Salvatierra, Order of

Ideology | Defunct

1195 CE to 1216 CE

The Order of Calatrava is 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 is given by Pope Alexander III on September 26, 1164.

Scattered after the After the disastrous Battle of Alarcos, theCastilian knights erected a new bulwark on the plain of Salvatierra, taking from it the name Knights of Salvatierra, which they will keep for fourteen years, but Salvatierra itself falls to the Almohades in 1209..

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Salvatierra de Tormes Castilla y Leon Spain View →

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