Royal Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Immaculate Conception

The house Equestrian Order of Saint George (short: Georg medals) was a Bavarian Order of Knights probably the most famous of all 13 orders of knights who had been named after St. George. He exists as the House Order of the Wittelsbach dynasty until today.

History

The Order was founded during the Crusades in the 12th century. In 1494 he was renewed by the Roman-German King Maximilian I and after he had gone in again, the Elector Karl Albrecht, later Emperor Charles VII, again re-established on 24 April 1729 by Pope Benedict XIII. confirmed. After the extinction of the Bavarian line in 1778, he was sanctioned as a palatinate Bavarian Order of the Elector Karl Theodor. From 1780 to 1793 he had his own religious bishop in the person of Joseph Ferdinand Guidobald of Spaur. Maximilian I Joseph raised the George Medal for Second Order of Bavaria and King Ludwig I knew him on 25 February 1827 comprehensive statutes. Finally, the Order of Knights was reorganized under King Ludwig II on April 17, 1871 in the spirit of his time, by the place of the " defense of the Christian Catholic faith," the practice of works of mercy were set as the purpose of the Order.

Organization

The Order had two "tongues", the German and the foreign. At the top of the Order of the Grand Master ( King ), the first Grand Prior ( Crown Prince ), the second Grand Prior (next royal prince ) and a Chancellor of the Order were. The owners were Kapitulargroßkomture, Großkomture ad honores, Kapitularkomture, Commanders ad honores and knights. Three Großkomture appointed the king ( de grâce ), three indented ( de justice ) ago. The Order candidate had to prove and be at least 25 years old an ancestral sample of eight paternal and eight maternal noble ancestors. In addition, the Order had a spiritual rittergebürtige class.

After the First World War and the end of the monarchy in the Kingdom of Bavaria, the Order was obtained by its character as a House Order today as a charitable organization. Today's Grand Master is Duke Franz of Bavaria.

Order decoration

The religious character is an eight-pointed golden cross with small balls on the cross points. On the front is seen on a sky blue background in the portrait medallion of the Virgin Mary standing on a moon. In the cross angles the letters VIBI ( " virgini Immaculatae Bavaria immaculate "). The rear of the representation of Saint George by a laurel wreath surrounded, and the letters IVPF ( " Justus ut palma fiorebit ").

Sky blue, white and dark blue on the edge encompassed ribbon holding a lion's head by the Order. The Großkomture take the tape from the right to the left side of the body and on the chest of the sky-blue, eight-pointed, silver- bordered star with Bavarian Wake up in the corners, in the middle of a silver shield with a red cross, the commanders, the cross on the neck and the star the Knights of the Cross in his buttonhole. On the Order festivals (24 April and 8 December ) the members of the Order wear a special habit and the cross on a gold chain.

The ceremony clothing consisted of a light blue Samttalar with white silk and Hermelinausfütterung. White atlas silk breeches, silk stockings and white shoes with rosettes completed just such clothes.

Award numbers

1806-1918

1918-1986

Statue of Saint George, Treasury Munich, 1590

Prince Carl as 2nd Grand Prior, with a candidate and a knight

Ludwig II as Grand Master

Ludwig III. as Grand Master