Resumen de A document about the beginning of the military orders’ involvement in the Reconquista
More decisive proof about the letter’s destination is provided by the fact that it had earlier been copied into several interrelated Templar cartularies which contain mostly transcripts of papal and royal documents and which were compiled in the later thirteenth century. Templar documentation had, however, passed into royal hands as the Order’s possessions in Aragonese territories were seized between 1307 and 1309. It may therefore be argued that the transcription in 1311 was made from a document which was known in the royal court to have been among the materials found in Templar convents. By the early 1140s the Templars could be persuaded to extend their military activities to the Peninsula; but they had at first been wary of committing themselves to fighting in the Iberian Peninsula as well as in the Holy Land when they were still at an early stage of development.
