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Ancient and noble family from Catalonia. They passed with King Don Jaime I to the conquest of Mallorca. They are their weapons: Gold, with a terraced sinople pine of the same color, and two saber crows perched at the foot of its trunk and facing each other. 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 entourage that accompanied the Catalan emissaries of Ramón Berenguer III in the interviews of his imperial allies with Federico Barbarroja and the Republic of Genoa in the pacts against the Republic of Pisa in 1,150 to 1,155, which was later an unconditional ally. The references of this family seem to be needed more frequently from the XV to the XIX century, especially the events of lepanto, accompanying the assault and boarding troops of D. Luis de Requesens in the events of 1,571. All this seems to coincide with the family memory of some of the members of the Picornell family branch. The study of the family heraldic shield "speaks" to us of those who formed the origin of the P. family, because that was their function, that of manifesting their differential elements to others. The enamels of the weapon of the P. proclaim the following values: Gold is the symbol of the Sun, origin of life, its spiritual characteristics correspond to faith, mercy, temperance, charity and justice, on the other hand said enamel points to the family with happiness, love, nobility and splendor, that is, it is the noblest of metals.