Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III of England in 1348. Dates shown are of nomination or installation; coloured rows indicate sovereigns, princes of Wales, medieval ladies, modern royal knights and ladies, and stranger knights and ladies, none of whom counts toward the 24-member limit.
The monarch is known as the Sovereign of the Garter, and the Prince of Wales is known as a Royal Knight Companion of the Garter. [21] Male members of the Order are titled "Knights Companion" and female members are called "Ladies Companion". Formerly, the sovereign filled vacancies upon the nomination of the members.
Male members are known as Knights Companion, whilst female members are known as Ladies Companion. The Order can also include supernumerary members (members of the British royal family and foreign monarchs), known as "Royal" and "Stranger" Knights and Ladies (Companion), respectively. The Sovereign alone grants membership to the Order, meaning ...
Edward Sutton was the eldest son of Sir Edmund Sutton and Joyce de Tiptoft, [1] daughter of Sir John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft.In right of his wife Joyce, Edmund Dudley benefited from her inheritance of the Tibetot barony and Cherleton barony, and thus co-heir to the Powis inheritance, but was never created baron of these holdings.
Arms of Sir Thomas Burgh, at the time of his installation as a knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh of Gainsborough, KG (/ ˈ b ʌr ə / BURR-ə; also spelt Borough; c. 1488 – 28 February 1550), de jure 5th Baron Strabolgi and 7th Baron Cobham of Sterborough, was an English peer.
He participated in three tournaments between October 1347 and January 1348, at Bury St Edmunds, Eltham, and Windsor, after which he was described as a knight of the chamber in the Wardrobe accounts. He was made a founder Knight of the Garter (stall 17) in 1348. [2] [3] In October 1351, Stapleton joined the newly knighted William Latimer abroad.
Sir Walter Paveley KG (1319–1375) was an English knight from Kent, a Knight Founder of the Order of the Garter. He was the son of Sir Walter Paveley (d. 1327), a Kentish landholder, and Maud (1304 – c. 1366), daughter and heir of Sir Stephen Burghersh (d. 1310), the elder son of Robert Burghersh (d. 1306).
Arms of Ralph Basset, first Lord Basset of Drayton Arms of Sir Ralph Bassett. Or, three piles, the points meeting in base, Gules, a quarter Ermine. Ralph Basset, 3rd Baron Basset of Drayton (or alternatively 4th Baron Basset) KG (1335 – 10 May 1390) was a medieval English soldier knight, one of the earliest-appointed Knights of the Garter.