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

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1191, on the 21st of April, by Alfonso IX,
the Master being called D. Gomez, it
suffered an interregnum when the city was
lost to the Moors. In 1218 it was incor-
porated with Alcantara and Calatrava,
says the historian, which can only be inter-
preted to mean that, in the Scripture
phrase, “they of the household divided
the spoil.”
The Order
of S. George
The source
is Federico
Pastor y
Lluis
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The Order of S. George of Alfama was
founded by Peter I of Aragon, on Septem-
ber 24, 1201. The King gave the Wild of
Alfama, in the Diocese of Tortosa, to
found a castle and Order to hold back the
Hagarenes. The first Superior was a
Catalan knight, D. Frey Juan de Alme-
nara, who is said to have been in deacon’s
orders, the donation being to him and
Martin Vidal, and those who should suc-
ceed in the Order. There the knights
obeyed the Rule of S. Augustine for a
hundred and seventy-two years without
pontifical approbation, but they had
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