Martellini Family Name and Heraldry

Martellini is how some branches of the Martelli family came to write their name. Its meaning, shared with Martelli, is “from martello, "hammer", for a smith”. Martellini is built on the same root as Martelli, with the ending -ni. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Martello.

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