Ordem de São Bento de Avis – Order of Avis
John I of Portugal (Lisbon, April 11, 1357 – Lisbon, 14 August 1433), was the tenth King of Portugal and the first of the Avis Dynasty, surnamed The Good Memory for your legacy. Illegitimate child (bastard) of King Pedro I, Master of the Order of Avis (based in Avis, Alentejo), as king following the crisis […]
By following the Benedictine rule, arises from the habit of the origin of Calatrava orders and Avis – white, with a flordelisada cross (red, in the case of the Order of Calatrava, and green, Avis). Similarly, the establishment of this rule prevented its members from marrying (unlike other military religious orders whose members were laymen). […]
The Kingdom of Portugal, founded in the first half of the twelfth century, was not only contemporary of the Crusades in the Middle, but led his own crusade war against the Moors – the so-called Christian Reconquista. In this context, born in the Iberian Peninsula autonomous religious orders, supranational, designed to expel Muslims from the […]
The order, as a monastic military order, was founded in emulation of such military orders as the Knights Templar, which existed in Portugal as early as 1128, and received a grant from Theresa, Countess of Portugal in the year of the Council of Troyes, which confirmed their early statutes. A native order of this kind sprang up in Portugal […]
