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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had flourished with independence to the
close of the fifteenth century, small rem-
nant is left of the gracious fourteenth -
century Gothic of the days of'these Padillas.
Doubtless it bore the same strange and
lovely exotic flower as the convent palace
at Tordesillas and the Alcazar at Seville,
from the same cross-fertilization of Arab
and Iberian art. The town, founded after
Las Navas, lies in the wide plain, below
the hills where Calatrava guards the pass,
without a brook, without a snowy crest
to enliven the unchanging aspect of
things. Plenty of plateresque house-fronts
register the truth, that when the Order was
ruined the members of it were not. Before
that time another Garci Lopez de Padilla
had been Master, and, dying in 1487, been
buried in the choir of the great Cistercian
church at Calatrava; after that time D.
Gutierre de Padilla was to be Comendador
Mayor and endow a hospital so richly that
a convent was founded with the surplus,
about 1519, and to set a device above it of
a heart in a vulture’s claws, with the legend,
Gay colours, and the heart as you see. It
Almagro
AND MONOGRAPHS