Infidelidad y punición. Caballeros y freiles austracistas ante el tribunal de la lugartenencia general de Montesa

Abstract

This paper intends to analyse the austracism within the Order of Montesa through the existing procedural documentation against their knights and friars. With the study of the different cases, not only the trajectories of some of the main austracists from Valencia are discovered, but also the the way in which the Order punished dissent, among other aspects. All these allow us to observe which were the paths followed by these characters before, during and after the succession conflict, so that we can establish general characterisation of the group and, at the same time, highlight each of its singularities.