The Order of Santa Maria d' España or Order of Star.

Create by Alphonse X the wise one (1221 - king de Castille and León in 1252 - 1284), with Cartagena in 1272, its vocation military has to be exerted on the seas. It is the first order of the kind before the Ordre of Malta and the Ordre Tuscan of San Stefano.

The naval defeat of Algeciras in 1279, blocks Net its rise. The order is removed in 1281 and amalgamates with the Ordre of Santiago of the Sword.