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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.
In 1217 it was given to the military order of Calatrava. They, however, considered it too difficult to defend, and thus the following year they were replaced by the Order of San Julian de Pereiro, a military order created in 1156 which had its headquarters on the Rio Cora and which later took its name from Alcántara, where it was established.
The Orden Civil de la Solidaridad Social (Civil Order of Social Solidarity), established in 1988 to replace the old 'Orden de Beneficencia' (Order of Charity) with the aim of “recognizing persons or organizations, both Spanish and foreign having distinguished themselves in promoting or performing activities related to social welfare”.
Pages in category "Knights of the Order of Alcántara" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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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.
Portrait of Francisco Antonio de Agurto by the engraver Richard Collin. Francisco Antonio de Agurto y Salcedo Medrano Zúñiga, 1st Marquess of Gastañaga (1640 – 2 November 1702) was a Spanish nobleman, Knight of the Order of Alcantara, of His Majesty's Supreme War Council, General Field Marshal of the Netherlands, Governor and Captain General of the Spanish Netherlands and Viceroy of ...
Knights of the Order of Alcántara (37 P) Pages in category "Order of Alcántara" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.