Background

Atenco: liberty and justice refusal of prison authorities of the state of Mexico to which members of the Campaign for Freedom and Justice yesterday to visit Atenco political prisoners from the prison of Molino de Flores, in Texcoco, is made by a process other illustrations isolation faced by Atenco activists jailed after days of police violence and barbarism that occurred in the town of Mexico State in May 2006. The success of the First Crusade was quickly spread by the kingdoms of Europe. The same king of Aragon, Pedro I, in front of a large group of Hispanic men, were preparing to march to Palestine, where the pontiff reminded them of the obligation to defend its own land of the Almoravids.
The ideal cross-take them to King Pedro I to besiege Saragossa. Before leaving the siege in July of 1101, fortified with 5 kilometers of the place of Saragossa 'or vol Deus' (today, Juslibol) war cry crossfire.
The death of Pedro I in 1104, say that the sadness caused death to see his two sons in 1103, had his brother, was crowned King Alfonso I of Aragon and Navarre.
Alfonso I was not destined to be king, as was the second son of the second marriage of his father, King Sancho Ramirez of Roucy with Felicia. It is likely that in his youth to visit his maternal family on the other side of the Pyrenees, to have a strong friendship with those who would later become his allies on the battlefield as his cousin Rotrou II, Count of Perche, and Gaston de Bearn. Then also go back with friends and Castan Lope Garces Peregrine among others.
The ideal crossover Alfonso I lived as a child under his entire life and career as king. All companies of the monarch were to take Tortosa and Valencia, from where they could embark his troops to Jerusalem. This eagerness to take over 25,000 Km2 were reconquered during his reign, earning the nickname 'The Battler'.
Saragossa (Al-Bayda 'La Blanca, La augusta') key to achieving its objectives, the chapter December 18 1118, after the Pope had proclaimed his conquest as a new crusade at the Council of Toulouse (1118 ). This company contributed gentlemen arrived in the First Crusade, including Gaston of Bearn, who had participated in the conquest of Jerusalem. For their invaluable help, directing the construction of machines of war, was appointed governor of Saragossa by Alfonso I.
It is likely that in contacts with Gaston de Bearn, the bishop of Huesca and Lope Esteban Garces Pilgrim (added to his description of the Pilgrim after his stay in Jerusalem), the monarch was aware of the actions of the warrior monks in Palestine, as All had participated in the First Crusade.
Fascinated by these stories, the king did not hesitate to imitate these movements, like founding the order in his kingdom. In 1122, founded a Militia Christi, the Brotherhood of Belchite first military order for Spain, like the Militia of Jerusalem, according to a letter from Archbishop William of Aux, to subjugate the Saracens and opening a road from Jerusalem to the sea.
The brothers and their benefactors received benefits crusade. The Militia Christi had another base in the newly founded city of Montreal, founded two years later than the Belchite in 1124. Subsequently, he was assigned to the castro Belchite by hand of King Alfonso VII of Castile in 1136 , who called Caesaraugustana Militia and confirming Lopez Sanz as president of it. This order was incorporated into the Order of the Temple of Concordia Gerona in 1143.
Enemy dead in front of the Gaston of Bearn and Stephen Bishop on May 24th of 1130, the widow of Gaston, (such carnal cousin of Alfonso I), meets the last will of her husband: let the militia of the Temple, so that he could continue the reconquista, all land that was in Saragossa and Sauvelade. Lope Garces and Peregrine, along with his wife, had left part of his property after his death 'at the Altar of the Holy Sepulcher, "and" hospital of Jerusalem' in 1120.
Alfonso I, concerned about the succession, issued its first testament in the siege of Bayonne in October 1131, and made sign and comply with most of the kingdom Tenente. This testament was confirmed on September 4 of 1134, three days before his death.