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Chivalric Orders were created by European monarchs after the failure of the Crusades. The memory of the crusading military orders became idealized and romanticized, resulting in the late medieval notion of chivalry, and is reflected in the Arthurian romances of the time. D'Arcy Boulton (1987) classifies other chivalric orders of the 14th and 15th centuries into the following categories:Monarchical Orders, with the presidency attached to a monarch.
:Princely Orders, founded by princes; most of these were founded in imitation of the Golden Fleece, after 1430.
Fraternal Orders, formed ad-hoc for a certain enterprise
Votive Orders, temporarily formed on the basis of a vow; these were courtly chivalric games rather than actual pledges as in the case of the fraternal orders; three are known from their statutes
Cliental Pseudo-Orders, without statutes or restricted memberships, these were princes' retinues fashionably termed "orders"
Honorific Pseudo-Orders, without statutes, these were honorific insignia bestowed on knights on festive occasions, consisting of nothing but the badge
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See also
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Literature
D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton, The knights of the crown the monarchical orders of knighthood in later medieval Europe, 1325–1520 , Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, Palgrave Macmillan (February 1987). ISBN 0-312-45842-8. Second revised edition (paperback): Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2000.
Richard W. Kaeuper, Elspeth Kennedy, Geoffroi De Carny, The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi De Charny: Text, Context, and Translation, University of Pennsylvania Press (December, 1996). ISBN 0-8122-1579-6.
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