Definitions

1. Knighthood is designated by the title "Sir" in the United Kingdom.
2. Knighthood is no longer awarded in New Zealand.
3. Knighthood was originally a professional association.
4. The New Knighthood is a fine book.
5. Before any knighthood is presented, the Victoria Cross, as the Highest honour in the Commonwealth is presented to recipients.

Papal Orders

1. Papal Orders of Chivalry are orders of knighthood bestowed by the Pope.

Garter

1. The Most Noble Order of the Garter is a medieval English order of chivalry or knighthood, and the pinnacle of the British honours system.

Title Sir

1. Knighthood carries the title Sir; the female equivalent Dame only exists within the orders of chivalry.

Hereditary Knighthood

1. Hereditary knighthoods in Great Britain and Ireland There are traces of the Continental system of hereditary knighthood in British usage, however. (Web site)

European Knighthood

1. The Scottish Rite cap is a vestige of the dress regalia more commonly associated with orders of European knighthood.

Family

1. In Flanders, there is a famous case of a family of servile (i.e., unfree) origin who entered into knighthood and became castellans of Orders in the 12th c.

Wearing

1. Wearing the ribbon or rosette of a foreign order of knighthood is prohibited if that ribbon is mainly red, like the ribbon of the Légion.

Category

1. Dynastic Orders of Knighthood are a category of order belonging to the heraldic patrimony of a dynasty, often held by ancient right. (Web site)
2. A memory badge is certainly a military decoration but it is not in the same category as an order of knighthood.
3. The other images in this category are all real orders of knighthood.

Receiving

1. The lingering controversy may have prevented Chaplin from receiving a knighthood in the 1930s. (Web site)

Revolutionary

1. Napoleon, in 1802 still a revolutionary, loathed orders of knighthood.

Crusades

1. The origins of orders of knighthood are in the Crusades.

Nobles

1. Once eligibility for knighthood became a monopoly of the nobles, or knightly class, they actually assumed knighthood less and less often. (Web site)

Revealing

1. Revealing himself as Balian's father, Godfrey shows him the true meaning of knighthood and takes him on a journey across continents to the fabled Holy City.

Awards

1. Awards and nominations Albert Finney turned down the offer of a CBE in 1980 and a knighthood in 2000.

Royal House

1. The Order also remained internationally recognised as a dynastic order of knighthood pertaining to the Royal House of Bourbon Two Sicilies.
2. The Royal House of the Two Sicilies today bestows three internationally recognized Orders of Knighthood. (Web site)

Free Online Encyclopedia

1. TD {font-size:10pt} knighthood definition of knighthood in the Free Online Encyclopedia.
2. TD {font-size:10pt} Hereditary knighthood definition of Hereditary knighthood in the Free Online Encyclopedia.

Queen Victoria

1. Not until 1847, however, would his knighthood be restored, by the personal intervention of Queen Victoria. (Web site)

Sir

1. Dame is the female equivalent of address to Sir for a British knighthood.

Status

1. The order confers no knighthood or other status, but recipients of this one-class order are entitled to use the post-nominal letters "CH". (Web site)

Royal Society

1. Awards and Honours Kroto was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990, and was awarded a knighthood (becoming Sir Harold Kroto) in 1996.

Commonwealth

1. In the Commonwealth of Nations, knighthood is a non-heritable form of gentility, but is not nobility. (Web site)

Medieval Period

1. The Holy See has awarded the distinction of knighthood since the early medieval period. (Web site)

United Kingdom

1. The Sultan also can award his subjects the Dato, the equivalent of a knighthood in the United Kingdom, and Datin, the equivalent of damehood. (Web site)

Accolade

1. Furthermore, honorary members and clergymen do not use the accolade of knighthood.

Kingdom

1. The Order of Saint George and Reunion is a order of knighthood of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

Alexander Mackenzie

1. As such, several carry the prefix "Sir" before their name (of the first 8 Prime Ministers, only Alexander Mackenzie refused knighthood).

England

1. King Edward III of England (reigned 1327 – 1377) was known for promoting the codes of knighthood and in 1348 founded the Order of the Garter.

Baronetcy

1. Baronetcy - Similar to a knighthood and carrying the title Sir, the Baronetcy is a hereditary honour.

Ancient Family

1. The " de " in "de Gaulle" is not a nobiliary particle, although the de Gaulle family were an ancient family of ennobled knighthood.

Contribution

1. He became Sir Tom Courtenay in the 2001 New Year Honours, the knighthood in recognition of his contribution to acting.

Sir Richard Branson

1. Branson was awarded a Knighthood in 1999 and became Sir Richard Branson for his contribution to entrepreneurship.

Europe

1. There are many dynastic orders of knighthood, which exist primarily in Europe. (Web site)

Members

1. This order of knighthood has more members than any other; however, the highest grades rank with the most exalted European orders.
2. Its members can wear the Order's insignia, but do not receive any titles of Knighthood or use any post-nominal letters.
3. Government, however, was in the hands of the Knighthood of each province, in which only members of the matriculated nobility held membership.

Knight Bachelor

1. Peerage, Baronetcy and Knighthood ("plain" knighthood or Knight Bachelor) have been all but discontinued in New Zealand. (Web site)
2. He received a knighthood as a Knight Bachelor on July 5, 2000, wearing a hunting tartan kilt of the MacLean of Duart clan.

Services

1. Bloody hell.' On 12 June 1999, Alex Ferguson received a knighthood in recognition of his services to the game.
2. In 2002 his services to football were recognised with a knighthood, and that same year a statue of him was erected in Ipswich. (Web site)

Rank Insignia

1. His rank insignia is a badge portraying the Chandelier and the symbol of the Knighthood. (Web site)

Various Orders

1. Falk is one of many Americans who regularly receive Knighthood in various Orders of Chivalry.

Merit

1. Various orders of knighthood were created (see below) as well as awards for military service, bravery, merit and achievement.
2. This is the craving for distinction that is fostered and satisfied by the granting of patents of nobility, orders of merit, knighthood. (Web site)

Holy Grail

1. It was from Wagner that Hitler gained his affinity for knighthood, chivalry, and the Quest of the Holy Grail, a pagan, Teutonic Grail.

Queen

1. Norgay's grandson Tashi Tenzing said yesterday that his family had always believed that the Queen should have awarded the sherpa a knighthood as well.
2. Technically, a New Zealander can still receive a knighthood or damehood directly from the Queen.
3. June 6, 2003 Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle, where he was awarded an honorary knighthood by the Queen. (Web site)

Buckingham Palace

1. George Shearing will be traveling to London in June to receive his Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace. (Web site)
2. Veteran jazz pianist George Shearing has received his knighthood from the Queen at Buckingham Palace. (Web site)

Knights

1. Although all nobles of military age were necessarily knights, knighthood had to be earned through some exploit involving the use of arms.
2. KNIGHTS OF THE BATH. An ancient and honourable military order of knighthood.

Knight

1. Upon the death of a Knight or Lady, the insignia must be returned to the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood.
2. His name, in the full title of the hereditary knighthood he was given, is Alois Auer Ritter von Welsbach (Knight of Welsbach).

Highest Rank

1. G.C.B. knight grand cross, or dame grand cross, of the Bath, member of the highest rank of knightly class in a British order of knighthood.

Order

1. Queen Elizabeth II conferred on Churchill the dignity of Knighthood and invested him with the insignia of the Order of the Garter in 1953. (Web site)
2. A knight bachelor belongs to the lowest stage of knighthood, not being a member of any specially named order.
3. Dudley Moore was invested as a Commander of the Order of The British Empire (one step below knighthood) in June 2001.

Orders

1. Orders of knighthood, such as the Order of the Bath and the Order of the Garter, still exist in Great Britain. (Web site)
2. Tradition says he was crucified on a cross shaped thus, X. Orders of knighthood have been established in his name (see Knight of Saint Andrew).
3. The collars and badges of Knights and Dames Grand Cross are returned to the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood upon the decease of their owners.

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