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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men of Toledo shut the gates and reviled
them, and called them disloyal, and trait-
ors, and excommunicate. And the Kings,
having staked and won for Christendom,
went home.”
But there is no discharge in this war.
In September of that year three Moorish
Kings attacked all that had just been won,
and the Castilian forces were mustered and
put them to rout and had rich loot. By
the next February the King was out again.
In the following year, 1213, two thousand
Christians were lost, in the loss of a single
stronghold. Here falls the cold winter and
bad harvest already cited. So the King
of Castile and the King of Leon made
peace and made a pact to march against
the Moors each on his own frontier, and
the King of Leon borrowed a commander,
took Alcantara, tried for Caceres but
failed, and went home again. The King
of Castile, who was besieging Baeza, asked
him to execute a diversion in the south, but
no. In the autumn, however, Alfonso had
taken a town, and had killed many Moors
and many Mooresses, and had driven off
Laus Deo
AND MONOGRAPHS