The village enters history with a will, and with a clause that actually took effect. On the eighteenth of December 1111 the priest Gisulfo left the castle and lands of Calvignano to two men, Tedisio and Opizo Ottone, but on certain conditions: were they not fulfilled, everything would pass to the Cluniac priory of San Maiolo in Pavia. They were not fulfilled, and the monks took the village; it was they who later granted it out as a fief.
Since then Calvignano passed to the Sannazzaro, then from 1371 to the Bottigella, who were also the largest landowners of the area and left their name to a farmstead; when that family died out in 1690 the fief was sold to the counts Fantoni of Pavia. What is remarkable is that this small piece of hill, squeezed between the great fiefs of Casteggio, Montalto Pavese and Fortunago, always managed to remain on its own. A coat of arms, on the other hand, it still does not have: nobody has ever formally granted it one.
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