Alvaro Fernández de Valladares was the Commandant of the

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also known as "Military Order of St. James of the Sword" which was established in the 12th century in Leon-Castile, in honor of the Patron of

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(St. James the Greater) and subsequently all of Spain, and he died fighting in the Reconquista

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in 1212, in the battle that Christian troops gave a crushing defeat to the Muslims-Almohads and mark their decline in

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. Alvaro Fernandez de Valladares married Leonor Varela.

References

**https://web.archive.org/web/20150218025329/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. 1212 deaths Reconquista Year of birth missing {{Mil-bio-stub