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
T1 years of
prosperity
“While
Jove’s
planet rises
yonder. . .
Barcelona knighted the Master. For
twenty-seven years the Order was rich and
active and then King Martin, in 1400, in-
corporated it with Montesa. The business
was done in Avignon, by John XXII, and
Montesa gave up the black cross and wore
S. George’s. The Master D. Berenguer
March took possession of what goods there
were in Aragon, Valencia and Catalonia.
Mallorca, and Sardinia—a small heritage
it was except in honour. Two Priorates
lasted on, S. George of Alfama and S.
George of Valencia. There had been ten
Masters in all, from Juan de Almenara,
elected in 1202, to Francisco Ripolles who
resigned in 1400 but lived until after 1414.
The ruined castle still shelters two or
three quaint memories: as that of the
May Day in 1608 when the Rector of the
parish church of Santiago in Tortosa was
jogging along on his mule quietly to visit
his uncle the parish priest of Vallfogdna de
Reus, and the pirates seized him and car-
ried him off. There in Algiers he died the
. . .silent,
next year, the poor Reverend D. Miguel
Africa!"
Bons. But in 1650 the Spanish galleys
HISPANIC NOTES