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

IN SPAIN
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it can hardly be so. Already, in his turn,
Briz Martinez had said that Aragonese
knights before going to war went up to
S. Juan de la Pena and called themselves
Knights of S. John, and that they were
installed in Monreal, the brown hill that
rears above the river Aragon, between
Tiermas and Pampeluna. Briz Martinez
was abbot of S. Juan de la Pena and knew
the archives there; he is likely to have
known the truth.
At the conquest of Daroca there was a
Milicia called after S. Saviour: at Teruel
of the Rock
was one called after the Redeemer,* joined
to the Temple in 1296. At a meeting of
prelates in Gerona, called by Ramiro IV
and presided over by the Cardinal-legate
Guido, on the 27th of November, 1143,
the King created a new order of soldiery
to fight against the Moors in imitation of
that of the Temple, and subject to the
Master of that. The short-lived Order of
*V. p. 15S
Monte Gaudio* passed from the west to the
east and back again. But all these Ara-
gonese orders—and more are known, and
others, doubtless, there were, now unknown
*V. p. 155
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