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unusual facts about knighthood



Amer Khammash

Queen Elizabeth II also presented him with an Associate Knighthood of the Venerable Order of Saint John.

Angelus Silesius

Stanislaus dedicated his life to the military was made Lord of Borowice (or Vorwicze) and received a knighthood from King Sigismund III.

Antonio Isopi

When, in 1806, Württemberg became a kingdom King Friedrich I commissioned his royal sculptor Isopi, who had been raised to knighthood, to create monmental sculptures of the two heraldic animals, stag and lion.

Apolo Kagwa

He was the first African to receive the honour of knighthood.

Bushbury

The Northicote School is located in this area, where previous headteacher Geoff Hampton received a Knighthood in 1998 in recognition of his services to the improvement of the school and his services to education.

Castle chapel

Castle chapels were usually consecrated to saints, especially those associated with knighthood, such as Saint George or Saint Gereon.

Christian Friele

Friele was twice in his life offered a knighthood of the Order of St. Olav; he rejected both offers.

DCPO

Dame Commander of the Pontifical Order of Pius IX, female variant of a class in one of the orders of knighthood of the Holy See;

DCSG

Dame Commander of Saint Gregory, female variant of a class in one of the orders of knighthood of the Holy See;

DCSS

Dame Comander of Saint Sylvester, female variant of class in one of the orders of knighthood of the Holy See

Englischer Garten

To advise on the project, the Royal Gardener Friedrich Ludwig Sckell (von Sckell from his knighthood in 1808) who had studied landscape gardening in England and had previously worked for Carl Theodor at Schwetzingen, had been summoned to Munich earlier in August.

Faule Grete

Borrowed by Margrave Frederick I of Brandenburg in 1413, the cannon was instrumental in breaking the opposition of the domestic knighthood within three weeks, allowing Fredrick to lay the foundation for the rise of his Hohenzollern dynasty which later came to rule Prussia and the Deutsches Reich.

Franklin Miller

He has received the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit in the grade of Grand Officer, the French Legion of Honor in the grade of Officer, and, in December 2006, he was awarded an honorary knighthood, a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE), by Queen Elizabeth II.

Geoff Hampton

Sir Leslie Geoffrey Hampton (born 1952), best known as Sir Geoff Hampton, is a British head teacher who gained notability in March 1998 when he received a knighthood in recognition for his achievements as head teacher of Northicote School in Wolverhampton, West Midlands.

Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara

Knighthood in the Order of Saint-Charles, received from H.S.H. the Prince Albert II of Monaco on 17 November 2009, for services rendered to the Principality in his quality of Chair of the Scientific Committee of the "Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area".

Glenmore Trenear-Harvey

In June 2005, Trenear-Harvey was conferred with a knighthood in the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus from HRH the Duke of Savoy.

Hans Joachim Friedrich von Sydow

Lieutenant General Hans Joachim Friedrich von Sydow (13 May 1762 in Zernikow / Nordwestuckermark – 27 April 1823) was a Prussian officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars He was honoured with a knighthood and the Blue Max (Pour le Mérite).

Jack Egerton

An outraged Whitlam would later say the knighthood was "the most inappropriate conferral of the title since Queen Elizabeth I knighted Sir Toby Belch".

John Bramley-Moore

After the opening of the Albert Dock by Prince Albert in 1846 he was offered a knighthood, which he declined.

John Colepeper, 1st Baron Colepeper

He was knighted, and was elected member for Kent in the Long Parliament, when he took the popular side, speaking against monopolies on 9 November 1640, being entrusted with the impeachment of Sir Robert Berkeley on 12 February 1641, supporting Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford's attainder, and being appointed to the committee of defence on 12 August 1641.

John de Bourchier

Bouchier is first mentioned as deputed by Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford (1257-1331) to represent him in the parliament summoned in 1306 for the purpose of granting an aid on the occasion of the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward II (1307-1327)) receiving knighthood.

KCPO

Knight Commander of the Pontifical Order of Pius IX, a class in one of the orders of knighthood of the Holy See

Kelvin Davies

By order of French president Nicolas Sarkozy, in 2012 Davies was awarded French knighthood when he and fellow USC professor Enrique Cadenas, M.D., Ph.D. were named chevaliers of l'Ordre National du Mérite.

KSG

Knight of St. Gregory, a class in one of the orders of knighthood of the Holy See

Lía Bermúdez

She been awarded the Order of the Liberator Knighthood, an award from the University of Carabobo, Zulia Governor's Award, Order of Maracaibo City in the first class, Order of Francisco de Miranda, Ana Maria Campos decoration and the National Prize of Plastic Arts of Venezuela 2007 amongst others.

Martin Doughty

He received a knighthood in 2001 for services to local government in Derbyshire followed by Honorary Doctorates from Sheffield Hallam University in 2002, Cranfield University in 2005 and Derby University in 2006.

Medieval accolade

Accolade (also known as dubbing or adoubement), the central act in the rite-of-passage ceremonies conferring knighthood in the Middle Ages

Michael Ogio

On 26 April 2011, Queen Elizabeth II conferred the honour of Knighthood and invested him as Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George on his appointment as Governor-General of Papua New Guinea at Windsor Castle.

Michael Voris

In 2011 Voris was inducted into the Knighthood of the Royal Order of St. Michael of the Wing, by the Royal House of Portugal.

MVO

Member of the Royal Victorian Order, a British order of knighthood (post-nominal letters: MVO)

National Order of the Ivory Coast

The National Order of the Ivory Coast (sometimes simply mentioned as National Order) is the highest state order of knighthood of the Ivory Coast.

Order of the Four Emperors

Orders of knighthood, Awards and the Holy See by Peter Bander van Duren and Archbishop H.E. Cardinale (Apostolic Delegate in the United Kingdom), Buckinghamshire 1985.

Orders of knighthood for women

Though many kingdoms, such as Great Britain or the Netherlands, allow both men and women to be invested with the same orders of knighthood, orders in other kingdoms were exclusive for men.

Ordre du Croissant

René was one of the champions of the medieval system of chivalry and knighthood, and this new order was (like its English rival) neo-Arthurian in character.

Raffaele Belliazzi

The Italian government awarded him knighthood in the Order of the Crown of Italy.

Secular and Nationalist Jinnah

Jinnah considered politics as a gentleman's passion: he refused to attend and even condemned the Bombay Bar Association meeting held to celebrate the award of Knighthood to Justice Davar because he had joined the Government in convicting a nationalist leader Bal Gangadhar Tilak earlier.

Stolzenfels Castle

Supported by famous neoclassic architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the castle was completely remodeled in the then fashionable neo-Gothic style, aiming to create a romantic place representing the idea of medieval knighthood - the architects even created a tournament site.

The Society of the Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter

The society includes more than 5,100 members worldwide (including more than 900 AmFriends members of the American Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter Inc.) to "protect, preserve and enhance" the college, its St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle and the royal chivalric knighthood, the Order of the Garter.

Themistocles Zammit

His 1905 discovery of contaminated milk as the vector for transmission to humans of brucellosis melitensis present in the blood of the goat greatly contributed to the elimination from the islands of undulant fever, earning him the knighthood.

Tilly Kettle

He also painted non-portraits, including Dancing Girls (Blacks) in 1772 and a suttee scene in 1776 entitled, The ceremony of a gentoo woman taking leave of her relations and distributing her jewels prior to ascending the funeral pyre of her deceased husband. In 1770 Kettle painted a half-length portrait of 'Sir' Levett Hanson, a peripatetic writer on European knighthood and chivalry originally from Yorkshire.

UCL Institute of Child Health

Professor Sir Cyril Chantler, received a knighthood for his services to medicine in 1996, and was appointed Chairman of the Board of Great Ormond Street Hospital and ICH.

Urquía

The first: In a foil cross Gules (red), a band of gold (symbol of knighthood and cross from the right shoulder) pompous in dredger (2 dragons) Vert (green, is a symbol of strength) and accompanied on top of a silver arm with a silver dagger and a gold lining.

William Frederick Chambers

Ernest, the new king of Hanover, on 8 August 1837 created him KCH; but at his urgent request allowed him to decline the assumption of the ordinary prefix of knighthood.


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