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Haag.svg|Hans Fraunberg<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Lord of Haag and Haidenburg</span>
Haag.svg|Hans Fraunberg<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Lord of Haag and Haidenburg</span>
Csapy.svg|András Csapy<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Baron of Eszén and Polyánka</span>
Csapy.svg|András Csapy<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Baron of Eszén and Polyánka</span>
Wartenberg.svg|Vinzenz von Wartenberg<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Colonel Burgrave of Bohemia</span>
Vinzenz von Wartenberg.svg|Vinzenz von Wartenberg<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Colonel Burgrave of Bohemia</span>
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Revision as of 08:37, 16 May 2017

Order of the Dragon was a chivalric order founded in 1408 by Sigismund of Luxembourg.
It was fashioned after the military orders of the Crusades, requiring its initiates to defend the cross and fight the enemies of Christianity, in particular the Ottoman Turks.