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minion or domain, the monarchical orders and indeed the curial orders<br />

more generally were also the embodiments of the ideals of nobility within<br />

the same territories. To serve both ideals, many founders or later presidents<br />

of such societies attached to them the office of the chief herald of their<br />

lands: a role still played by Garter, Principal King of Arms of the English,<br />

to this day. In principle these ideals always included distinguished military<br />

service, and if the surviving orders have never admitted the most decorated<br />

soldiers from the ranks, they have usually included the most distinguished<br />

generals and admirals of their presidents’ lands, along with the most distinguished<br />

prime ministers, princes, and peers.<br />

D’A. Jonathan D. Boulton<br />

See also Chivalry; Europe; Knights; Orders of Knighthood, Religious<br />

References<br />

Barber, Richard. 1994. <strong>The</strong> Knight and Chivalry. 3d ed. Woodbridge,<br />

Suffolk, UK: <strong>The</strong> Boydell Press.<br />

Boulton, D’Arcy Jonathan Dacre. 2000. <strong>The</strong> Knights of the Crown: <strong>The</strong><br />

Monarchical Orders of Knighthood in Later Medieval Europe,<br />

1325–1520. 2d ed. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: <strong>The</strong> Boydell Press.<br />

Keen, Maurice. 1984. Chivalry. New Haven: Yale University Press.<br />

Kruse, Holger, Werner Paravicini, and Andreas Ranft, eds. 1991.<br />

Ritterorden und Adelsgesellschaften im Spätmittelalterlichen<br />

Deutschland. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.<br />

Ranft, Andreas. 1994. Adelsgesellschaften: Gruppenbildang und<br />

Genossenschaft im Spätmittelalterlichen Reich. Sigmaringen:<br />

J. Thorbecke.<br />

Orders of Knighthood, Secular 401

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