Order of the White Lady (France)

Boucicaut's coat of Arms

The French Marshal Jean Le Maingre ("Boucicaut") fought throughout Europe. Saracens - one would now speak of Arabs - refrained from attacking Boucicaut in Tunis when two "beautiful women in white robes fell from heaven with, into their hands, a flag with a red cross."

In memory of this event, experienced by him as a divine intervention, Boucicaut founded the "Order of the White Lady" around 1400 . Boucicaut founded the order so that the knights "could always support the weaker sex."

Like many of the fourteenth and fifteenth century orders, this order has also not long existed.

See Emprise de l'Escu vert à la Dame Blanche

Source

• "Libre des faits de Boucicaut" issued in 1620 by Theodore Godefroy.