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Don Diego García de Toledo, seventh lord of Mejorada, who married Doña Catalina Manrique. 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 festivities carried out in 1219 in the surroundings of the Huelgas monastery (Burgos), on the occasion of the celebrations for arming Fernando III, son of Alfonso VIII and Doña Leonor de Plantagenet. The references of this family seem to be needed more frequently from the 15th to the 19th century, especially the events of the Duke of Osuna's secretary, who, together with the Marquis of Villafranca and the Marquis of Bedmar, prepared the "conspiracy of Venice" to on May 14, 1618, aborted by the still unsurpassed information service of the Most Serene Republic of Venice and its Council of Ten. All this seems to coincide with the family memory of some of the members of the Toledo De Mejorada family branch. They are his weapons: Silver and six chopped azure pigeons and armed with gules. The study of the family heraldic shield "speaks" to us of those who formed the origin of the T. 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 appear the sticks of the "castrum" (camp). The enamels of the weapon of the T. 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