Late Middle Ages · Europe · Politics

1408

Order of the Dragon Founded

1408

King Sigismund of Hungary established a chivalric order dedicated to defending Christendom against the Ottoman Turks and suppressing heresy within its borders. Its members wore a coiled dragon insignia on their cloaks. Among its inductees was Vlad II of Wallachia, whose epithet Dracul, the Dragon, would pass to his infamous son Vlad III, remembered by history as Dracula, the son of the Dragon.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1407: Bethlem Royal Hospital Expands in London
After: 1409: Council of Pisa Elects a Third Pope

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1407: Bank of Saint George Chartered in Genoa
After: 1409: Ayutthaya Expands into Malay Peninsula

Era

Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Order of the Dragon