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• Military Orders of Saint Hubert —     Military Orders of St. Hubert     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Military Orders of St. Hubert     I. The highest order of Bavaria, founded in 1444 or 1445 by Gerhard V, Duke of Jülich, in commemoration of a victory gained on St. Hubert s day (3… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Order of Saint Hubert — Collar of the Grand Master, plus exemplars of the Knights Cross, Order of Saint Hubert Awarded by Duke of Bavaria Type …   Wikipedia

• St. Hubert —     St. Hubert     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Hubert     Confessor, thirty first Bishop of Maastricht, first Bishop of Liège, and Apostle of the Ardennes, born about 656; died at Fura (the modern Tervueren), Brabant, 30 May, 727 or 728. He was …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Royal Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Immaculate Conception — The Royal Military Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Faith and the Immaculate Conception was founded by Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria in 1726 to provide for a means of honouring the nobility and recognizing distinguished… …   Wikipedia

• Canadian Forces Military Police — Opperational Patrol Dress Shoulder Patch of the CF Military Police …   Wikipedia

• Hubertus — Saint Hubert redirects here. For other uses, see Saint Hubert (disambiguation). For other uses, see Hubertus (disambiguation). Saint Hubertus Possibly an image of St Hubertus in a 13th century English manuscript (This image may depict Saint… …   Wikipedia

• Chivalric order — Chivalric orders are societies and fellowships of knights[1] that have been created by European monarchs in imitation of the military orders of the Crusades. After the crusades, the memory of these crusading military orders became idealised and… …   Wikipedia

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