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
Elect by the world as a warrior from
youth,
Elect as the Master by valour unmoved,
Elect by all men for his virtue approved,
Known for his constancy, known for
his truth. . . .
Aragon
intrudes
again
r
D. Alfonso of Aragon and Navarre was
a half-brother of Ferdinand the Catholic.
He was not professed until after he was
elected—which shows, if anything, a canny
mind and a shameless. In the war which
followed he backed his father against his
uncle of Castile: the latter, conquering,
called a new election, in which D. Juan
Ramirez the Comendador Mayor again
received some votes but the majority went
to D. Pedro Giron. This meant a schism
into three, and two intrusions, any way
you counted. Finally the Comendador
accepted a pension—paid part by the Mas-
ter and part by the King—and retired.
D. Alfonso held Aragon for ten years and
HISPANIC NOTES