Chivalric and Religious Orders Founded in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Orders founded in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, among them the Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece, a court order of chivalry, and the Society of Jesus, the Catholic religious order that became a leading force in education and missions. An organization belongs here when its cited article gives a founding or establishment date inside this span. It excludes organizations founded earlier or later, which sit in the neighboring groups of the same kind, and it does not turn on how large or long-lived an organization became. Each member is placed by the founding date stated in the article cited for it, so the grouping rests on a quoted source.