The Most Noble Order of the Garter: Past and Present

I have found myself talking about a lot of Knights of the Garter recently, but what does this actually refer to? What can we find out about this chivalric order’s past and present?

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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Photograph of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall taken at and by “The Big Lunch” (17th April 2018).

Baroness Valerie Amos pictured during a meeting with UK's International Development Minister Alan Duncan (not shown) in London, taken by Simon Davis/Department for International Development (16th May 2013).

Photograph of Tony Blair, taken by Pavel Golovkin (19th March 2010).

Illumination showing Philippa of Hainault from Jean Froissart’s Chronicles (15th century).

Portrait of Lady Margaret Beaufort by Meynnart Wewyck (c.1510). Held by the Master's Lodge, St John's College, University of Cambridge.

Portrait of Alexandra of Denmark by Luke Fildes (1905). Held by the Royal Collection.

Knights Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, in procession to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle for the annual service of the Order of the Garter, taken by Philip Allfrey (19th June 2006).

Photograph of the interior of St George’s Chapel, Windsor, taken by Josep Renalias.

Garter stall-plate of Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex (c.1452). Held by St George’s Chapel, Windsor.

Garter stall-plate of Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (c.1494). Held by St George’s Chapel, Windsor.

Garter stall-plate of Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy (c.1474). Held by St George’s Chapel, Windsor.

Garter stall-plate of George Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan (1891). Held by St George’s Chapel, Windsor.

Screenshot of HM The Queen, HRH The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duke of Cambridge in Garter Robes from https://www.royal.uk/order-garter

Details of a photograph of the insignia of the Order of the Garter taken by DJM (2nd June 2009).

Portrait of Henry VIII after Hans Holbein the Younger (after 1537). Held by the Walker Art Gallery.

Portrait of Queen Victoria by Herbert Luther Smith (1848). Owned by Aberdeen City Council under the curatorial care of Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums.

Battle of Crécy between the English and French in the Hundred Years' War, from an illuminated manuscript of Jean Froissart's Chronicles (15th century). Held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Illuminations of the first Garter Knights from the Bruges Garter Book (15th century). Held by the British Library.

Arms of the Most Noble Order of the Garter reproduced by “Sodacan” for Wikimedia Commons (21st July 2010).

Portrait of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham by an unknown artist (1520). Held by Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Photographs of: Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, in uniform, 1903; Kaiser Wilhelm II by Court Photographer T. H. Voigt of Frankfurt, 1902; Prince Ernest Augustus, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale; Prince Henry of Prussia; Prince Ernest Ludwig of Hesse; Frederick William Victor Augustus Ernest, Crown Prince Imperial of Germany; Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany, and Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; and Wilhelm II, King of Württemberg.

Photograph of Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy taken by Atelier Bettini, Roma-Livorno (1919).

Photograph of Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (1935).

Quoted texts:

Richard Barber, “Founding Knights of the Order of the Garter” from ODNB

W. M. Ormrod, “King Edward III” from ODNB
Also consulted, were:

Gillespie, James L. “Ladies of the Fraternity of Saint George and of the Society of the Garter.” Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, vol. 17, no. 3, 1985, pp. 259–78

Ormrod, W. M. “The Personal Religion of Edward III.” Speculum, vol. 64, no. 4, 1989, pp. 849–77

Morgan, D. A. L. “The Political After-Life of Edward III: The Apotheosis of a Warmonger.” The English Historical Review, vol. 112, no. 448, 1997, pp. 856–81

Other relevant entries in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online

#History #EdwardIII #OrderOfTheGarter

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