. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. nting on Wood of the Fif-teenth Century, hold in veneration in the Church of the Temple, at Valencia ; and from the Iconografia Espanola of M. Carderera. master and one of the others recanted their confession of guilt and protestedtheir innocence. The cardinals, surprised at this recantation, committedthe prisoners to the care of the provost of Paris, with orders to bring thembefore them the next day, when the tribunal had had time to deliberate MILITARY ORDERS. 193 on this fresh incident. But Philippe le Be
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. nting on Wood of the Fif-teenth Century, hold in veneration in the Church of the Temple, at Valencia ; and from the Iconografia Espanola of M. Carderera. master and one of the others recanted their confession of guilt and protestedtheir innocence. The cardinals, surprised at this recantation, committedthe prisoners to the care of the provost of Paris, with orders to bring thembefore them the next day, when the tribunal had had time to deliberate MILITARY ORDERS. 193 on this fresh incident. But Philippe le Bel, learning what was taking place>hurriedly assembled his council, and had the grand master, and the otherTemplar who had similarly persisted in denying his twice-avowed guilt,burnt alive the same night. They underwent this horrible torture protestingtheir innocence to the last. The two remaining knights who had acknow-ledged their guilt were kept for some time in prison, but were afterwardsset at liberty. Other orders of knighthood, having more or less of a religious character,. Fig. 152.—Surrender of the Town of Montefrio, near Granada, in 1486. The alcids and Moorishchiefs, after the siege, delivering the keys of the town to Ferdinand the Catholic and QueenIsabella.—Bas-relief on the stalls of the choir of the high altar of the cathedral, carved inwood in the Sixteenth Century. were founded in the Middle Ages, or during the Renaissance period: theprincipal were, in Spain, the Order of the Knights of Calatrava ; in Germany,the Order of the Teuton Knights ; the Order of the Golden Fleece in the LowCountries, in Spain, and in Austria ; that of St. Maurice and St. Lazarusin Savoy; that of St. Stephen in Tuscany ; and in France, those of and of the Holy Ghost, which were merely honorary orders,although the first Order of the Holy Ghost, founded in 1352 by LouisdAnjou, King of Jerusalem and Sicily, had for its object the re-establishment c c 194 MILITARY ORDERS.
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