Order of the Rabbit Knights
The Order of the Hare Knights (English Knights of the Hare ) was an English secular order of knights . He belongs to the curious order and was supposedly in 1338 by King Edward III. donated.
In a battle during the Hundred Years War , the English were under Edward III. and the French under the leadership of Philippe de Valois . From the ranks of the French, a hare fled onto the battlefield. The French accompanied this with loud roars. On the English side, this was taken as a sign of attack. Thereupon the Lord von Hainault appointed fourteen men to be knights. However, the attack did not take place and the knights were then called Rabbit Knights. However, there was probably no permanent order with this name.
literature
- Ferdinand von Biedenfeld, history and constitution of all spiritual and secular, extinct and flourishing knight orders ..., Volume 1, Verlag Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1841, p. 100 ( excerpt in the Google book search)
- Gustav Adolph Ackermann: Order book of all in Europe flourishing and extinct orders and decorations . Rudolf & Dieterici, 1855, p. 214 ( excerpt in the Google book search)
- George Payne Rainsford James: A history of the life of Edward the Black Prince, and of various events connected therewith which occurred during the reign of Edward III, King of England . Green & Longman 1836, p. 168 ( excerpt from Google book search)
- Robin Neilland: The Hundred Years War . Routledge 2001, ISBN 9780415261319 , pp. 79–80 ( excerpt from Google book search)
- Richard W. Barber: The Reign of Chivalry . Boydell Press 2005, ISBN 9781843831822 , p. 16 ( excerpt from Google book search)