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Tarseval». In reality, the Armorial Achievement that Portugal gave to the House of Tharsis was
engraved with the legend «Con.Tars et Val.» with wich was abbreviated the title of «Count of
Tharsis and Valter»; the subsequent direct lecture ended to agglutinate the syllables of the
abbreviation and to form such word «Tarseval» that identified the House of Tharsis in the next
centuries. The design of the blazon was the product of a hard negotiation between Odielion and
the Portuguese heralds, in which the new Count imposed his perspective appealing to
difference in the language and to a whimsical explanation of the requested emblems. Assuming
that in the ancient Lusitania no one remembered the House of Tharsis, they claimed the
printmaking of many familiar Symbols in the Armorial Achievement: and they went accepting,
in this manner, the presence of the rooster as «representations of the Holy Spirit in the left and
right sides of the Arms of Tharsis»; the barbel unicorn, chimerical animal, as the «Symbol of the
Demon that surrounds the umbilicus of the House of Tharsis», and the fortress of the
umbilicus as «equivalent to the ancient property of the House of Tharsis»; the rivers Odiel and
Tinto as «part of the country and necessary to define the scene»; etc.; and, finally, they included
the image of the Wise Sword as «expression of the Lady, in that time the Virgin of the Grotto,
to whom the Knights of Tharis were consecrated»; on the blade, the heralds engraved the
Warcry of the Lords of Tharsis: «Honor et Mortis». The next King of Castile and Leon, Sancho
IV, reintegrated the region of Huelva to the crown of Castile and installed as Lord to D. Juan
Mate de Luna, but he assimilated the Title and the Arms of the House of Tharsis to that
Kingdom. As we will see right now, the County of Tarseval, victim of a great mortality years
before, was feudalized by a Catalan Knight, who had given rights of his rising mediterranean
County in exchange of those further andalusian shires.

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