Antica e nobile famiglia originaria di Genova. Il commendator G.B. di Crollalanza riporta la blasonatura di questa famiglia nei volumi del suo Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane. I nomi dei Maddalena si trovano soprattutto ricordati in contratti di acquisto di terre e case a partire dal XIII secolo. Ma se ci mancono i rogiti anteriori a quelli di Giovanni Scriba dell’anno 1150, e di Lanfranco Lotaro del 1180, onde accrescere più gradi di nobiltà di questa famiglia, gli stessi atti però ci somministrano una prova evidente di un’antichità molto anteriore, trovandosi molte di esse sì numerose e divise in parecchi rami, in modo che si vede chiaramente che per rimontare ai loro stipiti primitivi sarebbe d’uopo salire varie generazioni, e penetrare non solo nell’undicesimo secolo, ma avanzarsi di molto al di là del mille. Annovera questa illustre casata personaggi di elevate virtù. La penuria delle scritture in quegli antichi secoli e sopratutto gl’incendii, specialmente quello cagionato dalle bombe del 1684, avendo distrutto molti antichi protocolli ci privano di quelle curiosità più nobili. La presenza dell’arma nella bibliografia documentata della famiglia Maddalena ci conferma l’avita nobiltà raggiunta dalla casata .. Riguardo a questo cognome abbiamo ritrovato ulteriori informazioni storiche in altri archivi. Purtroppo in lingua originale Inglese. : The associated coat of arms for this name are recorded in J.B Rietstaps Armorial General. Illustrated by V & H.V Rolland’s. This Monumental work took 23 years to complete and 85,000 coats of Arms are included in this work. This Last Name of MADDALENA was primarily from the Greek female given name MAGDALENE. This is a byname meaning ‘the woman from MAGADALA’ a village on the Sea of Galilee, primarily deriving its name from the Hebrew MIGDAL. The name was given in the New Testament to the woman cured of evil spirits by Jesus (Luke 8:2) who later became a faithful follower. The popularity of the name increased with the supposed discovery of her relics in the 13th century. The name is also spelt MADLIN, MAGDELINE, MADELINE, MADOLIN, MAGDELYN and MADOZ, to name but a few. It was not until the 10th century that modern hereditary last names first developed, and the use of stable names spread, first to France, and then England, then to Germany and all of Europe. In these parts of Europe, the individual man was becoming more important, commerce was increasing and the exact identification of each man was becoming a necessity. Even today however, the Church does not recognise last names. Baptisms and marriages are performed through use of the Christian name alone. Thus hereditary names as we know them today developed little by little during the 11th to the 15th century in the various European states. In the Middle Ages heraldry came into use as a practical matter. It originated in the devices used to distinguish the armoured warriors in tournament and war, and was also placed on seals as marks of identity. As far as records show, true heraldry started in the middle of the 12th century, and appeared almost simultaneously in several states of Western Europe. The lion depicted in the arms is the noblest of all wild beasts which is made to be the emblem of strength and valour, and is on that account the most frequently borne in Coat-Armour….
Noble title: Nobili
Coat of arms: Partito; nel 1° di rosso, a sei coste umane d’oro poste 2, 2 e 2 addossate; nel 2° d’argento, a tre fedi di carnagione manicate di bianco, vestite d’azzurro, poste in capriolo rovesciato, una sull’alt…