Order of the Bath Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (formerly the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath) is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as "Knights of the Bath". George I "erected the Knights of the Bath into a regular Military Order". He did not (as is commonly believed) revive the Order of the Bath, since it had never
The King of Tars that case, the reluctance springs from his age, and the work is less consistently religious. The deformed child is also in common with the romance "Theseus of Cologne", where rivals use the child to accuse the queen of adultery, but the child is also restored by miracle. The King of Tars exists in three manuscripts: Auchinleck: Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 19.2.1, fols. 7ra–13vb. Vernon: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng.poet.a.1, fols. 304vb–307ra. Simeon: London, British Library, Additional 22283, fols. 126rc–128va. The King of Tars The King of Tars is a medieval English chivalric romance, an amplified version of the oldest