According to the earliest chronicles he refused the title of king and refused to wear a crown citing "I will not wear a crown of gold were my Lord wore a crown of thorns”
they curl their lips and jeer
but finally the effort proved to be too complicated
After the conquest of the island of Rhodes
and at the head of itsMaster
Order of Saint James Color:Dark Navy According to the earliest chroniclesOfficially founded in the year of our Lord, 1151, however, according to tradition, after the battle of Clavijo, in the year 844, the Field Marshal Sancho Martnez de Tejada along with thirteen knights requested permission from King Ramiro to constitute an military chivalric order of dedicated to Saint James the Great, however, some historians cast doubt on these claims, and maintain that the first written record appeared in the Monastery of Ucls,