Order of the round table

The Order of the Round Table was a French order. It was donated in 1487 by the citizens of Berry . The assumption that King Arthur founded this order around the year 51 is probably a legend.

The medal was a string of 50 black and gold-plated corals (pater noster), which were strung on a green silk thread. The golden image of the Mother of God emerging from the clouds hung on this thread.

A sheet metal shield bore the knight's name and was also attached to the thread.

literature

• Georg Kruenitz, Friedrich-Jakob Floerke, Heinrich Gustav Floerke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Ludwig Kossarski, Carl Otto Hoffmann: Economic encyclopedia or general system of state, city, house and agriculture. Volume 125, Verlag Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1817, p. 550.

Web links

• Order of the round table in the Economic Encyclopedia of Krünitz

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carl Günther Ludovici: Large complete universal encyclopedia of all sciences and arts. Johann Heinrich Zedler, Leipzig / Halle 1742, p. 1785.