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

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and a pension, and the estate of irreme-
diable celibacy which was worse, so he too
submitted to King Ferdinand and gained
Trujillo, and set knights and clerks of his
order there. There was already a Convent
V.pp.8,159
and Order of Freyles Trujilleses, as noted
earlier, but they were another body: they
may, however, have merged at this time
with that of Alcantara. This Master died
in 1234.
The next Master retook Medellin and
The Order
secured it for the Order, also Elges which is
under King
a village of Coria, and other places. When
the Saint
King Ferdinand came down from Bena-
vente to Cordova he passed by Alcantara
and ordered the Master to follow, who,
within four days, came on with six hundred
horse and two thousand of foot. That
was a test of efficiency. The King gave
them a church in Cordova; then they went
with D. Alfonso, King Ferdinand’s heir,
into Murcia, and took and peopled the
town they called Alcantarilla; they served
at the taking of Seville and got town-
and King
houses and villages. Finally, after twenty
Alfonso the
years of such knightly service, this Master
Sage
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