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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.
Habit of the Order of Santiago Pedro Antonio de Medrano y Albelda (December 14, 1642 – December 1721) [ 1 ] was a Knight of the Order of Alcántara , a nobleman from the House of Medrano in La Rioja , and the regent of the Royal Council of Navarre on May 9, 1702, during the reign of Philip V of Spain .
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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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