Spanish Knights

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_chivalry

~The chivalric codes, were manners of proper military engagement, is believed to have arrived in the Iberian Peninsula during the 10th century, in the context of the Reconquista. This was when Frankish knights, who were willing to fight the Muslim invaders of Iberia prior to the Crusades, appeared to protect pilgrims flocking to what was believed to be the tomb of the apostle James in Galicia. St. James himself was known and celebrated in Christianity as ‘the slayer of the Moors’, and the discovery of his body by Christians has been considered an igniting factor of the Reconquista. The Reconquista, English Reconquest, was a series of campaigns by Christian states to recapture territory from the Moors, who had occupied most of the Iberian Peninsula in the early 8th century. A precursor to the Crusades.

Chivalry in medieval Spain cannot be understood outside of the context of the military orders of knighthood. Historians are conflicted as to whether Spanish knights were directed more by royalty (such as the king of Castile or the king of Aragon), or by the Papacy. There seems to be a consensus that the knights had obligations to both and an overarching allegiance to the Church, as both were in direct contact with knights (and often royalty were themselves, knights and crusaders)

~Knightly orders of Spain~

~Order of Calatrava – was the first military order founded in Castile, but the second to receive papal approval. The papal bull confirming the Order of Calatrava as a Militia was given by Pope Alexander III on 26 September 1164.

~Order of Santiago – (or the Order of Saint James of Compostela) was founded in the 12th century, and owes its name to the national patron of Spain, Santiago (St. James the Greater), under whose banner the Christians of Galicia and Asturias began in the 9th century to combat 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 by Pope Alexander III in 1177.

~Order of Montesa – was dedicated to Our Lady, and based at Montesa, Valencia. Pope John XXII approved it on 10 June 1317, and gave it the Cistercian rule.

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~Arias Pérez

~Arnau Mir de Tost

~Pere d'Artés

~C~

~Capítulo Noble de Fernando VI

~El Cid

~F~

~Fernando Yáñez

~G~

~Luis González Bravo

~Reverter de La Guardia

~L

~Antón de Luna

~O~

~Álvaro Obertos de Valeto

~P~

~Pelagius of Asturias

~Q~

~Suero de Quiñones

~R~

~Peter Paul Rubens

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~Juan de Urbieta