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'''''Annunciade''''' ('Annunciation'), and various alternate spellings, is the name of several religious or military orders, including:

:''See also: [[Annunciation]]''

'''Annunciade''' (and various alternate spellings) is a denomination common to several orders, both [[religious order|religious]] and [[military order|military]], instituted with a view of the [[Annunciation]].

==Religious orders==

The* [[Servites]], also known as the ''Servants'' or ''Annunziata'', first religious order of thisits kind was instituted in [[1232]] by seven [[Florence|Florentine]] merchants. These are also called [[Servites]], i.e. ''servants''.

* [[Annunciates of Lombardy]] also called the ''Ambrosians'', the ''Sisters of Saint Ambrose'', or the ''Sisters of Saint Marcellina'', were organized at [[Pavia]] in 1408 by young women from Venice and Pavia, under the direction of Father Beccaria, O.S.B., for the care of the sick.

* [[Order of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary]] is a contemplative order of [[Franciscan]] [[nun]]s founded at [[Bourges]] by [[Joan of France, Duchess of Berry|Joan of France]], after her annulment from [[Louis XII]], with houses throughout France

* [[Archconfraternity of the Annunciation]] was a charitable association founded in 1460 in [[Rome]] by [[cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] [[Torrecremata]]to provide [[dowery|doweries]] to girls from poor families

* [[Order of the Most Holy Annunciation]], also called ''Celestian Annunciades'', is a community of contemplative nuns founded in 1602 in Genoa by Blessed [[Maria Vittoria De Fornari Strata|Maria Vittoria Fornari]]

==Military orders==

The second was a [[nunnery]] at [[Bourges]], founded by [[Jeanne of France (1464-1505)|Jeanne of France]], after her divorce from [[Louis XII]].

The* Knights[[Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation]] was a [[Military order (society)|military order]] instituted in 1350 by [[1350Duke]], by [[Amadeus VI of Savoy|Amadeus]], [[dukeCount of Savoy]]., It was atthe first called the ''Order of the True Lover's Knots,'' in memory of a bracelet of hair presented to the founder by a Ladylady, but upon the election of [[Amadeus VIII]] to the [[pontificate]] in [[1439]], it changed its name for that of the ''Annunciation of the angel [[Gabriel]].''

==See also==

The third was also a nunnery, founded by [[Genoa|Genoese]] Lady in [[1600]].

:''See also:* [[Annunciation]]''

The fourth, a [[friary]], founded by [[cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] [[Torrecremata]] at [[Rome]]. This group became so rich that they gave fortunes of sixty Roman [[crown]]s to over 400 girls, on the anniversary of the Annunciation.

==Military orders==

''Main article: [[Order of the Most Holy Annunciation]]''

The Knights of the Annunciation was a military order instituted in [[1350]], by [[Amadeus VI of Savoy|Amadeus]], [[duke of Savoy]]. It was at first called the Order of the True Lover's Knots, in memory of a bracelet of hair presented to the founder by a Lady, but upon the election of [[Amadeus VIII]] to the [[pontificate]] in [[1439]], it changed its name for that of the Annunciation of the angel [[Gabriel]].

==References==

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