Martínez
also Martinez
Son of Martín, the soldier-saint who shared his cloak.
- Origin
- Spanish
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- Spanish family
The seat of Martínez
Seat vacantChief
No one leads the Martínez community yet. When the movement opens, you can stand for its leadership, or help elect whoever does.
Current mission
No shared goal set yet. Once Martínez has leadership, it sets the public focus: a restoration, a gathering, a real-world project that helps its own.
The Martínez clan is being rebuilt. Join the waiting list for the movement today, and you help decide who leads it and what it does.
Help rebuild the Martínez clan →What does the Martínez name mean?
'Son of Martín', from the Latin Martinus, from Mars the war-god, though in the Christian centuries the name belonged above all to Saint Martin of Tours, the soldier who cut his cloak in two for a beggar.
The history of Martínez
Martín was one of the most popular names of medieval Europe, carried on the immense cult of Saint Martin of Tours, the Roman cavalryman who became the model soldier-saint. From the countless Iberian Martíns came Martínez, which travelled the colonial road to become one of the commonest surnames of Mexico and the Hispanic Americas. The warrior, by way of the saint of charity, is a fair emblem of the culture that carried it.
The castles of the homeland
The great strongholds of the homeland, look one up, see what it looked like in its prime, and recreate it to explore.
Reales AlcázaresRestored · prime 1366
Alcazaba of MálagaRestored · prime 1350
Montjuïc CastleRestored · prime 1799All castles in Spain → · Strongest castles in Spain → · Castles of Europe
Play As Your Clan
Hold a real castle against whatever you choose to send at it, take a ship out in her own service years, or stand at the shoulder of someone the record remembers. The chronicler sets the scene; the deeds are yours.