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
“For
Prosperity
doth best
discover
vice. . .
ask the following: that all cities and
places which were attached to the Master-
ship of Santiago should become the per-
sonal and entailed property of the Infant
D. Enrique, to be inherited by his offspring,
and that the domain should be called no
longer Maestrazgo, but Duchy. This
being, as he seemed to think, as good as
done, he went on to take his wife; the King
was apparently compliant entirely. As
surely as the King was going from Avila
to Talavera, without the knowledge of
Queen Leonor who lay in Medina del
Campo, awaiting a solution of the negotia-
tions, so surely he was going with D. En-
rique in spite of D. Alvaro de Luna’s oppo-
sition. The Constable forbade it. He
went notwithstanding and lay one night in
a mountain castle belonging to the Arch-
bishop of Toledo, called Alamin, and there
the Infant and the Infanta Dona Catalina
saw each other and held converse. What
else happened only those there and D.
Alvaro de Luna knew: bu t Rades y Andrada
says that they were privately married
there. In Talavera, thereafter, they were
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