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  2. Order of Alcántara - Wikipedia

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    The Order of Trujillo was the Castilian branch of the order until 1195. To defend this conquest, on a border exposed to many assaults, the king resorted to military orders. The Middle Ages knew neither standing armies nor garrisons, a deficiency that the military orders supplied, combining as they did military training with monastic stability.

  3. List of Grand Masters of the Order of Alcantara - Wikipedia

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  4. Orders, decorations, and medals of Spain - Wikipedia

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    Religiously, the orders were organized by convents, with a main convent serving as the headquarters of the order. The Order of Santiago was based in Uclés, following the rifts of the order with the Leonese monarch Ferdinand II. The Order of Alcántara was based in the Extremaduran village that gave it its name.

  5. Pedro Antonio de Medrano y Albelda - Wikipedia

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    July 14, 1582, in Murillo de Rio Leza, La Rioja, Spain) and Mariana de Echauz, (b. on March 6, 1594, in Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain). His father Pedro de Medrano y Echauz was a knight of the Order of Alcántara, mayor of the Holy Brotherhood in Logroño in 1650 and ruler of Calahorra and its castle in the years 1673 and 1687.

  6. Nicolás de Ovando - Wikipedia

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    Frey Nicolás de Ovando (c. 1460 – 29 May 1511 [1] [2]) was a Spanish soldier from a noble family and a Knight of the Order of Alcántara, a military order of Spain.He was Governor of the Indies from 1502 until 1509, sent by the Spanish crown to investigate the administration of Francisco de Bobadilla and re-establish order.

  7. Category:Grand masters of the Order of Alcántara - Wikipedia

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  9. Military Order of Alcántara - Wikipedia

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