The Real Maestranza de Caballería de Valencia (Royal Cavalry Armory of Valencia) is a Spanish

Spain

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 maestranza de caballería

Maestranza de caballería

Maestranzas de caballería were noble guilds created in the modern age by the Spanish Crown, with the aim of giving the nobility practice in horsemanship and the use of weapons...

created in 1697. The first set of bylaws were approved seven years later, and currently the organization is governed by the latest draft of 1999. It has as its patron saint the Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception

Immaculate Conception

The Immaculate Conception of Mary is a dogma of the Roman Catholic Church, according to which the Virgin Mary was conceived without any stain of original sin. It is one of the four dogmata in Roman Catholic Mariology...

. Since the Real Cédula of 1760, it has enjoyed the same privileges as its sisters in Granada

Real Maestranza de Caballería de Granada

The Real Maestranza de Caballería de Granada is a Spanish maestranza de caballería created in 1686 under the advocacy of the patron saint Nuestra Señora del Triunfo . One year later it approved a set of bylaws, and since 1992 it has been governed by state law...

 and Sevilla

Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla

The Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla is a noble guild created in 1670 from the remnants of the preceding Cofradía de San Hermenegildo...

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