Introduction to the Third Issue of the Order of the Garter of the United Kingdom. As we all know, Queen Elizabeth II awarded the Garter Medal to 3 people in the New Year's Day of 2022, including Camilla, Tony Blair and Baroness Amos. Below, we continue to introduce the british Cartellet Chapel.
The Knights of the Order of the Garter are also known as the Order of the Garter, hence the need for a church as a venue for activities. St. George's Church in Windsor is the mother church of the Knights of the Garter and is also the site of special ceremonies associated with the Order of the Order. All members of the Knights of the Order of the Garter are entitled for life to display their coats of arms and banners at St. George's Church, as well as personal armament such as helmets and swords. The Garter stall plates remain permanently inside the church, and the insignia and flag of the late knights will be removed from the church after they are displayed on the high altar. Sometimes, badges and flags are sent to institutions with ties to deceased knights or kept secretly at the wishes of the family. Initially, after the death of a knight, these coats of arms became the property of the Chief Herald of the Guardian, and these badges were occasionally exhibited in the Court of The Earl Marshal of the Heraldry.
Each knight was assigned a tablet compartment at St. George's Church to display his personal tablet, called the Gard Tablet. The Guardian Tablet is a monument to the Knights of the Garters, a small enamel and carved brass plate on which the names and coats of arms of the Knights of the Gard are displayed. The deceased knight's successor also continues to display his tablets in this space, which are preserved from generation to generation. Many other ancient European knights used similar compartments in their family churches or other buildings.
The British monarch could "depose" those members of the Knights of the Order of the Garter who took up arms against the monarch. At the end of the 15th century, the dethronement began to have a formal ceremony, in which the Heraldic Officer of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, accompanied by other heralds, went to St. George's Church. While the Heraldic Officer read the Book of Dethronement aloud, a herald climbed up a ladder, removed the former knight's flag, insignia, helmet, and sword from the wall, and threw them into the choir area. Then the rest of the heralds kicked the rebels out of the church, out of the gates, into the moat of the castle. The last such official ceremony was the dethronation of James, Duke of Ormond, in 1716.
Note: The tablet of Richard Plantagnet, Duke of Gloucester.
During World War I, 2 royal knights and 6 foreign knights, monarchs or princes of all enemy countries, including German Emperor Wilhelm II and Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph, were removed from the list of Knights of the Garter or cancelled in 1915. The flag of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy was removed from the church in 1940 after Italy joined the Axis of World War II against Britain and its allies.
When Japan entered World War II in 1941, the flag of Emperor Hirohito was removed from St. George's Church, but in 1971, when Hirohito paid a state visit to Britain, Elizabeth II restored the flag and its foreign knighthood. The Emperor of Japan was particularly pleased to learn that his Knights of the Gard had been restored.
In addition, Windsor Underground Fort and St. George's Church are one of the best places to travel abroad, and if you have money, time, and visas, you can really fly over and take a look at it and take a critical look at it.