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  • Thumbnail for Order of Alcántara
    Order of Alcántara (Leonese: Orde de Alcántara, Spanish: Orden de Alcántara), also called the Knights of St. Julian, was originally a military order of...
    14 KB (1,859 words) - 06:22, 26 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Order of Calatrava
    Raymond of Fitero, as a military branch of the Cistercian family. Rodrigo of Toledo describes the origins of the order: Calatrava is the Arabic name of a castle...
    24 KB (3,252 words) - 18:48, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Order of Saint Mary of Spain
    lines of empty staves, so the music of this ballad was not conserved. The mother headquarters of the order were founded in Cartagena, in a Cistercian convent...
    7 KB (768 words) - 10:35, 19 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Order of Montesa
    new order was dedicated to Our Lady, and based at Montesa. Pope John XXII approved it on 10 June 1317, and gave it the Cistercian rule. The order derived...
    3 KB (339 words) - 21:51, 17 June 2024
  • León and Castile (Order of Santiago, Order of Alcántara, and Order of Calatrava) and in the 14th century in the Crown of Aragon (Order of Montesa). These...
    60 KB (5,579 words) - 12:47, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Discalced Carmelites
    tradition of Carmel and the discalced reform of Peter of Alcantara, a controversial movement within Spanish Franciscanism, proposed to found a monastery of an...
    28 KB (1,432 words) - 04:49, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Order of Friars Minor
    as Bernardines, after Bernardino of Siena, although the term elsewhere refers rather to Cistercians. The "Order of Friars Minor" are commonly called...
    49 KB (5,159 words) - 16:09, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Morimond Abbey
    region of France. It was the fourth of the four great daughter abbeys of Cîteaux Abbey, of primary importance in the spread of the Cistercian Order, along...
    5 KB (574 words) - 21:01, 6 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spanish chivalry
    Spanish chivalry (category Medieval history of Spain)
    and drive out the Muslims. Order of Alcántara – also called the Knights of St. Julian, was originally a military order of León, founded in 1166 and confirmed...
    17 KB (2,200 words) - 15:41, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Suppression of the Society of Jesus
    Camaldolese, Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, Carmelites, Carthusians, Poor Clares, Order of Saint Benedict, Cistercians, Dominican Order (Order of Preachers)...
    48 KB (6,019 words) - 20:59, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Miguel I of Portugal
    southern Germany and married Princess Adelaide of Löwenstein. They settled in the former Cistercian monastery of Bronnbach, and raised seven children. His...
    52 KB (5,715 words) - 13:51, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francisco Antonio de Agurto, 1st Marquess of Gastañaga
    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...
    23 KB (3,154 words) - 12:58, 24 June 2024
  • Stephen, abbots of Cîteaux and founders of the Cistercian Order – Solemnity 30 January: Commemoration of the Deceased Superiors of the Order 1 February: Saint...
    76 KB (9,140 words) - 17:09, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for António, Prior of Crato
    decisively defeated in the Battle of Alcântara by the Spanish Habsburg armies led by Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba on 25 August. He then attempted...
    20 KB (2,195 words) - 03:09, 9 August 2024
  • Monasteries in Spain (category Lists of Christian monasteries in Spain)
    this time: Cistercian, military orders, Premonstratensian, Carthusians, Jeromes, Augustinians, Camaldolese and beggars. Monastic communities of various sizes...
    63 KB (9,387 words) - 14:18, 21 June 2024
  • Saint symbolism: Saints (I–P) (category Lists of saints)
    symbol of the martyrdom of Saint Jude the Apostle Juan Diego, wearing a tilmàtli Saint Joseph holding a rod of spikenard Cistercian religious habit Dominican...
    89 KB (1,289 words) - 02:35, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Monastery of Saint Dominic of Silos (the Old)
    Cluniac before becoming a nunnery of the Cistercian order. The convent underwent major rebuilding work in the second half of the 16th century, in which the...
    3 KB (294 words) - 02:58, 28 July 2024
  • Battle of Montgisard. 8 December. Saladin returns to Cairo with one-tenth of his army. (Date unknown). Alexander III recognizes the Order of Alcántara (Knights...
    196 KB (20,405 words) - 16:52, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ancient Regime of Spain
    Orders (such as the international Order of Malta and the private Orders of Aragon (Montesa), Castile (Santiago), Alcántara and Calatrava) and the Universities...
    96 KB (11,805 words) - 06:34, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Sacavém
    of the Indies and make navigation more in order to be there the summer to negotiate and dispatch without risk. [...]». After the battle of Alcántara,...
    136 KB (19,522 words) - 12:20, 26 August 2024
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