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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Masters were Navarrese and the third was
of Aragon.
It is curious, but certainly true, that
while Calatrava had more power Santiago
had more glory: the lesser orders were rang-
ed under the former but the greatest and
most romantic figures belong in the latter.
Something of this may be due to the differ-
ence in the original organization: Santiago
was a brotherhood of gentlemen; Calatrava
started as another monkish association,
with a Rule and a Habit. Dress, food and
behaviour were strictly prescribed and
monastic celibacy enforced for those that
fought as well as those that prayed.
The abbot, seeing that the boundaries
of the city of Calatrava were great and the
land fertile and little peopled, set out to
look for a folk: he went back to Fitero and
fetched thence monks, leaving the old and
the sick behind, and fetched also sheep and
cattle and other movable wealth, and
twenty thousand men to people and
defend it all: Archbishop Roderick says
that he talked with men who had seen
them. In addition, the Archbishop D.
Calatrava’s
power,
Santiago’s
glory
How a
place was
peopled
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