Bandes d'ordonnance (French) or Benden van ordonnantie (Dutch) were elite heavy cavalry formations recruited from the aristocracy in the early-modern Low Countries. They were originally formed by
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and became an integral part of the military organization of the Low Countries from the mid-fifteenth to late-sixteenth centuries, up to the first years of the
Eighty Years' War
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt ( nl, Nederlandse Opstand) ( c.1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war included the Refo ...
. They continued to exist into the seventeenth century with far less military importance, although a command in a ''Bande d'ordonnance'' was still a considerable social distinction.
References
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Baron Guillaume,
Histoire des Bandes d'Ordonnance des Pays-Bas' (Brussels, Académie royale de Belgique, 1873)
*D. J. B. Trim, "Army, Society and Military Professionalism in the Netherlands", in ''The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism'', 2003, pp. 279-280.
*
H.F.K. van Nierop, ''The Nobility of Holland'', 1993, p. 160.
*Fernando González de León, ''The Road to Rocroi'', 2009, pp. 23-24.
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Vinkhuijzen Collection of Military Costume Illustration contains the following images:
Bande d'ordonnance of Charles the Bold, 1473Bande d'ordonnance of Charles V, 1543Lancers of the ''bandes d'ordonnance'', 1572Man at arms of the ''bandes d'ordonnance'', 1608
Military units and formations of the Early Modern period
Cavalry units and formations
Eighty Years' War