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

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trava rich and much honoured. Then,
being very old, he resigned the Mastership,
though he seems to have used the title to
the close of his life. When that was, no
one knows.
His successor was less thrifty but in the
end no less successful: D. Martin Perez
de Siones of Tarazona. The town lies in
Aragon. This may have accounted for
some of his difficulties, but it brought
advantage to the Order. Early in his ad-
ministration there was a sort of mutiny:
the Master was raiding Moreria, both
northward and southward, when the Moors
captured the castle of Almodovar; he
pursued them as soon as he could, captured
more than two hundred, and killed every
one. The knights were indignant, for
these prisoners might have been sold and
thus have paid the expenses of the war,
or they might have been exchanged for
Christian captives. Furthermore, the loot
was not divided to their liking, and they
wrote up to D. Diego Garcia, still living
at Calatrava, who suggested that they
should depose the present Master. His
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