Raimond du Puy, first Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and a Knight of St. Jacob in ceremonial robes.
The illustration shows Raimond du Puy, first Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, or the Knights Hospitaller (194) and a knight of the order of St. Jacob in ceremonial garb (195). The Knights Hospitaller, or the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, was established in 1118 by Gerard Tenque. Their original purpose was to care for sick pilgrims, but they became a military order around 1140. After being expelled from the Holy Lands, the order evolved into the Knights of Malta. The Order of St. Jacob (or the Order of the Shell) was an order of chivalry established in Holland in 1290 by Floris V. 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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