The Navarro-Aragonese king Alfonso the Battler founds a confraternity of knights in 1122 in Belchite to fight against the Almoravids; it is the start of the military orders in Aragon.

Years later, he will organize a branch of the Militia Christi of the Holy Land at Monreal del Campo.

Guy, Bishop of Lescar, is present for the foundation of the Confraternity of Belchite.

Guy had been forced to pay three thousand maravedíes to free himself, according to the contemporary Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris (I, §59), but according to another contemporary source, William of Malmesbury, he had been liberated by the miraculous intercession of the Virgin Mary and Saint Ann, to whom he had been praying.

This is an early connection between Marian devotion and the Reconquista.