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

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heresy: that also was in vain. Mioravel
withstood besiegers for nine months:
Monzon held out till 1309. Yangtias has
a story of the Castle of Tudela: the
seneshal, when he delivered it by inventory,
in 1308, to Hutier de Fontaines, reported:
“Two men to be arrested: as summoned,
here is D. Frey Domingo de Exexa,
Comendador of Ribaforada: as for D. Frey
Gil de Burueta, deceased, who is buried by
the porch where suits were heard, I doubt
if your words can be heard there.”
Philip the Fair and Clement V were both
notoriously greedy, says Villanueva, and
withstood the combined effort of the Kings
of Aragon, Castile and Portugal. The
King’s secret orders to his emissary were
to get the property and try for a new order:
he offered for that “his castle of Montesa,
very noble, apt and strong, situate in the
frontier of the Moors.” In 1317 John
XXII gave a Bull to institute a new Order
of Knighthood in the Castle of Montesa,
from knights of Calatrava. The Pope
wrote to the Master of Calatrava and the
Abbot of SS. Creus and under these the
The dead
will not
hear
Mariana
and
Villanueva
tell the
bitter truth
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