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Royal and Military Order of Alcántara, knight (Orden Real y Militar de Alcántara, caballero)
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Royal and Military Order of Alcántara, knight (Orden Real y Militar de Alcántara, caballero)
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Rhomboid (diamond) shaped silver-gilt edged white enamel medal with trophy of arms suspension; the face with a green enamel cross flory; the reverse plain; slight cracking and a very small loss of enamel to the upper tip; on replaced but correct ribbon. The Order of Alcántara was founded in 1176 at San Julian del Perál near Ciudad Real in south-central Spain. In 1499, King Ferdinand II of Aragón persuaded the Pope to assign the administration of the order to him and in the early 16th Century, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Aragón and Castile, annexed the three great military orders of Alcántara, Calatrava, and Santiago to the Spanish crown. The awarding of the Order as a noble honorific in modern times seems to have begun in about 1814 following the restoration of King Ferdinand VII. Following the Disestablishment (Desamortización) of 1855-1856, administration of the Order passed to the Corporación Nobiliara Honorifica. The Order was suppressed under the First Republic (1873), re-established in 1874 and abolished by the Second Republic on 29 April 1934. Criteria for admission to the Order were extremely selective and many knights were members of European royal families. This example was, until recently, in the Collection of the American Numismatic Society and was used by Robert Werlich in his definitive work ‘Orders and Decorations of All Nations’, published in 1974. An extremely rare order of impeccable provenance.

 
Royal and Military Order of Alcántara, knight (Orden Real y Militar de Alcántara, caballero)
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Royal and Military Order of Alcántara, knight (Orden Real y Militar de Alcántara, caballero)
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Royal and Military Order of Alcántara, knight (Orden Real y Militar de Alcántara, caballero)
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Royal and Military Order of Alcántara, knight (Orden Real y Militar de Alcántara, caballero)
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Royal and Military Order of Alcántara, knight (Orden Real y Militar de Alcántara, caballero)
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Royal and Military Order of Alcántara, knight (Orden Real y Militar de Alcántara, caballero)
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