The revolutionary rabble of Paris, so called by the Royalists because they wore trousers instead of the knee-breeches affected by the upper classes. The word means literally “without breeches.”
Santa Hermandad.
See Hermandad.
Santa Junta.
A league of the Castilian cities in 1520, under Juan de Padilla and Ferdinand de Avalos, which refused to recognize the authority of Adrian Boyens, the Fleming appointed Regent by Charles V. Charles offered certain concessions, which were refused, and a civil war resulted, which ended in the total defeat of the Junta in 1521, though Toledo held out for another year. This rising is also known as the Revolt of the Communeros.
Santiago de Compostella, Order of.
A Spanish order of religious chivalry founded in 1170, and approved by Papal Bull in 1175. Its members were vowed to obedience, community of goods and conjugal chastity, and also to perpetual war against the Mussulman.
Santiago, Treaty of.
A treaty between Chile and Bolivia, concluded in 1866, delimiting the frontier between the two States.