Order of the Lioness at Naples
The Order of the Lioness (at Naples) ( Italian Ordine della Leonessa or Ordine della Leonza ) was an order of knights founded in 1388 . The order only existed for a short time.
Leonessa is the Italian word for lioness . The name Leonza was used by ancient writers for unspecified animals with lion-like or generally cat-like loins.
The order was founded by Neapolitan private people and nobles who were the Queen Margaret of Naples , widow of Charles III. , were well-meaning. After the death of her husband in 1386, Margarethe exercised the custody of Naples for her son Ladislaus and fled into exile in Gaeta in 1387 .
The order decoration was a silver or golden lioness with bound feet. The medal was worn on a ribbon on the chest.
In Naples there is the tomb of Arimanni Pignone, a Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Leonza , from 1415. The order also included Marino Rocco del Seggio di Montagna, Martuccio Bonifacio, Castellan of Castel dell'Ovo , Niccolò Aldemari from the Valle del Cilento , Son of Francesco di Firenze Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella , said Arimanni as well as Rostaino Pignone, Francesco Ponzetto and finally the heads of the families d'Anna, Fellapane, Gattola, Liguori, Sassone and Scannasorice.
literature
- Compagnia, or Ordine della Leonessa. Volgarment detta dell Leonza. In Napoli. In: Bernardo Giustinian: Historie cronologiche dell'origine degl'ordini militari e di tutte le religioni Caualleresche. Venice 1692, pp. 705–709. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
- Mariano d'Ayala: Napoli militare, Stamperia dell. Iride, 1847, p. 339. ( limited preview in Google book search)
- The Order of the Lioness at Naples. In: Johann Georg Krünitz : Economic-technological encyclopedia . Berlin 1817, p. 553 ( limited preview in Google book search)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ordini dell'Argata e della Leonza. Nobili-Napoletani.it.
- ↑ leónza (o lïónza). Treccani.it - Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.