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 264
might be able to render towards the Crusades in Pales-tine. The new order of the Holy Ghost, although a military one, was destinedto gather round the king, who was its supreme head, a body of a hundredknights, selected from among the most eminent and the most illustrious per-sonages of the court,… … Fig. 158.—State Gloves of embroidered silk, gold, and silver, with the Monogram of Christ, formerlybelonging to Louis XIII.—From the originals in the Collection of M. Jubinal. with a cross bearing a silver dove, emblem of the Holy Ghost. At themeetings of their order, the knights were clad in…
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