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
Great
spirits
touched to
fine issues
the same affinity as the young king, his
cousin, D. Juan II, for men of letters and of
parts, and his correspondents and familiars
formed a little court comparable to that
which D. Alvaro de Luna graced, and
Micer Francisco Imperial, and the Marquis
of Santillana.
Meanwhile D. Luys served the King
well always, not only when under the
Infant D. Ferdinand he raided the Vega of
Granada, but also in the war with Aragon.
Again in 1431 he raided the south, though
Granada paid tribute to Castile: a letter
of the Moorish King’s was long preserved
at Calatrava as a memorial of his honour,
laid up in the precious casket in which
belike it came. He was a good friend of
the Master of Santiago, D. Alvaro de Luna,
and arranged with him the exchange of
certain places between the two orders.
The court
of John II
T
In his long rule of nearly forty years
becomes apparent the change that the
Order was undergoing. This is the fifteenth
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