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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 battle of Alarcos where Alfonso VIII, king of Castile, was defeated in 1195 and where the king himself accompanied by his hosts, among whom members of this family were part, heroically resisted although they were later excommunicated by Pope Celestine III. The references of this family seem to be needed more frequently from the 15th to the 19th century, especially the events of the hosts of the thirds of Naples, commanded by D. Fernando de Toledo, Duke of Alba, who harassed the Duke of Guise that they were defeats without presenting a battle and forced to withdraw again to France with disgrace and shame. All this seems to coincide with the family memory of some of the members of the Bendicho family branch. They are his weapons: In silver, a sinople oak, highlighted by a saber boar. The study of the family heraldic shield "speaks" to us of those who formed the origin of family B., because that was their function, that of manifesting their differential elements to others. The enamels of the B. 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 we must add others such as the desire to victory and success and eloquence.