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

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demolished the castle by cannon-fire to
keep the French from taking it.
The Hospice lay (so far as this writer
can make out) somewhat up-hill and
inland from the present station of Hospi-
talet. In 1310 Queen Blanche of Anjou,
the second wife of D. Jaime II the Just,
being on her way from Barcelona to
Valencia to attend the siege of Almeria,
was struck by the need of Christian service
there. The rocky headlands are both steep
and wild, even to this day, and before
steam bored the rocks and built up the
mountain-flanks, where today the trains
fleet and shriek along the land’s edge the
ways were very lonely. Pilgrims and
travellers had cause to bless her name.
She died not long after in Barcelona, but
she made a provision in her will for the
work, and the King carried it on, and the
Hospice was finished in 1343 by their son,
the Infant D. Pedro of Aragon, count of
Ribagorza, for whose sake, and because of
his arms over the door into the keep, it
was called Hospitalet del Infante. It
played a good part in the revolution of
The
Hospice
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