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
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selves. A series of schisms and intrusions
followed, very like what was happening in
the Papacy. D. Juan Nunez de Prado was
Captain General of King Peter’s in the
whole diocese of Jaen, harrying the Moors
of Granada, but he rebuked the King for
leaving Blanche of Bourbon and living with
Doha Maria, and quarrelled with him, and
in consequence withdrew to Calatrava, and
then fled to Aragon. Doha Maria bore
herself well in her hard place, and cherished
no personal griefs, but he remembered the
outrages he had done on her kinsman, the
Master, and he put no trust in King Peter
of Aragon. With a safe-conduct he came
back and was reconciled, but not long after
in Almagro they took him at table. The
town did not rise nor did the knights
protest. The King called for a chapter
in Almagro; there he was tried and deposed
and D. Diego Garcia de Padilla elected in
his stead; he was removed to a castle of
the Order and after a few days beheaded.
Almagro was the court of the Masters of
Calatrava, and they had their magisterial
palaces there: but where wealth and ease
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