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MILITARY ORDERS
D. Beltran
de la Cueva
popular imagination, dimly and half, for-
gotten, the Master also waits to come
forth when Spain shall know her need.
t
After King John II, the Infant D. Alfonso,
and King Henry IV, had all been adminis-
trators of the Mastership in commission,
D. Beltran de la Cueva, by the King’s
wish, became Master. He married Dona
Mencia de Mendoza, the younger daughter
of D. Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Marquis
of Santillana and Count of the Real de
Manzanares, afterwards Duque del Infan-
tado; and the grandees of Spain were
angry. It is curious that no portrait of
D. Beltran can be found in an age and
country much given to the analysis of
character and the investigation of motives.
The delightful book of Generations and
Semblances ends too early to include him,
and he is not reckoned among the Claros
Varones. One thing we know of him
surely, that his love never failed his lord:
HISPANIC NOTES
MILITARY ORDERS
D. Beltran
de la Cueva
popular imagination, dimly and half, for-
gotten, the Master also waits to come
forth when Spain shall know her need.
t
After King John II, the Infant D. Alfonso,
and King Henry IV, had all been adminis-
trators of the Mastership in commission,
D. Beltran de la Cueva, by the King’s
wish, became Master. He married Dona
Mencia de Mendoza, the younger daughter
of D. Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Marquis
of Santillana and Count of the Real de
Manzanares, afterwards Duque del Infan-
tado; and the grandees of Spain were
angry. It is curious that no portrait of
D. Beltran can be found in an age and
country much given to the analysis of
character and the investigation of motives.
The delightful book of Generations and
Semblances ends too early to include him,
and he is not reckoned among the Claros
Varones. One thing we know of him
surely, that his love never failed his lord:
HISPANIC NOTES