Order of Fools

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The Order of fools , even fools Order or Order of Dudes (L'Ordre des fous) called, was an order of knights in the Duchy of Cleves .

This order was donated on St. Kunibert Day November 12, 1381 (1380) by Count Adolf VI. The foundation was more of a joke and is also understood as an order of the society of fools . The point was in the friendship created by pleasure and the charity that resulted from it.

The medal, embroidered on the clothing, was a fool with a red and silver split cap with yellow bells . The figure was dressed in black shoes. The fool was holding a golden bowl of fruit in his hands.

The meeting was on the day of the Order , the Sunday after Michaelis (September 29th) in Kleve .

Failure to wear the clothes resulted in fines (three tourist groschen ) for helping the poor. Every year six councilors and a “king” were elected.

Originally the order was designed for twelve years. In France, the order was still very popular in 1626. The keeping of a constitution book is said to have served the ridiculous imitation of the knightly order. Many members switched to the Knightly Order of the Holy Rosary.

A letter with the green seals of the 35 knights and the red seal of the founder is to be kept in Kleve.

Associations with the same name were established in Spain and Poland.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 109
  2. ↑ Aristide Michel Perrot, Historical Collection of all still existing knight orders of the different nations, Baumgärtnersche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1821, p. 158
  3. ↑ Kurt von der Aue, Das Rittertum und die Ritter-Orden: or historical-critical presentation of the emergence of chivalry, and a complete description of all existing knightly orders for friends of the history of old and new times, JTJ Sonntag, Merseburg 1825, p.
  4. ^ Christian Gryphius, Kurtzer draft of the ecclesiastical and secular knight orders, Christian Bauch Leipzig & Breslau 1709, p. 478

literature

  • Thomas Fritsch, Short draft of the religious and secular orders of knights Thomas Fritsch, Leipzig 1697, p. 193