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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ended in the west-country, along the
Roman road that was called Camino de
Plata, and the great feats, the sudden
incidents, the play of motives belong all
to border and ballad stuff.

A ballad-
literature
that lacked
its blind
beggars

♦
The Order of Monte Gaudio has been
mentioned twice already, and some account
must now be indicated of that strange off-
shoot from Santiago whereof a slip was
planted in Aragon and flourished for a
while only to be grafted into the tree of the
Temple; and how, from the overthrown
stock in the west, a new branch grew up and
was cut down at last.
One of the original ruffianly founders
of the Order of Santiago (thus the tale
opens) was a count of Sarria, Rodrigo
Alvarez by name, a nephew, cousin and
great-grandson of kings. In one of his
adventures he had burned the Church of
S. Mary at Toral—which I take to be
Tor al de los Vados on the Way of S. James,

The Lesser
Orders
Monte
Gaudio

AND MONOGRAPHS