Montesi Family History

Italian:: habitational name for someone from a place called Monte from an adjectival form of the placename. from the plural of Montese a habitational name from Montese in Modena province.

patronymic from the medieval personal name Montese (from monte ‘mountain’). from a short form of the 13th-century Florentine name Chiermontese a habitational name for someone from the French city of Clermont from an adjectival form of the placename.

Late Latin montenis ‘of or belonging to mountains’ or various other habitational names such as Chiaromontese denoting someone from Chiaromonte etc.