For the same reason that noblemen in the Middle Ages didn’t expropriate every monastery or benefice: professional warriors fear damnation more than most.
Thanks for the Quiet Isle reply, makes sense especially with the surrounding terrain, but with that I was more thinking why some local power didn’t seize it & set up a small stronghold there. Displacing a (minor) holy order &/or simply not worth the effort?
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