The Royal Military Order of Saint George
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The Royal Military Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Faith and the Immaculate Conception (also known as the Royal Bavarian House Equestrian Order of Saint George, Königlich Bayerischer Haus-Ritter-Orden vom Heiligen Georg in German) was founded by Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria around 1726 to honor the nobility and recognize distinguished civil and military service. Its status as a Catholic Order was confirmed in a Papal Bull of 15 March 1728 – specifically comparing the Order with the Teutonic Order, which had likewise been transformed from a Crusading Order to an exclusive chivalric religious institution for the Nobility. Various Bavarian Princes who in the fifteenth century had made pilgrimages to the Holy Sepulcher and were there invested as knights had each made a promise to Saint George, the patron saint of chivalry. Maximilian’s son, the Elector Karl-Albrecht, gave the new Order its title of Order of the Holy Knight and Martyr Saint George and the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary and established its statutes on March 28, 1729 as a Military Order of Chivalry for Roman Catholic noblemen.
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