The Order of Christian Charity was, supposedly, founded in 1589 by the French King Henry III and was granted to disabled veterans.[1][2]
According to Favin, but wrong according to Bullot & Hélyot, those received in the order were wearing on their coats an anchored-cross embroidery in satin or white taffeta, lined with blue silk, charged in its center with a blue satin diamond, embroidered with a gold fleur-de-lis. Around the cross was embroidered "Pour avoir fidellement servi" ("For having faithfully served").[1]
The knights were entitled to a pension and to shelter and care. The Order should ensure that they could live in Paris adequately and without a care in the hospital of the "Charité Chrétienne".[2] Nothing come much of it, although it was perfectioned by Henry IV of France.[3]
Louis XIII tried a remedy by establishing the "Commanderie Saint-Louis". But, it was only during the reign of King Louis XIV of France, that, after the construction of the Hôtel des Invalides, one has really done something to care for the (military) casualties of the war.[3]
Bullot & Hélyot consider this as a purported Order. They consider only true that an apothecary called Mr Harouel had obtained in 1576 from Henry III, a few places left for sale in the "Hôtel des Tournelles", in order to settle an hospital he wanted to establish under the name of "Charité Chrétienne". As much to shelter homeless poor as to learn to a few orphans, born into legitimate weddings, alphabet and pharmacy. It was finally established in 1586 in the "Faubourg Saint Marcel" but didn't subsist. The hospital existed, not an order.[1]
Sources
1 2 3 Maximilien Bullot & Pierre Hélyot, Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires, et des congregations seculieres de l'un & l'autre sexe, qui ont esté establies jusque'à present, 8th Tome, 6th Part, Chapter LXX, p. 445 Ed. Nicolas Gosselin, Engravings by François de Poilly, Paris, 1719 - Google Booksciting: André Favin, Le Théâtre d'Honneur et de Chevalerie ou Histoire des Ordres militaires..., 1620 (Tome II: Google Books)
1 2 3 Gustav Adolph Ackermann, Ordensbuch, Sämtlicher in Europa blühender und erloschener Orden und Ehrenzeichen. Annaberg, 1855, p 211 n°96. "Orden der christlichen Barmherzigheit" - Google Books (Former orders of France: p.205-214)
1 2 François Frédéric Steenackers, "Histoire des ordres de chevalerie et des distinctions honorifiques en France", Librairie Internationale, Paris, 1868, p.239-243 - Google Books
Palliot, La Vraye et Parfaite Science des Armoiries, 2001
Gourdon de Genouillac, Dictionnaire des ordres de chevalerie, 2008
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