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You are most cordially welcomed to The Internet Chivalry and Knighthood Information Center sponsored by The Ducal House of Maxalla. The Ducal House is pleased that you are visiting and hopes that you find the information on this site useful and interesting.
This web site was created for the purpose of offering accurate, authentic, scholarly, well-researched, and unbiased information about modern heraldry, chivalry (knights and knighthood), and bona fide nobility, and royalty. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY PURPOSE
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THE INTERNET CHIVALRY AND KNIGHTHOOD INFORMATION CENTER?Here you will find accurate and objective articles about the field of chivalry, information about heraldry and properly obtaining Arms, and current news about Knights and Chivalry. Additionally, this web site offers information and news about The Knights of the Holy Sepulchre.
NOTE:All information at this web site is accurate and is written by responsible knights and nobility who are active in the field. This web site is free of the bias and misrepresentation that can be found at certain other tabloid-style web sites operated by Order Assassins and Order Grumps whose information on Chivalry and Chivalric Orders suffers from error, arrogance, prejudice, discourtesy, polemics, propaganda, and deliberate disinformation.
Those who are interested in Knightly Orders and those who are interested in nobility and royalty will find this site to be a reliable and scholarly resource. All information is without bias and verifiable and is offered without ulterior motive. The supervisor of this web site is the Duke of Maxalla who is clearly identified below.
You are invited to visit the Medieval Information Sources Book Shop which, in association with Amazon.com Books, offers reliable and authoritative books on heraldry, chivalry, nobility, and monarchy.
Have you ever wondered...
The answers to these and many more questions can be found in this section of several fresh and original articles.
The Internet Chivalry and Knighthood Information Center provides these articles as a source of scholarly and dependable information on chivalry, nobility, and royalty.
New and revised articles are posted regularly. To receive notice of new and revised articles, please request that your name be added to the eMail distribution list (see below). Each article is copyrighted, but you may download and print one free archival copy for your personal use. Otherwise, articles can not be distributed or reproduced in any form.
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Three articles have been significantly revised and posted on March 30, 2000.
In order for you to judge the accuracy and reliability of the information provided by any web site, it is important that you know something about the credentials and background of the person who supervises the web site. To that end, and no other, is information about the Head and Chief of Arms of The Ducal House of Maxalla provided.
The Religious and Military Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem is an international and ecumenical Christian Order of Chivalry, Eastern Orthodox in origin and chartered in 1982. Now in its second decade, the Order's membership consists of Christians of all denominations and lists among its Knights royalty, nobility, bishops, priests, ministers, retired members of the Armed Forces, educators and scholars, award-winning novelists and writers, professional and business people, and men and women who are successful in their various fields and careers.
To learn more about this Order of Chivalry, its history, purposes, and goals, click HERE. The history has several links to a wide range of information related to Sepulchre Knighthood. This information covers the various Sepulchre Orders from medieval times to the present. Hailed by objective readers and historians as "the most interesting, most unbiased information available on this topic."
This electronic newsletter reports the events and activities of the Order, the Bailiwicks of the Order, and the achievements of the Order's Knights. Gallantry also contains news of interest to the Chivalric community in general. You can also access past issues of Gallantry.
To go to Gallantry, click HERE.
To submit news to Gallantry, click HERE.
If you are an adult and have questions regarding chivalry, nobility, and royalty, the Noble House can provide answers that are prompt and accurate. To submit questions, click HERE.
School children writing papers, please note: you must do your own homework. For a list of excellent books on the topics of heraldry, chivalry, knighthood, and monarchy, click HERE.
You may also wish to try the links below. We have examined all the links listed for value, honesty, and interest to the Chivalric Community, and we do not provide links that are untrustworthy, have a secret agenda, nor do we give links that are merely polemical or links whose purpose is merely to insult and misinform others (see the article Order Assassins and Order Grumps).
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