Lara Family Crest

Count Don Nuño González de Lara, accompanied King Don Garcia in the battle of Tafalla, on 1043. His grandson and successor Don Nuño González de Lara, served with distinction and unblemished loyalty to King Don Alfonso VI, was governor of Lara, Mena and Asturias; had the glory of being sent by the king to Seville to transport to Leon the body of the glorious Saint Isidro.

The Count Don Pedro Gonzalez de Lara, says Salazar, who was one of the greatest princes Spain met in his time, and after alluding to the pretensions of the Count, who aspired to marry the Queen Urraca, and his rival Count Don Gomez Gonzalez, who died in the Battle of Camp in Spain, fought by the King of Aragon against Urraca troops commanded by the mentioned counts.

Its arms: In red field, two boilers, gold and black checkered, placed vertically.

Volume III, page 10, Num. 1130
Madrid, 1857.