A Concise History of Knighthood: Containing the Religious and Military Orders which Have Been Instituted in Europe. With Descriptions of Their Mantles, Caps, Collars, Stars, Ribbons, and Mottoes. Also Accounts of the Installations of the Garter, Bath, Thistle, and St. Patrick; and Correct Lists of the Knights of Each. To which is Added the Antient Ceremonies Used at Duels, Combats, Justs, and Tournaments. The Whole Imbellished with 82 Copper Plates, Comprising 116 Orders, Accurately Drawn and Neatly Engraved. Being the Completest Collection Ever Published in Great Britain. In Two Volumes. Collected from the Best and Most Approved Prints and Manuscripts. With a Correct Index to the Whole, Bind 2W. Strahan, J. F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, W. Owen, S. Crowder, ... [and 18 others in London], 1784 - 268 sider |
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Side 49 - After the loss of the Isle of Rhodes, they removed to the Island of Malta, which with Tripoli and Gaza were -granted to them in fee by the Emperor Charles VAD...
Side 52 - Maurice, then newly instituted by Emanuel Philabert, Duke of Savoy ; and in 1608 this Order was united in France to that of our Lady of Mount Carmel, which had been instituted by Henry IV. The Knights of St. Lazarus and those of Mount Carmel are allowed to marry, and at the same time to possess pensions charged upon ecclesiastical livings. The badge of the Order was a green cross, like that of Malta, made of geld.
Side 54 - Templars wore linen coifs, (like the serjeants-at-law,) and red caps close over them ; and on their bodies, shirts of mail, and swords girded on with a broad belt; over all they had a white cloak, reaching to the ground, with a cross on their left shoulder : they used to wear their beards of a great length, although most other orders shaved.
Side 54 - Honorius prescribed unto them an order of life, whereby they were to wear a white robe, to which Pope Eugenius afterward added the Red Cross.
Side 161 - Portugal], by Philip, Duke of Burgundy. The occasion of its institution is a subject of controversy among antiquaries: but it appears most probable, that, having determined to institute an Order of Knighthood, he chose for the badge of it the material of the staple manufactories of his country, which was the Fleece; and this emblem might have been the more agreeable to him from the figure it made in the heroic ages of the world, when the Argonautic expedition was undertaken for it.
Side 48 - Baptist of Jerusalem, to distinguish them from the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. They took the black habit of the Hermits of St. Augustine, and on the left breast wore a cross of eight points. " In war they wore crimson, with a white cross, but in their monasteries, and on the day of their profession, the black garment only.
Side 185 - PEAR-TREE, which was instituted in the Kingdom of Leon, about the beginning of the Twelfth century, — from that time until the City of Alcantara was taken from the Moors, it continued to be known by the name of
Side 8 - Head,' founded by the Duke of Wirtemburg in 1652. The badge was a Death's head enamelled white, surrounded with a cross pattee black ; above the cross pattee another cross of five jewels, by which it hangs to a black ribbon edged with white ; motto, ' Memento mori,
Side 79 - ... gold. See PI. 1, fig. 15. BURGUNDIAN CROSS, in Tunis, an order instituted on the feast of St. Mary Magdalen, in 1535, by Charles V. Emperor of Germany and King of Spain, after he had restored Mulleassus, King of Tunis, to his kingdom, to reward those commanders who had signalized themselves in the victory. On the above day he made his pompous entry into Tunis, habited in the coat which he usually wore in battle, whereon was embroidered a Burgundian cross, and which cross he made...