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

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the Moors with. Characteristically, they
preferred to die, and spent their lives to
avenge themselves on the King. The
Master of Santiago, a Gallegan, died there
too: and the King came out of the fight
with nothing but the bridle in his hand,
says the historian of the Arabs. He
wanted rather to die than go back to Toledo
shamed, but his people pulled him out and
forced him away. The Christians made a
stand at a pass between La Zarzuela and
Darazutan; they all were killed or taken.
Those that fled got into the castle of
Guadalherza—where the hospice was-
with the Master escorting and defending
the King; others got to Calatrava; others,
among them the Counts of Haro and of
Lara, shut themselves up in the castle of
Alarcos, where the Moors laid siege and
took it by storm. Some books, however,
say that Lope de Haro fled, with the King’s
flag, to the castle of Alarcos, leaving his
lord in the battle, and afterwards surren-
dered the castle to the Moors: and there
are uglier stories yet of his breaking a
solemn pledge and escaping after the sur-
Proof by
dying
Was Lope
de Haro a
traitor?
AND MONOGRAPHS