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The Knights of Righteousness are a group of influential business people representing the modern form of the organisation originally formed under a Royal Warrant from Charles I, Holy Roman Emperor (Charlemagne) and thus could be argued to be the oldest established chivalric order in the world. Some historians dispute this as the Order is currently not under Warrant to any extant Royal line and therefore cannot be classed as chivalric, secondly, the Order has admitted members of the Jewish faith and cannot strictly be classed as Christian; a generally accepted requirement for chivalric recognition.
Fundamentally Teutonic in organisation and tradition, the Knights of Righteousness have around 500 members in the United Kingdom and a global membership believed to exceed 7,000. Members are elected by a local Chapter and are selected from like minded individuals of sufficient social, academic or business standing with a military background in the armed forces of any Nation that maintained a ruling Monarch on 2nd April 1742, the 1,000th anniversary of the birth of Charlemagne, their founder. Whilst many members are former officers this is not a requirement.
Former members of the Knights of Righteousness include Les Dawson, Lord Kitchener, Viscount Montgomery and Jimi Hendrix
