Orders

12 military and chivalric orders, from the crusader states and the Iberian kingdoms. Their foundation, suppression, transformation and present status are kept distinct — a modern body using an old name is not assumed to be the same institution.

Monastic and other religious orders are not covered yet — kinds of religious order
Military and chivalric orders 12 in the Atlas
Brotherhoods whose members took religious vows and also bore arms, founded in the crusader states and the Iberian kingdoms from the twelfth century, and the orders of knighthood that grew out of them or claim them.
Monastic orders in preparation
Communities of monks or nuns living a stable common life of prayer and work under a rule — in the West chiefly the Rule of Benedict (Benedictines, Cistercians and Trappists), and the Carthusians. Eastern monasteries follow traditions going back to Pachomius and Basil and are not usually grouped into separate orders.
Canons regular in preparation
Priests living in community under a rule, usually the Rule of Augustine, and serving churches — for example the Augustinian canons and the Premonstratensians.
Mendicant orders (friars) in preparation
Friars who own little in common, live by work and alms and preach in the towns, from the thirteenth century: Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites and the Augustinian friars.
Clerks regular and apostolic congregations in preparation
From the sixteenth century onwards: priests organised for preaching, teaching and mission rather than a monastic life, such as the Jesuits, and the many later congregations of sisters and brothers devoted to teaching, nursing and mission.

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