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
*V. p. 56
—either died out or were gathered in by
the Temple or the Hospital. Only that of
Calatrava was too deeply rooted and too
well sustained. Turning from the Medi-
terranean to the Atlantic shore, the same
process appears. So, far in the west, the
Order of Evora* was organized in 1147;
*V. p. 159
and that of Alcantara was anticipated and
then being established was supported in its
turn: and a donation of Alfonso IX gave
five towns in 1195 to the Order of Trujillo.*
The Order
Calatrava was a frontier-post, a castle
in the south. The Templars had thrown
it up, as too hard to hold; the King had
proffered it to any taker; two white monks
of Fitero had accepted: a cowled Cister-
cian, Frey Raimundo Sierra, ecclesiastic to
the marrow, and Frey Diego Velazquez, an
old soldier who had looked to end his days
inside a cloister, dozing in the sun, drowsing
under the psalms.
t
The foundation of the Order of Calatrava
of Calatrava
was on this wise:
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