Order of Saint Michael of the Wing

Order of Saint Michael of the Wing
Cross symbol of the order.
Award of former Royal House of Portugal
Type	Dynastic order/ "Institution of chivalric character"
Royal house	House of Braganza
Religious affiliation	Roman Catholic
Ribbon	Red
Motto	Quis ut Deus
Patron Saint	Nuno de Santa Maria Alvares Pereira
Sovereign and Grand Master	Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza
Statistics
Established	1171 Revived 1828/1848 Revived 1981/1986/2001
Precedence
Next (higher)	Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa
Next (lower)	None
Same	Order of Saint Isabel
Ribbon of the order

The Royal Equestrian and Military Order of Saint Michael of the Wing (Latin: Ordo equitum Sancte Michaelis sive de Ala, Portuguese: Real Ordem Equestre e Militar de São Miguel da Ala), also called the Order of Saint Michael of the Wing, is a Portuguese Roman Catholic dynastic order that is believed to have been founded in 1147 in the Alcobaça Monastery in Alcobaça, Portugal, by King Afonso I of Portugal, in commemoration of the Conquest of Santarém from the Moors in 1147. The name was chosen in honour of the military saint archangel Michael, who assisted in the victory in the shape of a wing in the sky.

Its medieval history including claims of recognition in 1171 by Pope Alexander III, relies heavily on documentation from the 16th to the 18th century, it is classified by the International Commission on Orders of Chivalry as an "Institution of chivalric character" that was founded as a chivalric order subsequently "revived by the dynastic successor of the founding authority" (2004). The knights were under the jurisdiction of the Abbot of the Cistercian Alcobaça Monastery, and recited the same prayers as its lay brothers along with other military orders during the Reconquista.