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By references of historians of the time and others found by Araldis in the city and other private registry files, we could affirm, but not assure, that this shield or another very similar to it, initially appeared from the 11th to the 14th century, particularly in the negotiation carried out in the council of Palencia in which the marriage of Doña Urraca, queen of Castile and León from 1109 to 1126, with Alfonso I the battling king of Aragon and Navarra was annulled. The references of this family seem to be needed more frequently from the 15th to the 19th century, especially the facts of the negotiation with the French in the Treaty of the "Return" of the Netherlands to France in 1662, reigning Philip IV. All this seems to coincide with the family memory of some of the members of the García De Toledo family branch. They are their weapons: In silver, six azure pigeons, with feet and beaks of gules. The study of the family heraldic shield "speaks" to us of those who formed the origin of the G. family, since that was their function, that of manifesting their differential elements to others, since the inclusion of the stick element is the characteristic of the nobles of military origin, (Sticks) wants to look like the sticks of the "castrum" (camp). The enamels of the G. weapon proclaim the following values: Silver corresponds to the symbol of the Moon, purity, sincerity, temperance, clemency and kindness are the spiritual characteristics of the family, to which must be added others such as the desire to victory and success and eloquence.