The village took its name from the friars and then imposed it on the place that had named it. At the origin there was the Court of Alfiano, which took in today's settlement of Corte de' Frati with the pieve of Grumone and the monastery, Alfianello and other lands around; in the tenth century the court passed under the monastery of Santa Giulia in Brescia, and the hand of the Church never left it again. The place name Corte de' Frati, referring to a part of the fief of Alfiano, begins to appear in the thirteenth century. Then, in the Napoleonic period, from 1810 to 1816, the comune of Corte de' Frati was created and Alfiano became a frazione of it: a clean reversal, the court reduced to a hamlet of the piece of itself that had changed its name.
Alfiano, however, did not accept it. With the constitution of the Lombardo-Veneto kingdom it took back its comunal autonomy, and after the unification of Italy, in 1863, it changed its name to Alfiano ed Uniti, following that formula typical of the Cremonese countryside which marked a comune made of several settlements held together. It lasted five years: in 1868 the comune of Alfiano ed Uniti was aggregated to Corte de' Frati, that is exactly as had been decided half a century earlier under Napoleon. The comune's coat of arms was granted by royal decree of 6 September 1928, the blue gonfalon by another decree of 22 February 1934.
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