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
Citeaux
gets it
after
29 years
A few
facts
John of Toledo had ordered public preach-
ing and given great pardons to all that
went to defend Calatrava by their persons,
or gave arms or horse wherewith to buy
what was needed to defend the place.
They had there, then, the three things
necessary: tenantry, soldiery and clerks.
The incorporation with the Congregation
of Citeaux was effected only in 1187: that
it was ever done is surprising, but you
would never guess from the Histories that
King or Archbishop had occasion or
impulse for opposition.
Yet Abbot Raymond, when he came
back from Barcelona, governed the Order
with no superior spiritual or temporal but
the Roman Pontiff and the Chapter-
General of Citeaux. Thereafter, the power
was divided between the Master and the
Prior of the Convent of Calatrava; long
after the Orders were brought into subjec-
tion by the Catholic Kings they could
claim and did use the following tokens
and symbols of this high place:
The Prior is cura general of all persons
of the Order: uses Mitre and Pastoral
HISPANIC NOTES