Order of Saint Anthony (Bavaria)
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The Order of Saint Anthony was a Bavarian military order founded in 1382 by Duke Albert of Bavaria.
Albert, who had publicly resolved to war against the Turks, established the order in order to aid in fulfillment of his oath.
The knights of this order wore a collar of gold and a hermit's girdle from which hung a crutch and a little bell.
