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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Alcaniz

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AND MONOGRAPHS

The next Master, being a Leonese of a
great name, D. Nuno Perez de Quinones,
was able to make advantageous adjust-
ments with the Order of Santiago. Some
of these have been named, and Ocana
was among the cities exchanged. He made
likewise a pact of brotherhood (herman-

obligation to observe the king’s pacts and
truces with the Moors.
Alcaniz remained the High Commandery
of Calatrava, in Aragon. Sometimes it
recognized the mother convent, sometimes
it set up for an independent order. What
remains of architecture in the beautiful
unvisited little town is mainly of the rich
late Gothic and delicate Italianate styles
that obtained likewise in the seats of the
Order in the south, at Daimiel and Alma-
gro. It fell to be an appanage of princes;
but Bourbons, having no pride or part in
the great inheritance to which they came,
forgot it. It lies still forgotten among the
hills.