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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must be left apart for a more convenient
season. Five years later the King gave
Zorita to the Order to defend it from the
Moors, that were too close by far.
Cuenca indeed was seemingly founded
by the Moors, for Romans and Visigoths
name it not, and like Burgos it begins
existence within the Reconquest. The
beautiful cathedral bears marks of English
invention and handiwork, in conception
and adornment, and enshrines the memory
of the loveliest of English queens in Castile,
Dona Leonor. All the tierra de Cuenca is
dotted with commanderies of the Orders.
Cuenca
from Ocana to Canete and from Requena
to Albarracin. Though the story of
Albarracin is as good as that of Zorita,
and prettier, it is less momentous for the
Order. And the exploits of D. Frey Fer-
nando are not yet all told.
From Calatrava he raided the Moors by
the Port of Muradal, that opens on the
richest of the Andalusian plain, and took
the Castle of Ferral: then as the knights
were moving, with booty and prisoners,
he let one prisoner loose to report his
Albarracin
AND MONOGRAPHS