Chivalry

July 18 – This King Would Not Wear a Crown of Gold Where Jesus Wore a Crown of Thorns

July 16, 2012

BBC: Prince William installed as Knight of the Order of the Thistle

July 12, 2012

The Crusaders storm into Jerusalem

July 12, 2012

July 13 – Good King Henry

July 12, 2012

In saving Don John of Austria’s life, Don Luis Quijada loses his own

July 2, 2012

June 28 – To Avoid Their Desecration, He Ordered the Relics of the Saints to be Brought Inside the Walls

June 28, 2012

Video: Order of the Garter Service and Procession at Windsor Castle

June 25, 2012

June 25 – Simon de Montfort

June 25, 2012

June 27 – The Saint-King elected to lead the First Crusade

June 25, 2012

June 21 – More Angel than Man

June 21, 2012

Through self-mastery, Don John of Austria saves the Catholic fleet from self-destruction

June 14, 2012

June 15 – Battle of Lyndanisse during the Northern Crusades

June 14, 2012

June 15 – St. Bernard dogs carry his name

June 14, 2012

June 13 – He Died Aged 36, But the Whole World Knows Him

June 11, 2012

Captain John Barry, Father of the American Navy, fights and wins a prize

June 7, 2012

June 7 – The Crusaders reach the walls of Jerusalem

June 7, 2012

June 5 – It is in adversity that we test friendship

June 4, 2012

The Duke of Cambridge Made a Knight of the Order of the Thistle

May 31, 2012

Philip II personally instructs his half-brother Don John on how to behave and command with honor

May 31, 2012

May 30 – Maid of Orleans

May 28, 2012

May 30 – Most Valiant

May 28, 2012

The death of Saint Ferdinand III, the very noble King of Castile and Leon

May 28, 2012

May 24 – Our Lady Help of Christians, to commemorate the liberation of the Pope from prison

May 24, 2012

May 19 – Charlemagne’s Scholar

May 17, 2012

St. Joan of Arc: the prophetic voice that saved France

May 14, 2012

May 16 – Crusader King and Leper

May 14, 2012

May 10 – Saint Damien: A Hero Who Died on the Battlefield of Honor

May 10, 2012

Chivalry and family heroes helped shape Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.

May 3, 2012

Choice in Liechtenstein: Abortion or royal family?

April 30, 2012

The death of Bayard, the Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche

April 30, 2012

April 26 – Mother of Good Counsel, who inspired the Albanians to resist the Turks

April 26, 2012

The Familial Character of Feudal Government—The King: The Father of His People

April 23, 2012

April 23 – The Original Knight in Shining Armor

April 23, 2012

Don John of Austria was loved as a father by his soldiers and sailors

April 19, 2012

The Catholic Kings’ demand for payment of tribute arrears is rebuffed by Muley Abul Hassan, King of Granada

April 16, 2012

April 17 – The Cistercian Founder and Its Orders of Chivalry

April 16, 2012

Don John of Austria runs away from Court to join the Spanish fleet headed to the relief of Malta

April 12, 2012

The Little Barrel

April 9, 2012

April 4 – Mother of the Templars

April 2, 2012

Gonzalo de Cordoba storms Huejar to put down a Moorish insurrection

March 29, 2012

St. Louis IX in the exercise of justice

March 22, 2012

For 400 years his family had shown honor on the battlefield

March 19, 2012

The Great Captain: Gonzalo Hernandez de Cordova

March 15, 2012

Don Luis Quijada reveals Don John’s secret to Doña Magdalena: he is the son of the Emperor Charles V

March 12, 2012

Saint Joan of Arc’s military genius was of divine inspiration

March 8, 2012

Muley Abul Hassan’s last desperate effort to recapture Alhama, and the lifting of its siege by the Duke of Medina Sidonia

March 5, 2012

King Ferdinand lifts the siege of Loja—in the retreat, Don Juan de Ribera twice saves the king

February 23, 2012

The Duke of Guise throws himself into Poitiers to defend the city

February 20, 2012

Christianity quells the fires of revenge and elicits heroic acts of valor and nobility

February 13, 2012

A nobility and loyalty put to the severest test

February 9, 2012

The “Ave Maria” that was nailed to the door of Granada’s mosque

February 6, 2012

Commentaries on how Don Alonso Peres de Guzman sacrificed his own son rather than surrender to the Muslims

February 6, 2012

Pope Blesses Artillery

February 6, 2012

El Cid is banished from the kingdom of Castile

January 26, 2012

Pius XII: Allocution of January 19, 1944 to the Roman Patriciate and Nobility

January 19, 2012

Commentaries on Charlemagne and St. Willehad of Bremen:

January 19, 2012

Scanderbeg defeats Mahomet II and dies leaving Albania orphan

January 16, 2012

January 13 – The Count Who Converted the King

January 12, 2012

January 6 – St. Joan of Arc was born on this day over 600 years ago

January 5, 2012

Death of a true knight

January 2, 2012

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