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
of politician and end in the full glory of
upholding a splendid and a foredoomed
cause.
D. Nuno
D. Nuno Chamiso fought in the Battle
Chamiso
of Salada, though the Poem says no more
than that Alcantara and Calatrava fought
well: and he was in the siege of Algeciras.
Later, carrying provisions to besieged
Christians on the other side of the river,
and fording it safely as he went, he was
caught by the tide on the return, and
drowned. At the siege as they lay, the
knights elected the Keeper, D. Per Alfonso
Pantoja: he was wrounded there, and anon
The Black
he died. His death is hardly noticed in
Death
the terrible mortality before that scorching
city, to which the Black Death came
earliest, in ships from the east perhaps.
T
His successor was a Guzman, a cousin
of Dona Leonor. At the death of D.
Alfonso he stayed with her in Medina
Sidonia. She gathered her friends there,
HISPANIC NOTES