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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.
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.
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.
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List of Grand Masters of the Order of Alcantara. Add languages. Add links. Article; ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Redirect page ...
Sancho de la Cerda, 1st Marquis of la Laguna, (in full, Spanish: Don Sancho de la Cerda y Portugal, primer marqués de la Laguna de Camero Viejo, caballero de la orden de Álcantara, comendador de la Moraleja y Ceclavín, embajador extraordinario en Flandes para dar el pésame del archiduque Alberto y a la infanta archiduquesa Isabel Clara Eugenia, Gentilhombre de Cámara de S.M., del Consejo ...
In 1218, they in turn ceded it to the order of San Julián de Pereiro, which changed its name to that of the military Order of Alcántara. In 1488, the order's council decided to build a new monastery in the city. Construction began in 1505 and lasted for most of the 16th century. The order's main architect, Pedro de Ybarra, worked on the design.
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