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The Free Imperial Knights (German: Reichsritter, Latin: Eques imperii) were free nobles of the Holy Roman Empire, whose direct overlord was the Emperor.They were the remnants of the medieval free nobility and the ministeriales.
This is a list of the Imperial Knights of the Holy Roman Empire. A. Auberge d'Allemagne; ... Order of the Golden Fleece; R. Rhön-Werra; T. Teutonic Order;
The Order of St. George – a European Order of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine (German: St. Georgs-Orden – ein Europäischer Orden des Hauses Habsburg-Lothringen [2]), or simply Order of Saint George, is a dynastic order of chivalry and thus a house order of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, the former Imperial and Royal House of the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg monarchy, the Empire of ...
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 ...
The Imperial Order of Saint Stanislaus (Polish: Order św. Stanisława; Russian: Орденъ Св. Станислава, romanized: Orden Sv. Stanislava), also spelled Stanislas or Stanislav, is a Russian dynastic order of knighthood founded as Order of the Knights of Saint Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr in 1765 by King Stanisław II Augustus of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Chains of the Order of Our Lady of Guadalupe (below) and of the Order of the Mexican Eagle. There were three Imperial Orders of the Mexican Empire, which were Orders of chivalry created to reward Heads of state and prominent people during the two periods of the Mexican Empire — the Imperial Order of Guadalupe [] (Spanish: Orden Imperial de Guadalupe), the Imperial Order of the Mexican Eagle ...
Esquire is a rank of gentry originally derived from Squire and indicating the status of an attendant to a knight, an apprentice knight, or a manorial lord; [43] it ranks below Knight (or in Scotland below Laird) but above Gentleman. [e] [f]
Order of the Lion 1080; Order of Saint Lazarus 1099; Order of the Temple, also known as the Templars, set up in Jerusalem by 7 French knights in 1118.The Order had its headquarters in Paris but was so spread across Europe it cannot be accounted a solely French order