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Alcantara, Knights of

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Alcantara, Knights of

Military and monastic order of knights founded 1156 as the order of St Julian for the defence of Spain against the Moors. The order was approved 1177 by Pope Alexander III. In 1835 it was changed from an ecclesiastical to a court order.



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