Order of Saint James Backpack

Officially founded in the year of our Lord, 1151, however, according to tradition, after the battle of Clavijo, in the year 844, the Field Marshal Sancho Martínez de Tejada along with thirteen knights requested permission from King Ramiro to constitute an military chivalric order of dedicated to Saint James the Great, however, some historians cast doubt on these claims, and maintain that the first written record appeared in the Monastery of Uclés, residence of the Grand Master of Saint James (Santiago), showing the statutes of Christian brotherhood and reverence of the Apostle. The truth is that the devotion to the Apostle James flourished and so did the pilgrimage of all of Christendom to the tomb of the Apostle in Compostela, the monks of nearby Monasteries become the protectors of the pilgrims, from robbers and Arabs. As proof of this is the Privilege granted to the Convent of Sancti Spiritus of Salamanca, dated November 15, 1030, in which King Fernando I of Castile mentions the K