K.G., Earl Marshal. The monarch alone can grant membership. Daughter of Thomas (Holland), 2nd Earl of Kent, These members are called "Companions". Married Edmund (Tudor), Earl of Richmond, and was mother So if you wish to be considered, you best stop reading this article and get cracking. (1911). 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To cement this fellowship, "King Arthur's Round Table" describes how the king had a large round table installed at Windsor Castle. There is also a chancellor, garter king of arms, registrar, and gentleman usher of the black rod. Our publication has been reviewed for educational use by Common Sense Education, Internet Scout, Merlot II, OER Commons and School Library Journal. 1477 ELIZABETH, PRINCESS OF ENGLAND, afterwards QUEEN CONSORT OF ENGLAND. Unmarried. For example, by the early 19th century, members of the royal family were admitted as Royal Knights Companions. Daughter of John (Beaufort), Duke de Coucy, Earl of Bedford, K.G., afterwards Duke of Bedford. Membership in the Order is strictly limited and includes the monarch, the Prince of Wales, not more than 24 companion members, and various supernumerary members. The Order can also include certain extra members (members of the British Royal Family and foreign monarchs), known as Supernumerary (or Stranger) Knights and Ladies. The Order of the Garter is worn by the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, all their children, the Duke of Cambridge, and all her cousins. Stranger Knights (i.e. Windsor Castle was to be a new Camelot. Lord Willoughby de Eresby, K.G. 1399 Joan, Countess of Westmorland. The Order originally numbered 26: 12 knights led by Edward, plus 12 knights led by the Prince of Wales. 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They offer that garters were used as a symbol of witchcraft, and the king was merely saving the countess from accusations. Married Sir William Moleyns. Only the queen or king of Britain can name a person to the order, and these people are almost invariably appointed due to long years of public or military service. Married The result, as explained by Britannica, became a notable example of the perpendicular style of Gothic architecture. Daughter of Edward IV. Together with the 14th Regiment of Foot, the 29th was posted to Boston in 1768. Charles IV. When Edward III established the order, he allowed for 26 knights (including himself and his son, the Black Prince), called companions, to be chosen for it. 1390 Lady (Elizabeth) Trivet. All this garb, as described by "The Elizabeth II Pocket Bible," are returned upon the death of a companion. On April 23, 1348, King Edward III of England proclaimed The Order of the Garter on the feast day of St. George, the Patron Saint of England. C.W. K.G. Daughter of John (Fitzalan), Lord Maltravers. From the collar (actually a gold necklace) a representation of a mounted Saint George killing his dragon foe is suspended. Married Eric IX, King of Denmark, K.G. Married 1st Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, K.G. TheInfoList. arm. Thus, Cromwell played matchmaker and set up the king with his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. The service takes place in Windsor. of Lancaster, K.G. As you may have guessed by now, vacancies for the Order of the Garter aren't exactly posted on Indeed.com. Married 1st Thomas (Holland), Married External links, Achievements of select former Knights of the Garter, William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, Reynold Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham of Sterborough, Elizabeth de Mowbray, Countess of Nottingham, lvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches, Margaret Beauchamp, Baroness Beauchamp of Powick, Alfonso V, King of Aragon, Sicily and Naples, Walter Devereux, 8th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, Hercules d'Este, Duke of Modena and Ferrara, Philip, Archduke of Austria and Duke of Burgundy, Gerald Mr FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, Charles, Infant of Spain, Archduke of Austria and Duke of Burgundy, Ferdinand, Infant of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Baron Wriothesley, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, Charles Howard, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham, Henry le Scrope, 9th Baron Scrope of Bolton, Thomas Howard, 1st Baron Howard de Walden, Thomas Scrope, 10th Baron Scrope of Bolton, Henry Frederick, Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, Thomas Howard, 3rd Viscount Howard of Bindon, Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbttel, Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, Bernard de Nogaret de Foix, Duc d'pernon, William Seymour, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, William Cavendish, 1st Marquess of Newcastle, Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg, John Gaspar Ferdinand de Marchin, Comte de Granville, Henry Somerset, 3rd Marquess of Worcester, Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Frederic Herman de Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, William Cavendish, 4th Earl of Devonshire, George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Prince George Augustus of Brunswick-Lneburg, William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough, Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 7th Earl of Dorset, Prince Frederick Louis of Brunswick-Lneburg, Prince Ernest Augustus of Brunswick-Lneburg, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Johann Adolf II, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Charles William Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Henry Pelham-Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Earl of Hertford, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales, Charles William Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbttel, Granville Leveson-Gower, Viscount Trentham, William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield, George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford, Francis Ingram-Seymour-Conway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira, Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Marquess of Wellington, Alexander I, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, Leopold George Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Marquess of Buckingham, George Cholmondeley, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley, Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford, Charles Sackville-Germain, 5th Duke of Dorset, Nicholas I, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond, George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham, Augustus William Maximilian Frederick Lewis, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbttel, Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch, Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster, Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby, Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam, Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland, Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, Frederick William Nicholas Charles, Crown Prince of Prussia, William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam, Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland, George Brudenell-Bruce, 2nd Marquess of Ailesbury, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne, Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine, Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, Alexander II, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, Hugh Grosvenor, 3rd Marquess of Westminster, Ernst August of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Alexander III, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, William Compton, 4th Marquess of Northampton, Algernon Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland, William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny, Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry, Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovich of Russia, Gavin Campbell, 1st Marquess of Breadalbane, Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, also Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, William Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts, Frederick William Victor Augustus Ernest, Crown Prince Imperial of Germany, Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, Prince Emanuel Philibert of Savoy, Duke of Aosta, Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany, also Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland, Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond, Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Earl Carrington, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Earl of Crewe, William Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton, Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, Adolf Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield, George Curzon, 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston, Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent, H. H. Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, Harold Alexander, 1st Viscount Alexander of Tunis, Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland, Wentworth Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale, William Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville, William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor, A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory, Geoffrey Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave, R.A. Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale, Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk, Gordon Richardson, Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne, James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, Lavinia Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley, John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers, Eliza Manningham-Buller, Baroness Manningham-Buller, Charles Kay-Shuttleworth, 5th Baron Shuttleworth, Willem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, List of current members of the Order of the Garter, List of Knights and Ladies of the Thistle, List of Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, List of Knights and Dames Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, List of Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, The Society of the Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter, St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle: Order of the Garter, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_knights_and_ladies_of_the_Garter&oldid=1133600711, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Sovereign of the order upon establishing it, Later Earl of Bedford. This includes any of the 24 spots that may be open and also any supernumeraries. It is the world's oldest national order of knighthood in continuous existence and the pinnacle of the British honours system (after the Victoria Cross and George Cross). Oxford Reference notes that this last position is also responsible for maintaining order in the House of Lords, presumably with his black rod. The star may be worn with a wide blue ribband or sash across the wearer's left shoulder. The coat of arms of a member, which may have to be created by the Royal College of Arms if the holder does not yet have one, is hung in Saint Georges' chapel in Windsor Castle, the religious headquarters, as it were, of the order. Cromwell was the first to be punished in such a way. (de Vere), 8th Earl of Oxford, who died 1371. Served in the wars against the Scots, the Dutch, and French. If there are to be any new knights invested in the order, there is a morning service in the Throne Room of Windsor Castle. Married Sir Every Photo from the Order of the Garter Service 2019 1 All the Red-Carpet Looks at the 2023 Golden Globes 2 The Best Beauty Moments from the Golden Globes 3 Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama Is Back. 2021 Associated Newspapers Limited. Married Edmund of Langley, Earl of Cambridge, K.G., afterwards Duke Memorials of the Order of the Garter. One view is that it is not actually a garter at all but a sword belt, and it is true that in many depictions of the order's arms the garter has a buckle. 1386 Constance, Lady le Despencer. Married Lewis, Duke of Bavaria. In addition to this article, be sure to check out The Queen's Orders of Chivalry - a wonderful column written several years ago by Paul James. Married Henry VII, King of England. the ratte and Lovell our dogge Rulyth all Englande According to the Royal Family website, all the knights and ladies of the order come in full, robed regalia and start the day in the Windsor Castle throne room where the sovereign formally invests new members in a private ceremony. The monarch then takes the blue garter and fastens it to the knee (in men) or on the elbow (in women). The Orders emblem is a blue ribbon or garter men wear it below the left knee and women position it on their left arm. St. George's College reports that there have been a total of 40 knights who have undergone degradation for a variety of reasons. Female members are called "Lady Companions". Married William of Bavaria, Duke of Holland and Count On men, it is worn on the left leg below the knee. Other members include, The Lord King of Lothbury, a former governor of the Bank of England and Field Marshal Lord Inge, the British Armys former Chief of Defence. 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