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- ↑ de Atienza y Navajas, Julio (1959). Nobiliario español: diccionario heráldico de apellidos españoles y de títulos nobiliarios[Spanish Nobility: Heraldic Dictionary of Spanish Surnames and of Noble Titles] (in Spanish). Madrid: Madrid, Aguilar.
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