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The Knights and Ladies of Honor originated as a splinter group of the Knights of Honor, a fraternal secret society founded in 1873.In 1875, the Knights of Honor created an auxiliary, the Degree of Protection, open to wives, mothers, widows and unmarried daughters and sisters of members of the Knights of Honor, as well as male members of the parent order.
Knights and Ladies of the Golden Rule – Founded in August 1879, in Cincinnati, but chartered in Kentucky that same month. Many of the founders were members of the Order of Mutual Aid, which had just been dissolved after the yellow fever epidemic that hit Memphis in 1878. Founders also included members of the AOUW and the Knights of Honor.
At the investiture ceremony, two senior knights or ladies of the order assist the Sovereign by placing the garter around the left leg of the new knight, or left arm of the new lady, and in the fastening of the riband and Lesser George about the body of the new knight or lady, and in the adjustment of the mantle and the collar. [45]
Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan. Nomads of Avrudaka - a female auxiliary to the Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan. [33] Knights of the Orient - Also known as the Ancient Order of the Knights of the Orient [34] or the Orientals. [35] This was a side degree conferred "mostly" to the Knights of Pythias.
Thereafter, representatives of the degree met in Louisville and organized a new society, the Order of Mutual Protection of the Knights and Ladies of Honor, subsequently known as the Knights and Ladies of Honor. [12] The Knights were founded by an original group of 17 men in 1873 and increased to 99 by the end of the year.
Its membership is extremely limited, consisting of the Sovereign, the Prince of Wales—both being members ex officio and gaining membership upon acceding to one of the titles if not already held—and not more than 24 full members known as Companions. Male members are known as Knights Companion, whilst female members are known as Ladies Companion.
King John II of France in a ceremony of "adoubement", early 15th century miniature. Accolade ceremonies have taken a variety of forms, including the tapping of the flat side of a knighting sword on the shoulders of a candidate (who is himself sometimes referred to as an accolade during the ceremony) [1] [6] or an embrace about the neck.
During the Middle Ages, a squire on the night before his knighting ceremony was expected to take a cleansing bath, fast, make confession, and then hold an all-night vigil of prayer in the chapel, preparing himself in this manner for life as a knight. For the knighting ceremony, he dressed in white as a symbol for purity, and over that was ...