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Ancient and noble lineage, originated in the Sierra de Cameros, half a league from the towns of Wall and gaps in the Rioja. There was the famous house of Tejada. In a battle that freed early ninth century King Alfonso “The Chaste” with the Moors, fought with such courage and bravery Fernandez Sancho true gentleman, even after being broken spear, he continued to hit with the remnants of it, dealing as stout sticks to the Moors that made them flee in terror. before those strokes with the wooden era of so-called “tejo”, admired the King could not help but exclaim “that gives the tiled Sancho, Sancho thereafter Tejada Fernandez took his surname and was the original stem lineage. In the year 844, King Don Ramiro I, successor to King Alfonso “The Chaste”, the Muslims won the battle of Clavijo and one of the gentlemen who shone most was Sancho Fernández de Tejada.