. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. Fig. 116.—Sword of Isabella the Catholic. Upon the hilt is the following inscription, partly inSpanish and partly in Latin:—I am always desiring honour; now I am watching, peacebe with me (Deseo sienpre onera; nunc caveo, pax con migo).—From the ArmeriaReal of Madrid, a publication of M. Ach. Jubinals. to sovereigns, who constantly endeavoured to create beside it, and sometimesabove it, a nobility of the sword, an individual and personal rank that couldnot be handed down from father to son (Fig. 118). Thus P
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. Fig. 116.—Sword of Isabella the Catholic. Upon the hilt is the following inscription, partly inSpanish and partly in Latin:—I am always desiring honour; now I am watching, peacebe with me (Deseo sienpre onera; nunc caveo, pax con migo).—From the ArmeriaReal of Madrid, a publication of M. Ach. Jubinals. to sovereigns, who constantly endeavoured to create beside it, and sometimesabove it, a nobility of the sword, an individual and personal rank that couldnot be handed down from father to son (Fig. 118). Thus Philippe le Bel,being in want of soldiers after the Flemings had destroyed his chivalry—thatis to say, his nobility—attempted immediately to replace it by ordering that CHIVALRY. the elder of two sons of a villain, and the two elder of three sons, should boadmitted into the order of knighthood. In this way Frederick Barbarossa. HU19 T Fig. 117.—Chivalry represented by Allegorical Figures.—Fac-simile of a Copperplate in the Spanishtranslation of the Chevalier delibere of Olivier de la Marche: 4to, Salamanca, 1573. knighted peasants who had displayed personal bravery on the field ofbattle. As for the Church, it contented itself with warning the knights against CHIVALRY. r too bellicose a spirit, and with imbuing them as far as possible with thesentiments of Christian charity ; in fact, knights were frequently consideredto be a species of Levite. There was, says the Ordene de Chevalerie * a great resemblance between the duties of a knight and those of a
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