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Editor of H.E.Cardinale, Orders of Knighthood, Awards and the Holy See (3rd edition, Van Duren Publishers, 1985) ISBN 978-0-905715-26-1 Editor of Jacques Martin, Heraldry in the Vatican / L'Araldica in Vaticano / Heraldik im Vatikan (Van Duren Publishers, 1987) ISBN 978-0-905715-25-4
The orders owned houses called commanderies all across Europe and had a hierarchical structure of leadership with the grand master at the top. The Knights Templar, the largest and most influential of the military orders, was suppressed in the early fourteenth century; only a handful of orders were established and recognized afterwards.
An order of knights is a community of knights composed by order rules with the main purpose of an ideal or charitable task. The original ideal lay in monachus et miles (monk and knight), who in the order – ordo (Latin for 'order' / 'status') – is dedicated to a Christian purpose. The first orders of knights were religious orders that were ...
Pages in category "Protestant orders of chivalry" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bailiwick of Utrecht
Tallinn Museum of Orders of Knighthood This page was last edited on 21 April 2020, at 19:34 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The Collar Badge of the Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, the oldest grand collar still being worn by Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy.. The first of the Orders of Knighthood were the military orders of crusaders who used red, green or black crosses of velvet on their mantles, to distinguish their brotherhoods.
In medieval military orders such as the Knights Templar or the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, the Grand Master was the formal and executive head of a military and feudal hierarchy, which can be considered a "state within the state", especially in the crusader context lato sensu, notably aimed at the Holy Land or pagan territories in Eastern ...
Anglican orders and communities (4 C, 81 P) L. Lutheran orders and societies (1 C, 21 P) O. Orange Order (1 C, 46 P) P. Protestant orders of chivalry (1 C, 1 P)