Order of the Faith and Peace
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The Order of the Faith and Peace or Order of the Sword was a
military order in Gascony
in the mid-13th century.
The order was first mentioned by
Archbishop of Auch. Since Amanieu had been appointed to his see in 1226, the date of the foundation must be located in 1226–1231. Gregory had sent a letter to Amanieu in 1227 exhorting him to establish the peace, which may have prompted the founding of an order of knighthood. Amanieu and the order's earliest members travelled to Rome
in 1231 and there received confirmation from Gregory.
The order had properties mainly west of
Gaston VII.[1]
The order seems to have struggled to remain viable. In 1262 its master attempted to amalgamate it with the
Amanieu II, tried to save the organisation in 1268 by purchasing for it a hospital at Pont d'Artigues from the Order of Santiago and appointing his nephew as master. The order was dissolved by Gregory X
in 1273 and its possessions ended up largely in the hands of the Order of Santiago and the church of Auch, though Les Feuillants laid claim to some.
There may be a vernacular, narrative reference to the Order in the Occitan vida of the troubadour Peire Guillem de Tolosa, who was said to have entered the ordre de la Spaza (probably "order of the Sword").
historical order of France
and proposes 1229 as founding year.
Bibliography
- Forey, Alan J. (1989). "The Military Orders and Holy War against Christians in the Thirteenth Century." The English Historical Review, 104:410 (January), pp. 1–24.
- Forey, Alan J. (1992). The Military Orders: From the Twelfth to the Early Fourteenth Centuries. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-2805-1.
- Gustav Adolph Ackermann, Ordensbuch, Sämtlicher in Europa blühender und erloschener Orden und Ehrenzeichen. Annaberg, 1855, p 208 n°76. "Orden des Friedens und Glaubens" - Google Books (Former orders of France : p. 205-214)