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The municipality of Dosbarrios (2,201 inhabitants in 2018; 11,159 ha; municipal website) is located 60 km est of Toledo and 15 km south of Ocaña.
Dosbarrios was probably one of the 12 cities of the Olcades Celtriberian tribe. After the Christian reconquest, the town was granted in 1154 by Alfonso VII to Antolino Portaguerra; the castle of Dos Barrios (known at the time as Carabanchel, and now, as Monreale, standing, mostly ruined on a hill located south-west of the town) was transferred in 1177 by Alfonso VIII to the Order of Saint James. The re-settlement of the area started in 1192, as prescribed by a charter granted in 1192 by Master Rodrigo Yenéguez to Rodrigo Riquer and his brothers, Pedro and Don. In 1230, they sent a letter to Henry IV, informing the king they were re-settleing "Duos Barrios", that is, two boroughs, most probably located on each side of the Carábanos valley.
Ivan Sache, 9 September 2019
The flag of Dosbarrios is prescribed by an Order issued on 16 April 2001 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 27 April 2001 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 51, pp. 5,280-5,28 (text).
The flag is described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular, in proportions 2:3, composed of a celestial blue panel with the municipal coat of arms in the center.
The coat of arms of Dosbarrios is prescribed by an Order issued on 16 April 2001 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 27 April 2001 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 51, pp. 5,280-5,281 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:
Coat of arms: Azure a castle or masoned sable a fountain or and a crescent argent in pale superimposed with a Cross of Saint James gules fimbriated argent. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.
The arms are a "rehabilitation" of a design in unofficial use. They allude to a legend accounting for the formation of the town: there were once two boroughs ("dos barrios") separated by a fountain that was a bone of contention until only one the two rival vilages remained.
Lorenzana's Renaciones report htat in the 18th century, the town used arms divided per pale, first two keys recalling Bernardo, Archbishop of Toledo, and second, the Cross of Saint James.
[José Luis Ruz Márquez & Ventura Leblic García. Heraldica municipal de la Provincia de Toledo. 1983; Municipal website]
The Royal Academy of History rejected the proposed arms, which were deemed "so distant from heraldic good taste that approval is impossible". A complex symbolism was searched, "ignoring the genuine spirit of heraldry", assembling much heterogeneous charges, the cross-sword distinctive of the knights of the Military Order of Saint James (not of the proper Order), a half moon, a fountain and a tower, "arranged in a manner inappropriate for htese charges and without the least care for heraldic templates".
[Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia 197:2, 366-367. 2000]
Ivan Sache, 9 September 2019
