Dalmatius of Pavia was simply a local preacher of northern Italy, was venerated at what was called Pedona but there are no records of where he was born.
His biography states that Dalmatius was born at Forum Germarzorum (present-day San Damiano Macra) and became a churchman and evangelizer in Pedona. His biography was composed in the 7th or 8th centuries, its author perhaps a Lombard monk of the monastery of Pedona who was drawing from oral tradition. 
