The choice of Saint George as patron saint of the order may suggest a degree of personal involvement in the Brotherhood by King Edward IV, who had a keen interest in the cult of that particular saint.
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Apart from Lord Howth, who had a connection by marriage to the new Tudor dynasty, almost all the nobility associated with the Brotherhood supported the claims of the Yorkist pretender Lambert Simnel, and some of them followed him to his crushing defeat by Henry VII at the Battle of Stoke in 1487.
In 1474 he was a founder member of the Brotherhood of Saint George, a short-lived military guild which was charged with the defence of the Pale (the part of Ireland under secure English control), and which was for some years the only English standing army in Ireland.
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