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• Military Order of Montesa —     Military Order of Montesa     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Military Order of Montesa     This order was established in the Kingdom of Aragon to take the place of the Order of the Temple, of which it was in a certain sense the continuation. It… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Military order — Flag of the Knights Templar A military order is a Christian society of knights that was founded for crusading, i.e. propagating and/or defending the faith (originally Catholic, after the reformation sometimes Protestant), either in the Holy Land… …   Wikipedia

• Montesa — may refer to: the Spanish motorcycle manufacturer, now known as Montesa Honda; Order of Montesa, a Christian military order; Montesa, Valencia, a municipality in Spain. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an …   Wikipedia

• Order of Montesa — Cross of Saint George of Montesa The Order of Montesa (Arabic: Orden de Montesa‎, Catalan: Ordre de Montesa, Spanish: Orden de Montesa) is a Christian military order, territorially limited to the …   Wikipedia

• Order of Alcántara — Cross of the Order of Alcántara The Order of Alcántara (Spanish: Orden de Alcántara), also called the Knights of St. Julian[1], was originally a military order of León, founded in 1166 …   Wikipedia

• Order of Monfragüe — Ruins of the castle of Monfragüe, headquarters of the order The Order of Monfragüe[1] (Spanish: Orden de Monfragüe) was a Spanish military order founded at the castle of Monfragüe near Plasencia on …   Wikipedia

• Order of Mountjoy — Cross of Knights of Montjoie The Order of Mountjoy (French: Ordre de Montjoie, Spanish: Orden de Monte Gaudio) was a military order during the crusades. The period of the Crusades witnessed the rise of religious orders and C …   Wikipedia

• Order of Sant Jordi d'Alfama — Knights of St. George (in Catalan, Sant Jordi d Alfama) appear at different historical periods and in different countries as mutually independent bodies having nothing in common but the veneration of Saint George, the patron saint of knighthood.… …   Wikipedia

• The Military Orders —     The Military Orders     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Military Orders     Including under this term every kind of brotherhood of knights, secular as well as religious, historians of the military orders have enumerated as many as a hundred,… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• The Benedictine Order —     The Benedictine Order     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Benedictine Order     The Benedictine Order comprises monks living under the Rule of St. Benedict, and commonly known as black monks . The order will be considered in this article under… …   Catholic encyclopedia