How Did a Wash Make a Knight?: Ceremony, Magnificence and Transformation

We are going to be looking at another order of chivalry today – the Order of the Bath.

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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, “Greenery” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIkbW49B6A]

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Linked videos and playlists:
Order of the Garter: https://youtu.be/Vp6JV6HR9Y8

Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1953 to 2022 (variant used as Sovereign of the Order of the Bath) by Sodacan (2014).

The Interior of Henry VII’s Chapel in Westminster Abbey by Canaletto (early 1750s). Held in an undisclosed private collection.

Enamel effigy of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou on his tomb (c.1151). Formerly at Le Mans Cathedral, now in the Museum of Archeology and History in Le Mans.

The coronation of Henry IV of England, from a 15th-century manuscript of Jean Froissart’s Chronicles. Held by the Civic Library of Breslau.

Portrait of Richard II ‘The Westminster Portrait’ by an unknown artist of the English school (1390s). Held at Westminster Abbey.

“Henry of Bolingbroke, flanked by the lords spiritual and temporal, claims the throne in 1399” from Jean Creton, Histoire rimée de Richard II (La Prinse et mort du roy Richart) (1401). Held by the British Library, London, Harley MS 1319.

Reconstructed View of the Tower of London, Edward I’s Completed Outer Wall, 1300 by Ivan Lapper (2002-2003). © Historic Royal Palaces, Tower of London. Photo credit: Historic Royal Palaces, Tower of London [from https://artuk.org/]

St John’s Chapel in the White Tower at the Tower of London, photographed in 2020 by Ethan Doyle White.

The Stone of Scone in the Coronation Chair at Westminster Abbey by an anonymous engraver in The History of England (1859) by D. Hume, continued by T. Smollett, E. Farr and E.H. Nolan. Also published in The Queens of England (c. 1889) by Sydney Wilmot.

Charles II of England in Coronation robes by John Michael Wright (between 1671 and 1676). Held by the Royal Collection; on display at Holyrood Palace.

An etching of “The execution of King Charles I” after an unknown artist (c.1649). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Portrait of King Henry VII by an unknown Netherlandish artist (1505). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Portrait of Elizabeth of York by an unidentified painter, British school (c.1470-98). Held by the Royal Collection, on display at Hampton Court Palace.

Drawing of Perkin Warbeck by an unknown artist of the French School, (16th century). Held by the Bibliotheque Municipale, Arras, France.

A perspective view of the Abbey and Palace of Westminster as they may have looked in the time of Henry VIII, prepared by H. W. Brewer for The Builder magazine; Vol. 47, No. 2180 (November 15, 1884).

16th century woodcut of the coronation of Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon. From Stephen Hawes, A Joyfull Medytacvon to All Englande(1509), printed Wynkyn de Worde, 4to, n.d. (Cambridge University Library).

Artist’s Impression of the Tower of London Site, 1547 by Ivan Lapper (1999). © Historic Royal Palaces, Tower of London. Photo credit: Historic Royal Palaces, Tower of London [from https://artuk.org/]

Near contemporary portrait of Anne Boleyn by an unknown artist (c.1550). Held by Hever Castle.

Photograph of St Edward’s Crown, the centrepiece of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom, taken by Firebrace (2022)

Screenshot from: https://www.rct.uk/collection/441413/neck-badge-of-the-order-of-the-bath

Portrait of King George I from the studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt (1714-1725, based on a work of 1714). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Portrait of the Prince Regent, later King George IV by Sir Thomas Lawrence (c.1814). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Portrait of Queen Victoria by Herbert Smith (1848). Owned by Aberdeen City Council under the curatorial care of Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums.

Screenshot from: https://www.westminster-abbey.org/about-the-abbey/history/order-of-the-bath

Photograph showing the Mantle of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, taken by Nicholas Jackson (2009)

Insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (Civil Division) from Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas’ History of the Orders of Knighthood of the British Empire, of the order of the Guelphs of Hanover; and of the medals, clasps, and crosses, conferred for naval and military service, Volume iii, published in London, 1842. Photo taken by User:Dr_pda (2006)

Insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (Military Division) from same as above.