"Then there are the knightly Orders, in which you might rise high."

In the 12th-13th century, most of the prominent Spanish Knightly orders were formed.

Such power was forbidden to the knightly orders.

A paladin unbound to some knightly order or cult is rare these days.

The golden fleece hangs in front of the body, which is a reference to the most important knightly orders time.

Only equites (members of the Roman knightly order) were eligible to serve as senior officers.

You can qualify easily for either of the knightly orders, if that's what you want."

This is accepted as part of the natural order and causes no ill will amongst the Knightly Orders.

It may have been the knightly order's importance that kept Herren-Sulzbach out of this pledge.

Napoleon also established a new knightly order in 1802, the Légion d'honneur, which still exists.

He outlawed the brotherhood of the immaculate conception but confirmed a knightly order with the same name.

The decline of knightly Orders in Spain is the subject of much debate.

This society is a knightly order rather than a strictly religious one, and people of a wide variety of character classes belong to it.

Beginning in 1137, the Knights also took on the task of armed border protection, thereby becoming an ecclesiastical knightly order.

"Most paladins are drawn from the knightly orders.

While knightly orders were re-established, no new titles of nobility were granted.

You're not out to restore just the Brightblade name and for- tune; you want to restore the entire knightly order."

Each candidate is attached to one of the knightly orders, but spends much of his or her time with a paladin sponsor.

In 1182 he organized a warrior futuwwa order that was for all practical purposes a knightly order with mounted warriors.

During the French Revolution a decree of 30 July 1791 suppressed all royal and knightly orders.

Those be knightly orders of which I wot not Be they doughty knights?"

Later the members of knightly orders used rings, embroidred dragons and even garters as the symbol of their order.

This knightly order was established on the occasion of the royal troop's victory over Hrvoje Hrvatinić in 1408.

More decisive in elevating the knightly order than the direct influence of the Church, however, was the decentralization and devolution of governmental authority.

They were called Ordensburgen and they served as headquarters and training grounds for initiates into the knightly orders.