THE TEMPLARS. 333 ear to the king's repeated representations. On the accession of John XXII., however, matters assumed a more favorable aspect, and in 1317 Yidal de Vilanova, Jayme's envoy, procured from him a bull authorizing the formation of the Order of Nuestra Seilora de Montesa, affiliated to the Order of Calatrava, from which its members were to be drawn. Its duties were denned to be the defence of the coasts and frontier of Valencia from corsairs and Moors ; the Templar property in Aragon and Catalonia was made over to the Hospitallers, while the new Order was to have in Va- lencia not only the possessions of the Temple, but all those of the Hospital, except in the city of Valencia and for half a league around it. In 1319 the preliminaries were accomplished, and the new Order was organized with Guillen de Eril as its Grand Master.* In Castile Alonso XL retained for the crown the greater part of the Templar lands, though, along the frontier, nobles and cities succeeded in obtaining a portion. Some were given to the Orders of Santiago and Calatrava, and the Hospitallers received little. After an interval of half a century another effort was made, and in 1366 Urban V. ordered the delivery within two months of all the Templar property to the Hospitallers, but it is safe to assume that the mandate was disregarded, though in 1387 Clement VIL, the Avignonese antipope, confirmed some exchanges made of Tem- plar property by the Hospitallers with the Orders of Santiago and Calatrava. f Castile, as we have already seen, was always sin- gularly independent of the papacy. In Portugal, as mentioned above, the property was handed over as a whole to the Order of Jesus Christ. In the Morea, where the Templar possessions were extensive, Clement had, as early as November 11, 1310, exercised rights of proprietorship by ordering his administrators, the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Archbishop of Patras, to lend to Gautier
- Bofarull y Broca, Hist, de Cataluna, III. 97.— Zurita, Lib. 11. c. 60; Lib. in.
c. 9; Lib. vi. c. 26. — Mariana, Ed. 1789, V. 290. — La Fuente, Hist. Ecles. II. 370-1. Ilescas (Hist. Pontifical, Lib. VI. c. 2), in the second half of the sixteenth century, remarks that there had been fourteen Masters of Montesa and never one married until the present one, D. Cesar de Borja, who is married. t Mariana, V. 290. — Garibay, Compendio Historial Lib. xiii. cap. 33. — Zu- rita, Lib. vi. c. 26. — Le Roulx, Documents, etc., p. 52.
