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Odrovons.svg|Krzysztof Szydłowiecki<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Szydłowiec</span>
Odrovons.svg|Krzysztof Szydłowiecki<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Szydłowiec</span>
Bathory Ancient.svg|Stephen III Báthory<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Palatine of Hungary</span>
Bathory Ancient.svg|Stephen III Báthory<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Palatine of Hungary</span>
Brzeg.svg|Ludwik II of Legnica and Brzeg<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Duke of Legnica and Brzeg</span>
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Revision as of 15:26, 26 December 2021

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.