The 1805 Garter Installation
23 April was the last instance of a ceremony for the installation of Knights of the Garter held in St George's Chapel before 1948. The chaotic events might explain why there was such a long hiatus.
Category: Order of the Garter
You’re never fully dressed without a Garter
Almost every year since 1948, St George’s Chapel has witnessed the splendid pageantry of a Garter Day procession. The Knights and Ladies of the Order of the Garter walk through the precincts of Windsor Castle for a service in the ...
Degradation of a Garter Knight
As the spiritual home of the Order of the Garter, St George’s Chapel has witnessed many occasions of celebration and thanksgiving for the extraordinary individuals who have been members of the Order in the 670 years since its foundation. Less ...
The mysterious history of the Charles I stall plate
King Charles I was installed as a Knight of the Order of the Garter on 13 May 1611, at the age of ten. He is the only member of the Order ever to have a stall plate mounted in St ...
The 670th anniversary of the Battle of Crécy
670 years ago today, on 26 August 1346, one of the most significant victories in English military history took place – the Battle of Crécy – where, against the odds, Edward III’s army defeated the forces of Philip VI of ...
A king five years ahead of schedule?
On my third day of work experience at the College of St George’s archives on a two-week attachment, I was asked to catalogue the digital photographs which record the various sections of the ‘Tables’ of the Knights of the Garter, ...
Researching medieval Garter robes
To mark St George’s Day on Saturday, research project The Lexis of Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Royal Wardrobe Accounts published an article about the Order of the Garter. The Lexis of Cloth and Clothing is a project designed to ...
The man behind the Black Book
Illumination is a key feature of the Black Book of the Garter which, commissioned by King Henry VIII in 1534, documents the Knights of the Order of the Garter from its origin in 1348 until 1551. Accounts of the household ...
Wanted: Garter robes
In the 1860s Gerald Wellesley, Dean of Windsor, aided by the Chapter Clerk, Mr Thomas Batcheldor, embarked on a campaign to have the blue velvet mantles of former Garter Knights sent to St George’s Chapel. The earliest known statutes of ...
Charming the Emperor
On 7th May 1416, a new member was admitted to the prestigious Order of the Garter at Windsor: Sigismund of Luxembourg, King of Hungary, King of the Romans and future Holy Roman Emperor. Sigismund first came to England in 1416, ...