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This surname is very widespread in the peninsula with numerous ancestral houses. 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 escort of the King of Castile, D. Fernando el Santo, who met his mother in 1245 in a place called Pozuelo where Ciudad Real was later founded. The references of this family seem to be needed more frequently from the 15th to the 19th century, especially the events of the escort who accompanied the future King D. Felipe, son of Carlos I (V of Germany), from La Coruña to Southampton on 20 July 1554 for the celebration of his wedding with the unappreciated Doña Maria Tudor, called the bloodthirsty, Queen of England and daughter of Henry VIII. All this seems to coincide with the family memory of some of the members of the Carriel family branch. The study of the family heraldic shield "speaks" to us of those who formed the origin of the C. family, since that was their function, that of manifesting their differential elements to others, since the inclusion of the tree element (oak, pine, cypress) It means that the nobility of the family is ancient and is associated with kindness and perseverance, the supposed virtues of its components. The enamels of the C. 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.