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

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one of the lineage and bando of Bejar, and
that meant more than four thousand men
and women.
The region having at the moment no
Moors, the Order continued to fight the
Portuguese. The following Master was a
Gallegan, and he was succeeded by his
nephew whom he had brought up in his
own house and that of a cousin (also
Master): a good training for a great office.
A number of the castles of their Orders
along the frontier had been given to Por-
tugal, among them S. Julian de Pereyre:
it was said that the Order of Avis held this
in some sort of subjection to Alcantara,
but that has been denied. The Bridge of
Alcantara was taken by the Prince Dom
Joam and the Portuguese soldiery of King
Dionis: the young Master came back hot-
foot from Valladolid with a royal order for
men, and on that collected all he could in
Plasencia and sent to Caceres for more.
For three months a knight called Garci
Gutierrez held the bridge from the bridge-
tower—such men’s names should not be
forgotten—then the Master took it by
War
essential
to health
How Garci
Gutierrez
held the
bridge
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