King, Georgiana Goddard: A brief account of the military orders in Spain (New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1921)

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MILITARY ORDERS
ruined, by the determination and power
of the King of France and a French Pope
his creature, their wealth in Spain was
saved in part and assigned for the founda-
tion of other Orders.
of the
The Order of S. John of Jerusalem has a
Hospital
like story and one almost contemporary.
The King D. Peter the Catholic of Aragon
loved the Order well, and was buried at
Sijena in the Convent of Comendadores
de S. Juan de Jerusalen,- where he had been
armed a knight. Cervera was another
double monastery of the Hospital ruled by
the Comendadora: in 1806 the good Vil-
lanueva could still trace the ruins of a
circular church there. But all the while
there were other orders springing up under
the shadow of these: perhaps the earliest
that of the freyles or Knightly Brethren
of the Palms who assisted Alfonso el
Batallador in 1110, their master being
of the
called D. Garcia Sanchez. The learned
Palms
and loyal historian, Pedro Abarca, would
see in these the Order of Santiago, present
in the world and doing God’s service sixty -
five years before any Bull endorses them:
HISPANIC NOTES