MLARTC_FM.part 1.qxp

some places grand priories, including two or more priories; the government of these was entrusted to appointive officers called ...

within the walls of a major castle. Most of the provincial convents were similarly housed, and indeed all of the castles manned ...

cipline was enforced by written regulations, by the formal vow of obedi- ence they took on joining, by the harsh punishments met ...

their service whenever he needed it and for as long as he needed it, without considerations of remuneration. In all of these res ...

though they normally included men from all three of the orders of society (clerics, lay nobles, and simples), by the end of the ...

meaningful way without sorting them into types sharing at least limited sets of characteristics. This can most readily be done o ...

emony (principally the Knights of the Bath of England and those of St. Mark of Venice); peregrine pseudo-orders, whose members w ...

with one or more priests paid to say masses for the benefit of the members, living and dead; and the holding of an annual genera ...

and Order of the Young Male Falcon, founded between 1377 and 1385 by the viscount of Thouars and seventeen minor barons in Poito ...

dynasty of the founder. These latter usually gave the president a leading, if not dominant, role in their activities. Monarchica ...

took it upon themselves to promote the fellow feeling and exclusiveness of members of the old knightly nobility by insisting upo ...

this type: the Castilian Order of Santiago, founded in 1170 on the general model of the Order of the Temple, and the Bavarian Co ...

Castilian court. Before he could complete that project, however, he was dis- tracted by the need to prosecute his claim to the F ...

duke of Chablais and Aosta in 1364, founded the Order of the Collar, un- der the patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary. By the en ...

William, and St. George of the Pelican) were even limited to men. The re- mainder were open noble societies admitting women as w ...

side-chapel or chantry in the local parish church and a single priest to offi- ciate there on their behalf, and merely rented a ...

cieties. One order—that of the Ship—actually promised to provide full- scale tombs for all of its companions. The direct influen ...

tinctive color and increasingly distinctive shape made of textile and applied as a plaque to the left breast of the mantle, and ...

order in 1344, there can be little doubt that the king from whom he cer- tainly borrowed the idea (Alfonso XI of Castile) though ...

by two of the main objects of many founders: to bind the leaders of the no- bility of their domain to themselves and their dynas ...