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

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them. With the facetious talkers he was
merry and very pleasant, but never made
them partakers of his actions.
He was the son of a gentleman of noble
birth and quality, of an ancient house in
Aragon, who had held office about the
person of the late King of Castile. The
Pope Benedict XIII was Peter of Luna
and his great-uncle; another Peter his
uncle was Archbishop of Toledo; another
his cousin-german, Archbishop of Sara-
gossa. His brother, D. Juan de Cerezuelos,
he procured to be promoted from the see
of Seville to that of Toledo, and his nephew
he preferred to be Archbishop of Santiago.
His mother dwelt in the village of
Canete, near Cuenca, but by her name
Maria de Urazandi she would be of Vas-
congada: she married, later, the Alcayde
of Canete; D. Juan de Cerezuelos was the
son of this Warden. His father dying when
he was still very young, his uncle D. Juan
Martinez de Luna bred him up in his
house, and because he was of a good wit,
and very quick and ready, he was well
liked by all, as much of the household as
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