Abstract
Membership of the military-religious order of the Hospital of St. John, based on Rhodes, had long included women who were fully-professed religious bound by vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. In 1415 the noble Margarida d'Erill was received into the female house at Alguaire in Catalunya where the commander was her cousin, the Hospitaller Fr. Ramon Roger d'Erill. When Sor Margarida became pregnant soon after, Fr. Ramon Roger was accused of being responsable and there ensued a lengthy scandal in which extensive gossip circulated within the convent; meanwhile Sor Margarida's father, Arnau d'Erill, challenged her cousin to a duel in a long and bitter poem. While the truth of this affair remains obscure, the scandal threw considerable light on the disciplinary and other conditions prevalent within the convent. Fr. Ramon Roger spent most of the rest of his career on Rhodes, where he died in 1432, while Sor Margarida lived on until 1456 in a house which functioned as a comfortable hereditary hostel for aristocratic Catalan ladies.
Highlights
Sor Margarida apparently remained at Alguaire; she was alive in 1426^^ and died on 6 October 1456: "Obijt dona Margarida d'Eril Ayn MCCCCLVI"^
Ramon Roger with the prospect of exile to Constance and Rhodes^'', and Rhodes did provide a convenient retreat since the Lieutenant Master governing there in 1419 and 1420 was a Catalan, Fr
In 1415 the noble Margarida d'Erill was received into the female house at Alguaire in Catalunya where the commander was her cousin, the Hospitaller Fr
Summary
(c) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Licencia Creative Commons 3.0 España (by-nc) http://estudiosmedievales.revistas.csic.es that the regulations of 1330 prevented the prior from interfering^^ The prioress and her sisters, manoeuvring perhaps to avoid any full-scale investigation of their activities, were probably supporting Fr. Ramon Roger, despite the affair of Sor Margarida, in their determination to resist the prior's interference with their choice of commander, but eventually, faced with his removal, they made a new choice.
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