Alvaro Fernández de Valladares

Alvaro Fernández de Valladares was the Commandant of the Order of Santiago also known as "Military Order of St. James of the Sword" which was establish in the XII century in Leon-Castile, in honor of the Patron of Galicia (St. James the Greater) and subsecuently all of Spain, and he died fighting in the Reconquista Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212, in the battle that Christian troops gave a crushing defeat to the Muslims-Almohads and mark their decline in Spain.^[1] Alvaro Fernandez de Valladares married Leonor Varela^[2]

References

- http://www.xenealoxia.org/linaxes/galicia/1451-valladares-marquesado-de
- http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/vigo/2014/12/14/casa-valladares-siglo-xvii-riesgo-desaparicion/0003_201412V14C4999.htm
- Reader's Companion to Military History. Archived from the original on 26 February 2006. Retrieved 9 February 2006.
- (Spanish) Martín Alvira-Cabrer, Las Navas de Tolosa, 1212. Idea, liturgia y memoria de la batalla, Sílex, Madrid, 2012. ISBN 9788477377214

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