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The Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis (French: Ordre Royal et Militaire de Saint-Louis) is a dynastic order of chivalry founded 5 April 1693 [1] [2] by King Louis XIV, named after Saint Louis (King Louis IX of France).
This category contains biographical articles about individuals who have received The Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis (French: Ordre Royal et Militaire de Saint-Louis). The order was founded on April 5, 1693 by Louis XIV and named after Saint Louis . It was intended as a reward for exceptional officers, and is notable as the first ...
Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), also known as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270. He is widely recognized as the most distinguished of the Direct Capetians .
Prior to the creation of the Order of the Holy Spirit in 1578 by King Henry III, the senior order of chivalry in France had been the Order of Saint Michael. [2] The idea flashed to him in Venice, where he had seen the original manuscript of an Order of the Saint Esprit or Droit Desir founded in 1353 by Louis of Anjou, titular king of Jerusalem and Sicily and husband of Joanna, queen of Naples ...
Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis (1693) Order of the Bee 1703; Order of the Terrace 1716; Order of the Banner 1723; Order of Military Merit also Institution du Military Merit (1759) Order of the Rose 1780; On January 1, 1791, the Order of Saint Louis and the Order of Military Merit were merged into the Military Decoration (French ...
In 1791, during the French Revolution, the Order of Military Merit was incorporated into the Order of St. Louis to create a single Décoration Militaire, to which King Louis XVIII of France made appointments until he on 28 November 1814 reinstituted the Order of Military Merit, and increased the number of available Grand Crosses to four and the ...
Order of Saint Louis; Order of Saint Michael; Ordre de la Santé publique; Order of the Star (France) Order of the Star of Anjouan; T. Order of Tahiti Nui; W.
Saint Louis (King Louis IX) built Sainte-Chapelle in the 13th century to house the Holy Crown, a fragment of the True Cross and other relics he had acquired from Baldwin II of Constantinople. This made the chapel itself an immense reliquary , housing the crown, the True Cross fragment, relics of the Virgin Mary (in particular her milk), the ...