Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, 1546.

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Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Counts, Ensigns.

The Guelderian Wars. State-entry of Emperor Charles V into Nijmegen municipality. The Netherlands, 1546.

Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Counts, Ensigns.

Plate 7.

78-85. Ensigns
86. Philippe de Lalaing, Count of Hoogstraten, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece etc.
87. Oswald II, Count van den Berg
88. Joost, Count of Bronckhorst.

Source: Costume cavalcade, has held by members of the Leidsch Studenten Corps, at 24th of June 1890, commemmorating the 300th anniversary of Leyden University, re-living the State-entry of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), into Nijmegen municipality, the Netherlands, 9th February 1546.

Literature:

Journal of Medieval Military History, Volume 10. Boydell Press, by Clifford J. Rogers, Kelly DeVries, et al.

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