Royal Military and Hospitaller Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem united
The Royal Military and Hospitaller Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem united (French: Ordre royal de Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel et de Saint-Lazare de Jérusalem) was a chivalric order instituted in 1608 by personal union of the medieval Order of Saint Lazarus in France and the new Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel of King Henry IV of France. The union of the two orders was recognised by a bull of Cardinal Louis, papal legate in France, dated 5.
After the turmoil of the French revolution, the order ceased to enjoy royal protection in 1830.
Legacy
Notwithstanding, the modern ecumenical schisms of Order of Saint Lazarus (statuted 1910) claim legacy from the suppressed French branch with one group under spiritual protection of the Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church[1] and another one under the protection of the [2] Henri d'Orléans the Orleanist claimant to the past crown of France with spiritual protection under a Roman Catholic Cardinal. The Catholic Church does not formally recognize these contemporary factions nor any other non-Vatican sanctioned order regardless of dynastic claim, pedigree, or foundational anitquity (e.g. Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus or the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George).[3]
The different current Military and Hospitaller Orders of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem maintain that after 1830 the French foundation of the Order of Saint Lazarus continued under the governance of a council of officers under the protection of the Melkite Patriarchy.[4] Documentation to the subsequent decades of the 19th-century is scant and equivocal, but the order is documented to have been definitely active philanthropically in Haifa in the mid-19th century,[5] while contemporary biographies do mention late 19th-century individuals as having been members of the Hospitaller Nobles of St. Lazarus. Definite documentation relating the Order of Saint Lazarus appears again in 1910 with the publication of its revised statutes.[6]
References
- ↑ Declaration on the Ninth Centenary of the Royal Recognition of the Order St. Lazarus of Jerusalem, Kevekaer, Germany, 27 May 2012.
- ↑ Pfeifle, F. & de la Martiniere, J.P.G. (2014). Dr. Hans von Leden, Grand Hospitaller of the Order of St. lazarus & Member of the Chivalry Committee. The Augustan Omnibus, vol. XXX , No. 2, Issue # 126, (pp.38-42).
- ↑ Van Duren, Peter Bander. (1995). Orders of knighthood and of merit : the pontifical, religious and secularised Catholic-founded orders and their relationship to the Apostolic See. Gerrards Cross : Colin Smythe publishers
- ↑ Bander van Duren, Peter (1995) Orders of Knighthood and of Merit-The Pontifical, Religious and Secularised Catholic-founded Orders and their relationship to the Apostolic See, Buckinghamshire, ss. 495-513, XLV-XLVII
- ↑ http://issuu.com/mhoslj_library/docs/dumas
- ↑ Rivista Araldica, November 1913, II(II):p.679-683
Litterature
- Olivier Chebrou de Lespinats (2011) Chronologie historique de l'Ordre de Saint-Lazare de Jérusalem (1099-2012), Historimes, ISBN 2-9519131-6-8
- Peter Bander van Duren, Orders of Knighthood and of Merit The Pontifical, Religious and Secularised Catholic-founded Orders and their relationship to the Apostolic See, 1995,
- Henry-Merchior de Langle et Jean-Louis de Treourret de Kerstrat, Les Ordres de Saint-Lazare de Jérusalem et de Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Paris, 1992.
- Gautier de Sibert, Histoire des Ordres royaux hospitaliers-militaires de Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel et de Saint-Lazare de Jérusalem, Paris, 1772, réédité 1983
- Bernard Barbiche, Les Institutions de la monarchie française à l'époque moderne, Paris, PUF, 1999. 2e édition 2001.
Further reading
- Algrant y Cañete, James J.; Beaugourdon, Jean de St. Vincent de (1983). Armorial of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St.Lazarus of Jerusalem. Delft.
- Statement by Gregorios III Patriarch of the Melkite-Greek Catholic Church and Spiritual Protector of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem
- The origins of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus
- The Heraldry and Development of the Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem
- Research Library maintained by the Office of the Grand Archivist & Historian of the united MHOSLJ and E-Library of the International Academy of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. These source provides access to the full original cartulary of the Order with original documents, including all the relevant original Papal Bulls, dating back to the 12th century.
