Knight of the Order of Saint Micheal, a French order of chivalry established in 1469 by Louis XI.
Knight of the Order of Saint Micheal, a French order of chivalry established in 1469 by Louis XI. It originally permitted only 36 member knights, but was later enlarged to 100 member knights by Louis XIV in 1665. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a knight from a religious military order from Robert von Spalart's "Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages" (1796).
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