Nobel Guard

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Papal Nobel Guard in honor uniform

A noble guard used to be a princely bodyguard , which consisted exclusively of nobles. Important noble guards were

  • in Vienna the Royal Hungarian Nobel Guard (also "Hungarian Nobel Guard") and the "Galician Nobel Guard". They existed until 1918.
  • the Guardia Nobile of the Holy See . It existed since 1801 and was founded in 1970 by Pope Paul VI. dissolved because he wanted to reduce the cost of representation. The relatives could now serve the Pope in tails . It consisted exclusively of young members of the Roman nobility and was a mounted bodyguard until 1870.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Apostleship of Prayer, Emissary of the Divine Heart of Jesus, Volume 30 , Franziskaner-Fätern, 1903, page 26

literature

  • Gaetano Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da San Pietro ai nostri giorni , vol XXXIII, Tipografia Emiliana, Venezia, 1845, ( available online )