Here’s the start of the Luna line. I adjusted dates going up the tree.
Bacalla de Luna, I señor de Luna
Since we’re talking about imagery, this is from the site for the current day Town of Luna https://luna.es/heraldica/
Google translate
In 1091, Don Bacalla participated in the conquest of the ancient Gallícolis, which was renamed Luna since, according to legend, the assault was at night and to the eyes of the Christians the population seemed to be inside the star and the glare of its light frightened the defenders by making them look like a ghostly army.
Later, he also participated in the Battle of Alcoraz (1096), which led to the capture of Huesca. King Sancho Ramírez gave Luna to Don Bacalla, who adopted the name as his family name.
When heraldic emblems were developed, the Luna family adopted as their coat of arms or blazon for their lineage a shield with a gules field and a silver crescent cross, and the shield's tip also silver. Overall, it is simple, with a symbolism that identifies the family's origins and evokes its history:
Gules = red, comes from the coat of arms of Navarre, where it symbolizes the bloody defeat of the Moors. On the Luna coat of arms, it identifies the Navarrese origin of Don Bacalla, founder of the family.
reversed crescent = defeated crescent moon or half moon with points down represents the defeated Muslim symbol, a graphic expression of victory over the infidel.
Silver = The color of the metal symbolizes the white of the moon that illuminated the attackers during the night of victory. The point = This shape at the bottom, an honorable part of the shield, also identifies Don Bacalla's origins, as it belongs to Navarrese heraldry, and can be interpreted as the overcoming of difficulties.
The sons of Don Bacalla who founded the three branches of the family were Don Lope Ferrench de Luna, Don Martín de Luna and Don Lope de Luna.
The original coat of arms of the Luna family would endure in the Martínez de Luna branch.
Don Pedro Martínez de Luna, Pope Luna, belonged to the Martínez de Luna branch, the Illueca and Gotor line.
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