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    Knights of St Anthony


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    Does this look like the knights of St Anthony cloak/mantle clasp insignia that i found in UK? Thanks

    Monument of Sir Roger De Bois Holy Trinity Church Ingham Norfolk wearing order

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    Knights of St. Anthony, founded in 1382 by Albrecht II of Bavaria, count of Hainault(member of order of Garter also) (d. 1404). Originally a quasi-military order loosely aligned with the Knights of the Teutonic Order, this confraternity had been converted by 1420 into an aristocratic society attached to the chapel of Saint-Antoine-de-Barbefosse at Havre, near Mons in Hainault. Membership, which required annual dues to the Antonines, seems to have been limited largely to Albrecht's heirs-Johann, Wilhelm, and Jacoba-and to select members of the aristocratic or patrician classes. The insignia of this order, a gold tau with a small bell suspended from a heavy collar, in imitation of the knotted waist cord of St. Anthony, appears in several fifteenth-century portraits. The earliest of these is the portrait of a man holding a pink, often identified as Johann of Bavaria, count of Hainault, and attributed to a follower of Jan van Eyck

     

     The Order of the Knights of St. Anthony could have been introduced into England by Jacoba, who annulled her second marriage in order to marry Humphrey, duke of Gloucester and regent to Henry VI. Such orders were viewed as tokens of allegiance and were often bestowed in the course of negotiating grander alliances. The one in question here, which would have placed Hainault, Friesland, Holland, and Zeeland in the possession of the English crown, was certainly not calculated to please Philippe the Good, duke of Burgundy, who was no doubt instrumental in thwarting its consummation. In any event, at least two Englishmen, Sir Roger de Boys and Sir Bernard Brocas, are known to have belonged to the order.

     

     

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