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
At the
Battle of
Las Navas
and after
Alfonso IX,
with all his
mournful
pride
were two Masters again, and Ucles being
left nearly empty, the Moors captured it.
King Alfonso IX meanwhile cleared his
kingdom of Castilians and seized castles.
In 1213, however, at the time of the joint
expedition which the Toledan Annalist
records, when Templars, Calatrava and
Santiago all were mustered, D. Nuno de
Andrada rode with him as lieutenant of
the Master, and all those who were natives
of Galicia or Leon or held encomiendas
there. They helped in taking Alcantara
and Montanches, and recovered Caceres.
It was already theirs, given in 1170, but
the King would not recognize the original
donation and they carried the case to
Rome, and could not hold it. Through-
out the thirteenth century, however, they
owned Merida.
Alfonso IX had a lofty spirit, though he
lived under an evil star, and Luke of Tuy
learned to love him well; when he went to
war with Castile over the guardianship of
his young son, who was to live to be
Ferdinand the Saint, and the knights in
Leon elected a Leonese Master, then he
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