The Monks of War
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* Montalbán – confusingly spelt Montalaun by Rades- was the Grand Commandcry in Aragon and was accompanied by a priory which was the only house of Santaguista canons in that kingdom.
* Before sailing for Ceuta King João appointed Dom Fernando Rodrigues de Sequeira, Mestre of Aviz, to be Regent of the Realm.
* Strictly speaking, Dom Enrique was the Order's Regidor, or administrator, to which office he had been appointed in 1418.
* This frey caballero later became one of Spain's greatest generals in the Italian wars.
* This deals only with Santiago, Calatrava and Alcántara, but in the following year Rades published a little book containing the Statutes of Montesa, though it does not include a chronicle.
* Even in Aragon, after sufficient had been taken to found the new Order of Montesa, enough Templar property fell into the hands of the kingdom's Hospitalarios to make it necessary to divide the Castellanry of Amposta (i.e. priory of Aragon) and erect a new priory of Catalunya.
* A Knight of Justice in Britain must show that all his four grandparents had inherited arms or that his family has been noble in the male line for three hundred years. Nobility is defined as possession of a coat of arms on record at the College of Arms in England or at the Lion Court of Chivalry in Scotland.