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

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MILITARY ORDERS
Of him
the Com-
poslellana
tells
3,
the Order
of Monte
Gaudio
V. p.155
of Calatrava, nor can any goods of the order
be alienated without consent: given in
Ciudad Rodrigo 1218.
The ninth Master, D. Frey Gonzalo
Yanez, was a Gallegan, the son of Joan
Arias de Noboa, and he had married a
daughter of Count Fernan Perez de Traba
—which means that he could call up all
the west. The convent of S. Felices being
founded for nuns, near Amaya, the Master
had the nomination of the abbess, and
neither party could receive a nun without
the other’s consent. The convent in a
later age claimed the sepulchres of the
Infant D. Philip and Dona Leonor de
Castro, and their son: but this is impossi-
ble; their tombs stand yet in the Tem-
plar’s church of Villasirga and their bodies
yet rest within the car ven tombs.
In 1221 King Ferdinand III gave to the
Master the Castle of Monfrac of the Order
and Knights of Monfrac called also Mon-
te Gaudio, which had fallen into much
diminution: a bull of Alexander III, given
in 1180, names many castles thereto apper-
taining both in the Holy Land and in
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