Conquistador

APPENDIX ONE The Thirty Families

Rolfe

Domain: Napa, Lake County

Motto: “Carpe Diem et Omnia Mundi.”

Sigil: Red lion rampant on black background

Fitzmorton (twice)

Alan Fitzmorton—Domain: south Oakland to San Leandro

Rob Fitzmorton—Domain: Sonoma Valley

O’Brien

Domain: Marin County

Motto: “O’Brien Go Braugh!”

Sigil: winged harp

Colletta

Domain: Santa Clara Valley

Motto: “Silence.”

Sigil: Winged Thompson gun

Hughes

Domain: Healdsburg area

Pearlmutter

Domain: San Francisco peninsula to Palo Alto—“New Brooklyn”

Motto: “The Best You Can.”

Throckham

Domain: Petaluma

Filmer

Domain: Concord, Contra Costa

Tuke

Domain: Livermore-Amador, Contra Costa

Cooke

Domain: Orange County

Peyton

Domain: lower Santa Ynez valley

Hammon

Domain: Pleasanton, Contra Costa

Hottywood

Domain: southern Santa Clara valley

Ludwins

Domain: western Santa Maria valley

Carons

Domain: Central Santa Clara (between Collettas, Rob Fitzmortons)

Von Traupitz

Domain: Suisun Valley

Chumley

Domain: western Yolo county

Motto: “Who dares, wins!”

Versfeld

Domain: Santa Monica, east along Santa Monica foothills

Motto: “Look before you trek!”

Bauer

Domain: Carmel, Carmel Valley

Motto: “Death Holds No Repose.”

Stanislaus

Domain: southern Oxnard valley

Motto: “We Fight for Our Friends.”

Morrison

Domain: Lower Salinas

Motto: “Down Styphon!”

Sanders

Domain: Upper Salinas

Sulgrave

Domain: Russian River valley

Motto: “Fortune Is Bald Behind.”

Ball

Domain: Orange County

Motto: “Pick Your Man and Aim Low.”

Fairfield

Domain: San Leandro (south of Alan Fitzmortons)

Motto: “By This Right.”

Fest

Domain: Ventura; northern Oxnard

Motto: “Winter Isn’t Coming.”

Barklay

Domain: inland Santa Ynez valley, around Solvang

Motto: “How Shall One Fight a Hundred?”

Wyans

Domain: inland Santa Maria valley, around Sisquoc

Motto: “Westward the Course of Empire.”

Devereaux

Domain: Paso Robles area

Motto: “Pour Dieu et la Patrie.”

Batyushkov

Domain: Santa Cruz, Pajaro Valley

Motto: “Za Nas!”

Some Collaterals:

Di Montevarichi—collaterals of the Rob Fitzmorton line; relatives of his wife.

Tuscan nobility.