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7 unusual facts about Order of Santiago


Joaquín de Roncali, 1st Marquis of Roncali

Roncali was the eldest son of Agustín de Roncali y Martínez de Murcia, Knight of Santiago, and his wife María del Carmen Ceruti y Feit.

Milites

Other usages include the "Milites Templi", referring to the Knights Templar or Milites Sancti Jacobi (Order of Santiago).

Order of Saint James

Order of Santiago, also known as the Military Order of Santiago, a catholic chivalric order and monarchical order founded in Castile

Order of Santiago

He had had 39 successors, among them several Spanish Infantes, when, in 1499, Ferdinand the Catholic induced the pope to assign to him the administration of the order.

Under Charles V, Pope Adrian VI annexed to the crown of Spain the three great military orders (Alcántara, Calatrava, and Santiago) with hereditary transmission even in the female line (1522).

Princess Alice Bank

In gratitude for the discovery, King Carlos awarded the prince with the "grand collar" of the Order of Santiago, having already granted in 1894 to Captain Henry Carr the honorific degree of master of the Order of St. Benedict.

Valentin de Foronda

He taught at the Basque Institutional School, known as Seminario de Vergara, was promoted to Knight of the Military Order of Santiago in 1793, a Knight of the Order of Carlos III in 1801 and was later a member of the American Philosophical Society.


Anthonie Schetz

Until 1629 he was Spain's military governor of 's-Hertogenbosch, captain of a cavalry regiment and a knight of the order of Santiago.

Catherine of Lancaster

Catherine of Castile (1403/1406–1439), who wed as his first wife in 1420 Henry of Aragon, 4th Count of Alburquerque, 32nd Count of Ampurias and 35th Master of the Order of Santiago (1400-Calatayud, 1445), without issue

Cristóbal de Sandoval, Duke of Uceda

Cristóbal Gómez de Sandoval-Rojas y de la Cerda, known as the duque de Uceda (Duke of Uceda), but also titled second marquis of Cea, fifth marquis of Denia, and knight of the order of Santiago (1581 – Alcalá de Henares, 31 May 1624) was the official minister of state, also known as the valido or valued one, for King Philip III of Spain.

Elmar Oliveira

Other honors include an honorary doctorate from Binghamton University and the Order of Santiago, Portugal’s highest civilian honor.

Juan Alonso Pimentel de Herrera, 5th Duke of Benavente

Juan Alonso Pimentel de Herrera (died Benavente, Spain on 7 January 1621) was a Knight of the Order of Santiago, Grandee of Spain, 5th Duke of Benavente at the death without issue of the 4th Duke, as he was the second son of the 3rd Duke, 8th Count of Mayorga, 3rd Count of Villalón, President of the Council of Italy, 15th Viceroy of Valencia, 25th Viceroy of Naples.

Juan Buenaventura de Borja y Armendía

He was conferred with the honor of being a Knight of the Order of Santiago by royal warrant at the city of Lerma on 22 May 1610.

Spanish chivalry

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 back the Muslims of the Iberian Peninsula.


see also

García Álvarez

Garci Álvarez de Toledo (died 1370), Castilian grand master of the Order of Santiago

George Collingridge

His publication of The Discovery of Australia in 1895 earned him accolade as a "genius" and as "an authority on geographical matters" from members of the Royal Geographical Society as well as foreign honours: in 1908 he was created a Knight Commander of the Order of Santiago by the King of Portugal.

Guillén de Castro y Bellvis

At one time a captain of the coastguard, at another the protégé of Benavente, viceroy of Naples, who appointed him governor of Scigliano, patronized by Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna and Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Castro was nominated a knight of the order of Santiago in 1623.