History
The Order of Saint James began in Castile-León in circa 1170. The order was later confirmed in Portugal in 1172 by Pope Alexander III's legate Cardinal Hyacinthus of Acardo, as an Order of knights for the protection of pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia.
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