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Order of the Golden Fleece
Catholic order of chivalry
Details
- Instance of
- order of chivalry
- Inception
- 1430
- Country
- Duchy of Burgundy, Spain under the Restoration, Francoist Spain, Spain, Austrian Empire, Austria–Hungary, Holy Roman Empire
- Founded by
- Philip III the Good
- Creator
- Philip III the Good
- conferred by
- Monarch of Spain, House of Habsburg
- described by source
- Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Orders of Chivalry, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, The Encyclopedia Americana, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
- location of formation
- Bruges
- motto text
- Ante Ferit Quam Flamma Micet
- native label
- Ordre de la Toison d’or
- next lower rank
- Order of the Starry Cross, Order of Charles III, Military Order of Maria Theresa
- topic's main category
- Category:Order of the Golden Fleece
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Subject of
Depicted in
- Coat of arms of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom
- Joseph Bonaparte, king of Spain, in coronation robes
- Princess María Francisca de Asis de Borbón and Her Son Infante Carlos Luis María Fernando de Borbón
- Portrait of Philip I of Castile (1478-1506)
- Portrait Charles V
- Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1514–1574), With his Armor by Filippo Negroli
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