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Chapter 6 - Charles V as Crusader and Christian Knight

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2013

Mary Tiffany Ferer
Mary Tiffany Ferer
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Associate Professor at the College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University
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CHARLES V AND THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE

Among the more elaborate festivities at the court of Charles V were those connected with the ceremonies of the chivalric Order of the Golden Fleece. The Order had been founded by the Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good, in 1430 at the time of his marriage to Isabelle of Portugal,

for the perfect love that we have for the noble estate and order of chivalry … in praise of our Almighty Creator and Redeemer, in reverence of his glorious Virgin Mother, and to the honour of St Andrew, glorious Apostle and Martyr, and to the exaltation of the faith and the Holy Church, and the practice of virtues and good habits.

Charles became a chevalier of the order at the age of one in 1501 and head of the order when in 1515 he came of age and inherited the title of Duke of Burgundy. The Order originally had 25 members, but by 1431 the number had been increased to 31. After Charles became King of Castile and Aragon, that number was increased to 51 in 1516 in order to include members from Spain.

In 1454 the Order had gathered at Lille, in a meeting that included the famous banquet known as the Feast of the Oath of the Pheasant, to plan a crusade to recapture the Holy Land for Christianity.

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Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V
The Capilla Flamenca and the Art of Political Promotion
 , pp. 203 - 220
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2012

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