The helmets and helmets were born like defensive weapon, but they passed with the time to be ornamental pieces in the heraldry. Nowadays alone it is used like decoration in the heraldries of the noblemen, for not being entitled these to crown.

THE KING. It is made of worked gold, lined of gules, front position and with the open visor, without any grill. The crown consists on a circle of gold, enriched of beautiful stones, enhanced of eight fleurons, similar in form to the celery leaves, interpolated with eight small adorned tips of pearls in its ends; closed for up with eight loaded diadems of gold each one of pearls, united in the superior center, and cimadas of a globe, centered and crusader of a flat cross of gold.

PRINCE OF ASTURIAS. It is made also of worked gold, lined of gules, front position with the less open visor and without grills. Their crown consists of a circle of gold, enriched of beautiful stones, enhanced of eight fleurons, interpolated with eight tips adorned in its ends of pearls; closed for up with four loaded diadems of gold each one of pearls, also united in the superior center, and cimadas of a centered globe of gold, and crusader of a flat cross of gold.

INFANT. It is made of gold, lined of gules, front position with the less open visor that that of the king and without grills. Their crown consists on a hoop of gold enriched with beautiful stones, enhanced of eight fleurons, interpolated with eight tips adorned in its superior ends of pearls.

DUKE. It is made of nailed silver of gold, lined of gules, front position and with nine grills of gold in the visor. The crown consists on a hoop of gold enriched with beautiful stones, enhanced of eight fleurons, interpolated with eight tips of gold.

MARK. It is made of nailed silver of gold, lined of gules, front position and with seven grills of gold in their visor. Their crown consists on a hoop of enriched gold of beautiful stones, enhanced of four fleurons, interpolated of twelve finished off tips those of the center of three pearls.

COUNT. It is made of nailed silver of gold, lined of gules, arbitrated toward the skillful side and with seven grills in the visor. The crown consists on a circle of enriched gold of beautiful stones, enhanced of ten eight tips finished off in its end of other so many pearls and without intermediate fleurons.

VISCOUNT. As the previous one it is made of nailed silver of gold, lined of gules, arbitrated toward the skillful side and with seven grills in their visor. Their crown is a circle of enriched gold of beautiful stones, enhanced of four tips with big pearls in its end; and interpolated of other so many tips, these with smaller pearls.

BARON. It is made of silver, nailed of gold, lined of gules, arbitrated toward the skillful one and with five grills in the visor. The crown consists on a circle of gold enriched in beautiful stones, surrounded of eight returned by a diadem of pearls, and adorned in its superior part by eight thick pearls.

MISTER. It is of silver like the previous one, nailed of gold, lined of gules, arbitrated toward the skillful one and with five grills in their visor. Their crown is a circle of gold enriched with beautiful and surrounded stones of a simple diadem of pearls.

HIDALGO. That of the old noblemen is made of refined steel, profile position toward the skillful side, lined of gules and with three grills. They don't possess crown; and in their defect, they carry multicolored feathers, always corresponding to the weapons of their shield.

SQUIRE. The helmet of the squires, also used by those recently ennobled ones, it is made of iron, profile position toward the skillful side, lined of gules, with the open visor but without any grill. For not using crown, like in the previous case, they carry multicolored feathers, corresponding to the weapons of the shield.

BASTARD. The bastard also stamped their shields with the corresponding helmet; similar in their characteristics to the previous of the squires and recent noblemen, it differs of these for their profile placement, but toward the sinister side as mark of their bastard condition.

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