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Some convents may at times have lacked commanders of their own for a different reason. In the Hospital several commanderies in each province were not assigned to commanders but were retained as camere by either the Grand Master or the head of the province, who drew revenues from them; (31) a similar practice is found in the Spanish military orders, in which a group of estates formed the mesa maestral. (32) There are hints that at the beginning of the fourteenth century the Temple was also following this custom. The post of commander of Gardeny was kept vacant from 1302 until 1307, and when the Grand Master James of Molay appointed Arnold of Banyuls to the commandery in the latter year he stated that the appointment was as commander, apparently stressing that he was not just installing a deputy to administer the commandery for his own benefit.(33) At the same [268] time the Grand Master granted the commandery of Peñíscola 'as the provincial master of Aragon held it', apparently meaning that the latter had previously kept it in his own hands. (34) Clear evidence of the practice in the Temple is, however, lacking.


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32. Javierre, Privilegios, pp. 65-9; M. Danvila, 'Origen, naturaleza y extensión de los derechos de la Mesa Maestral de la Orden de Calatrava', BRAH, xii (1888), 116-63; J.F. O'Callaghan, 'The Affiliation of the Order of Calatrava with the Order of Citeaux', Analecta Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis, xvi (1960), 7, 22-3; D.W. Lomax, La Orden de Santiago (Madrid, 1965), pp. 205-6.

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mesa maestral
Militar. En las órdenes militares, encomienda respectiva al maestre o a cualquier ciudad, villa o pertenencia suya.