The Order of the Golden Fleece: Six Centuries of Splendor, Power, Prestige, and Duty
Born amidst fire, faith, and the splendor of Burgundian abundance, the Order of the Golden Fleece rose as Europe’s finest chivalric orders—its flame still burning, uninterrupted, six centuries on!
A Celebratory Birth of a Distinguished Order
In the early days of 1430, the city of Bruges in Flanders, then part of the prosperous Burgundian Netherlands extending across parts of what is today Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and eastern France, witnessed an extraordinary celebration. Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, one of the most powerful prin…