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
with the
reigning
dynasty to
propitiate
God’s
judgement
and the
event of
history
in the reign of the Princess Isabel, his sister,
that they had to write, and they had indeed
been of her faction long before. Alonso de
Palencia spent a diligent life in her service
and praise, and did as much as any man
uncrowned to put through her marriage
with Ferdinand of Aragon. Hernando de
Pulgar was titular Chronicler to the Catho-
lic Kings, and as careful in their interest as
Pero Lopez de Ayala in that of Enrique II.
King Henry’s chaplain, Diego Enriquez del
Castillo, suffered much for his loyalty dur-
ing his master’s life and afterwards; he
was seized once at Segovia and his papers
taken away: long after he had to write
a piteous letter to Queen Isabel entreating
that the money yet owing to him as salary
might be paid.
Three-quarters of a century ago Dozy
pointed out that early Spanish churchmen
had blackened the character of the Visi-
gothic kings in the eighth century to save
the case for God’s justice. If misfortunes
so terrible befell them and overwhelmed
Spain they must have been abominable
so to bring them down. Pero Lopez de
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