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

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IN SPAIN

and over their peculiar domain brooded the
great domes of cathedrals and collegiate
churches. Estremadura was their charge.
Under the third Master, D. Frey Nuno
Fernandez, Alcantara was taken and given
to Calatrava, to found another Order in
the Kingdom of Leon. Just so Santiago
already had two centres, one at S. Marcos
and the other near to Cuenca: it was an
unwieldy machine, and in 1218 the town
and the bridge and castle were given to
S. Julian in return for a nominal obedience,
afterwards thrown off. So the knights
called themselves by a new name and put a
pair of fetter-bolts under the pear tree.

The ,
domed
architecture
of the
region

t
The fourth Master, D. Frey Diego
Sanchez, translated the convent to the
Castle of Alcantara: now almost all is
destroyed but you can see the shape of
the church and some tombs of Masters
and other knights, and the thirty-eight
stone seats in the quire. For two hun-
dred and fifty years the Convent of the

The
convent
in the
sixteenth
century

AND MONOGRAPHS