire relationship pointed out about the origin of the German lineage, even when in she may have some point right.


Let us turn, then, to another of the versions that try to explain this origin.


Some points of contact with the previous one have the one that confirms that the German lineage comes from the imperial lineage of the Counts of Astolberg, sovereign Princes of Germany; for it says that the knight Querart, Count of Astolberg, married to Clotilda, of the Royal Blood of the house of Bavaria, had Querart Rachmont as his second-born, who married Claramunda, of the royal lineage of the ancient Kings of France, and that He was one of the nine heroes who in the years 735 undertook the conquest of Catalonia.


He adds that Querart Rachmont (to whom the Count of Cervellón and Barón de Oropesa, in the genealogy that he had printed on the house of his first title in 1663, gives him the affiliation of Alamán), won in the year 800 the Cervellón castle; that in it he erected his solar house; that Charlemagne gave him the title of Baron, and that he was in Spain first of the tree of the lineages of Alemán and Cervellón, because at hisAlamán's affiliation joined that of Cervellón, taking it from the name of the aforementioned castle and then beginning to be called Guerao Alamán de Cervellón.


As can be seen, almost the same objections can be applied to this new version as to the first, and before that, it is necessary to resort to the third and last one that, coinciding with the others in something, explains the origin of the lineage German saying that it comes from two gentlemen from Germany, who went from France to Catalonia to fight against the Moors and settled there. He adds that one of them was the aforementioned Guerao Alamán de Cervellón, who in the year 800 acquired control of the castle and barony of Cervellón, also taking this name as a surname, and being the progenitor of this house, and that the other was also Guerao referred to (according to other authors his name was Pablo) from Alemán or Alemany, founder of another branch of Alemán, which later merged with that of the first.


Guerao Alamán de Cervellón, who acquired the domain and barony of Cervellón in the year 800, was the first of a branch of Alemán, and the progenitor at the same time of the Cervellón lineage, for having also taken the name of Said surname was succeeded by Ramón Alamán de Cervellón, succeeded by Guerao Ramón de Cervellón, succeeded by Ramón Alemán de Cervellón, who served the Count of Barcelona, ​​Wifredo el Veloso, in the Catholic wars, married Adalanda, left Guerao Alamán as his successor de Cervellón, who married Brunifenda, was succeeded by Asulfo de Cervellón, married Druda, had Asulfo de Cervellón as their son, married Ricaldis or Riqueldis, had two sons named: Sendreo, who follows the line, and Hugo de Asulfo or Cervellón. Sendreo, was Lord of the castle of Cervellón, and the baronies of Montegut, Querol and Piñana also fell to him, he married Ermengarda and they had two children: Ennnego or Bonifilio, who follows the line, and Bernardo Sendreli. Ennego, he was sometimes called Ennego and other times Bonifilio, he married Ega and they had a daughter named Elliardis, who inherited the palace of Cervellón and the estate from her parents, care was taken, so that this plot of land would not pass to another, to be marry Hugo de Asulfo or de Cervellón, brother of his grandfather; this Hugo and his consort Elliardis had many children, among them the following: Alamán of Hugo de Cervellón, who follows the line, Bonifilio, Gariberto and Ugberto. Alamán of Hugo de Cervellón, succeeded in the house and married Sicardis, they had many children among them: Gerardu Alamani, who follows the line, Sendredo Alemani and Bonifilio Alamani. Gerardu Alamani (which means Guerao, son of Alamán; just like Alamán, his father, Alamán de Hugo was called, for having been the son of Hugo de Cervellón), paid a sacrament of homage to Ramón, Count of Barcelona, ​​and married Ermengarda , in which he procreated Guerao de Alamán, who married Poncia, daughter of the Count of Barcelona, ​​Ramón Berenguer, being born from this union Guerao de Alamán, who follows the line, and Pedro who was an ecclesiastic and Archdeacon. Guerao de Alamán, gave the sacrament of fidelity to Raimundo, Count of Barcelona, ​​married Arsendis and they had: Guerao Alamán, who will continue the direct succession of the Cervellón family, Guillen de Cervellón, who follows the line, and Bernardo de Cervellón. Guillen de Cervellón, married the heiress and only daughter of Pedro Alemán, from this marriage were among others: Pedro Alamán who follows the line and Guillen Alamán. Pedro Alamán married Blanca, and from this marriage Guillen Alamán was born, who had a long manly succession.


The Alemán or Alemany de Mallorca family comes from that of Catalonia, and appears to have been established there since ancient times. Jerónimo Zurita says that one of the knights who, in the years 1114, accompanied the Count of Barcelona, ​​Ramón Berenguer III, in the conquest of the island of Majorca, which was in the hands of the Moors, was Guerao de Alamán, whom he lists among those who distinguished themselves the most in that company. Zurita does not specify which of the several Guerao de Alamán this was; but it must have been Guerao de Alamán, fifth of the name of the Alamán de Cervellón branch, first-born son of Guerao Alamán, fourth of the name, and brother of Guillén de Cervellón, who married the only daughter and heiress of Pedro de Alamán . Now, when the Alemán or Alemany were established in Mallorca, giving reason to the family that settled in Mallorca, it should not have been as a result of said conquest by Ramon Berenguer III, but in the other one that the King of Aragon carried out in the year 1230 Don Jaime I, since this monarch was accompanied in his company by several gentlemen of the German lineage, who were the progenitors of the branches that were formed in Mallorca. they went on to conquerof Majorca, Alamán knights from the Cervellón branch, it is also known that other Alamán knights from the other Grao branch or Pedro Alemán or Alemany accompanied the King, since it is proven that Pedro Alamán or Alemany, who married Blanca and who He was the son of Guillén de Cervellón and his wife, the daughter and heiress of Pedro Alamán, descendant of the aforementioned Grao, he was found in the conquest of Mallorca with the people of Gascón de Bearne, and was inherited with a farmhouse. His relative Fernando de Alemany was also the conqueror of Majorca, and obtained from Count Nuno Sánchez a donation of a field in the Rossenxit farmhouse, in the municipality of Felanitx. Pedro de Alemany, who signed as a witness the privilege of knighthood that King James II granted to Pedro, son of Ponce Vich in 1279.


Many of the Catalan knights of the German lineage served, as can be seen from some of the data that is exposed, the Kings of Aragon and their names are linked in History to the most salient deeds carried out by Don Jaime I the Conqueror Don Pedro III, Don Jaime II, Don Alfonso IV, Don Pedro IV, Don Juan and Don Martín. These knights, and their successors, created very important branches and houses in Aragon, whose members always enjoyed the honors and preeminence that corresponded to them due to their noble and high lineage.


Ramón Alamán, Guerao Alamán, Guillén Alamán, Ferrer Alamán, Pedro Alamán, Bernardo Alamán and others flourished notably in Aragón during the reigns of the aforementioned Monarchs.


From Catalonia and Aragon the lineage passed to Valencia. Mosen Jaime Febrer quotes in his Trovas: "When Calos Martel made Otger Kataló, a Tudesco by nation, general of all Gascony, nine baronies were founded in the Principality of Catalonia; and among them the most opulent, beautiful and noble was the one founded by the of the Alemany family, which does not recognize any dominion or pay fief or homage to another; it had three red wings for arms, on a field of gold: it has been proven with evidence that Raimundo Alemany was a native of this family and noble house, who was a hardy warrior who distinguished himself greatly in the conquest of Valencia serving Don Jaime I".


The Germans of Murcia also come from those of Catalonia, and since ancient times there have been very important knights of this lineage in that city. Among them, Jordán Aleman flourished, who served the King Alfonso X the Wise in the occasions of war that he had on the border of Granada, and in other points, especially in the kingdom of Murcia. For all these services he granted him, said Monarch, half of the Alcarria de Benahabiai de Cepti. Later King Don Sancho, whom the aforementioned gentleman continued to serve, confirmed these land grants, plus the one in Gorqui that Jordán had bought, revalidating them later in favor of his sons Ramón and Miguel Alemán, to whom Sancho also gave half of Catral, in Orihuela, plus the houses and ovens of Murcia that Don Alfonso X had granted to his father.


The Alemany also spread to Castilla, La Rioja, Extremadura and Andalusia.


One of those of this lineage who passed to Castile was the Aragonese gentleman Jaime Pérez Alemán, who married Mencía Gómez Jarava, of the illustrious Jarava family of Cuenca. A daughter of this couple, named Jimena Alemán, married Mauricio Navarro, a native of Cañete, and they had Mencía Navarro y Alemán as their daughter, who made the marriage between her and Juan Ramírez, Mayor of the town of Alarcón.

Another line was established in the village of La Moraleja, in the province of Cuenca, and from it was Miguel Atanasio Alemán, Lawyer of the Royal Councils, made information on nobility before the Royal Chancery of Valladolid, in 1790.

In Casarrubios de los Montes, province of Toledo, another line was established, from which Francisco Alemán and Jerónimo Alemán came, the first requested a declaration of nobility in the Chancery of Valladolid in 1533, and the second in 1544.


In Riaza, in the province of Segovia, another line of Alemán has a ancestral home, which connected with the Ortiz family, and whose last name is Ortiz de Alemán.


Of the Alemán line, established in the city of Santo Domingo de la Calzada (La Rioja), were: Gaspar Alemán y Torres, Lorenzo Alemán y Torres and Pedro Alemán y Torres, the three of them proved their nobility, in 1689 and 1695, before the Royal Chancellery of Valladolid.


A branch of Extremadura settled in the province of Cáceres. From her came Francisco Alemán Sande, a native of Cilleros, and Manuel Alemán de Sande, a native of Zarza la Mayor; the first proved his nobility before the Royal Chancery of Valladolid in 1788, and the second in 1776.

A branchAlemán, who settled in Seville, had a lot of luster. Álvaro Alemán Llarena came from this house, a native of said population, who married Inés de Rivera, of the same nature, and they were the parents of Alonso Alemán Llarena y Rivera, baptized in Seville in 1593, Accountant Mayor and Deputy Warden of the Royals Alcázares of said population. married Micaela Velázquez y Calderón, a native of Madrid, born from this union: Álvaro Manuel Alemán y Velázquez, who follows the line, and Juan Antonio Alemán y Velázquez, a native and Knight of Twenty-four of Seville, and Knight of the Order of Santiago since 1686.


In Vizcaya there were also of this lineage. Flores de Ocáriz cites Juan Alemán de Leguizamón, a native of Bilbao, who married Francisca Téllez, and they were the parents of Francisca del Águila, who made the marriage between her and Juan de Guevara, a native of the town of Manurga, province of Álava.


There was another house in the Baztán valley (Navarra) that had a site of immemorial antiquity.

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