Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 258
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.… … 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…
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