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Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ndenburg married the daughter of the King ofDenmark. As a matter of course, the Order of the Teutonic Knights becameextinct. The Order of the Knights of the Golden Fleece was not founded till1449. It was then instituted by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy andCount of Flanders, in order to induce the nobles of his court to join him inmaking war against the Turks, and to attach his subjects by closer ties tothe service of the state. The crusade never took place, but the order survived,and still exists as an heraldic distinction. This order, which was placed under the protection of St. Andrew, wasoriginally composed of twenty-four knights of high rank and stainless MILITARY ORDERS. 197 character; their number was increased by the Duke of Burgundy to thirty-one, and afterwards by Charles V. to fifty-one. The election of the knightstook place in the chapters of the order, and were decided by a majority of votes.The distinguishing sign of the order was a necklet of gold, enamelled with the
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Fig. 155.—Chapter of the Golden Fleece, held by Charles the Bold.—Manuscript of the FifteenthCentury, in the Burgundian Library, Brussels. dukes device, which was composed of two steels and two flints interlaced, withthe motto, Ante ferit quam micat (It strikes before it lights). From the collarwas suspended 8 golden sheep, or sheeps fleece, with the inscription, Pretiumnon vile laborum (Labours just reward) (Fig. 155). Since the marriage ofPhilippe le Beau, son of the Emperor Maximilian and Mary of Burgundy, with MILITARY ORDERS. Jane of Aragon, in 1496, the King of Spain and the Emperor of Austria are, intheir own countries, the sovereign chiefs of the order of the Golden Fleece. Savoy also possessed an order of military knighthood which has survivedtill our time. When Amadeus VIII., in whose person Savoy had beenraised to the rank of a duchy by the Emperor Sigismund, determined tolive as a recluse, he desired to create an order of secular knighthood, withhimself as its chief. H

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