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

IN SPAIN
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gave out that the King had married her,
and that her sons were legitimate, and said
what she liked of the young King D. Peter.
When her relatives pointed out that the
King D. Alfonso when he knew her was
already married, she said quite improper
things that the Queen and D. Peter heard:
they threatened the cabal and the gentry
scattered. Then the King sent, summon-
ing the cabal to appear either at the Cortes
in Seville or at the siege of Gibraltar.
To this the Master replied that while
he had no intention of changing the king-
dom, nor had ever had, nor of doing any-
thing in disservice of the King, yet, as his
life was in danger, and because he was
blameless, he purposed defending himself
in the towns and lands of the Order. The
King sequestered the rents and first-fruits,
and ordered the knights to obey the Master
of Calatrava, and Guzman came back to
obedience. He promised to serve no other
King or Infant, and put all the castles
except Alcantara in the hands of knights
whom the King designated, and thereafter
served King Peter loyally and faithfully
A Guzman
succeeds
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