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Order of the Jar

Golden jar of lilies with a griffin, the device of the order from the armorial of Hendrik van Heessel.

The Order of the Jar (Spanish: Orden de la Jarra, German: Kannenorden) was a chivalric order founded by Ferdinand of Antequera in 1403. After Ferdinand became King of Aragon in 1412, it became a royal order and lasted until 1516.[1]

  1. ^ D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton, The Knights of the Crown: The Monarchical Orders of Knighthood in Later Medieval Europe, 1325–1520 (Boydell, 2000), pp. 330ff.
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