Knights of the Order of the Golden Shield, chevaliers de l'ordre de l'ecu d'or, founded by Louis II duc de Bourbon in 1369. The ceremonial robes have gold shields on the chest. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard after a miniature in a manuscript book of Hommages du comte de Clermont from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historiques de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852.

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