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

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The
Master
Ruy
Vazquez

MILITARY ORDERS

storm and killed the knight and those with
him: “Mori el hombre y no su nombre.”
This Master, bred up for the office,
was called D. Ruy Vazquez: his adventures
were only beginning. In 1318 a conspiracy
broke out against constituted authority,
that is against himself, the C omendado r
Mayor and the Clavero. A charge was laid
against them before D. Garcia Lopez de
Padilla, the Master of Calatrava, that they
evilly-entreated the freyles, knights and
clerks of the convent. Padilla, as father
and reformer of the Order, came in state,
with two Cistercian abbots, him of Valde-
yglesias and him of Valparaiso. The three
accused fortified themselves in the Convent
but others had gone out and taken a city
gate, and these admitted the Master of
Calatrava: and the case was called. The
accused, who represented the entire govern-
ment, denied the jurisdiction of Calatrava:
if knights were wronged they might appeal
to Rome, for Calatrava had lost all rights
by failing in obligations, and especially in
not summoning the Master of Pereyre and
Alcantara for the elections of the Master

HISPANIC NOTES