Sir Konrad Buob, III

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"Konrad (Knight with Goat) was of the order of the Knights of Malta which was a Christian Knighthood that began as an Amalfitan hospital founded in Jerusalem in 1080 to provide care for poor, sick or injured pilgrims to the Holy Land. After the Western Christian reconquest of Jerusalem in 1099 during the First Crusade it became a religious/military order under its own charter, and was charged with the care and defence of the Holy Land. The monastic hospitaller order was founded following the First Crusade by the Blessed Gerard, whose role as founder was confirmed by a Papal bull of Pope Paschal II in 1113. Gerard acquired territory and revenues for his order throughout the Kingdom of Jerusalem and beyond. His successor, Raymond duPuy de Provence, established the first significant Hospitaller infirmary near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Initially the group cared for pilgrims in Jerusalem, but the order soon extended to providing pilgrims with an armed escort, which soon grew into a substantial force. They became the most powerful Christian groups in the area. The order came to distinguish itself in battles with the Muslims, its soldiers wearing a black surcoat with a white cross.The ideal that Konrad (Buob) Booe, born 1260 carried a crest and shield into battle which displayed a goat, documented by W. Prindle in the 1800s is correct as did his father but this shield was related to an area and not a family shield. The Crest and shield that displayed a crescent, inverted and centered on the shield with three six-pointed stars, one centered over the crescent and one below each point of the crescent carried by his son Eberhard (Buob) Booe born 1298, existed well before the Holy Roman Empire as a family crest and shield. Eberhard Booe did not carry the shield which displays a Goat most likely due to the change which took place as to which knighthood he took. Konrad Booe was a knight in the order or the Malta or Teutonic Knighthood and would have had the shield of the Malta or Teutonic Knights which was white with a black cross displayed on the front, he would have also been representing the area where he lived by a shield which displayed a goat on the front, he would have also carried the family crest and shield which displays the crescent and stars. His son was not in the order of the Malta or Teutonic Knights and so did not carry their shield, he has never been documented or listed as carrying the shield which displayed a goat but the shield and crest which he did carry was tried and proved in court during the 1400s to qualify for a marriage between nobles and was documented by researchers in the 1700s. It is believed that Konrad (Buob) Booe died in battle at Jerusalem by the hands of attacking Muslims as he was defending the walls and so his knighthood in the Malta or Teutonic order would have ended with him but his knighthood as a free Imperial Knight would have passed down to his son as did his vast amount of lands he was lord over. Eberhard (Buob) Booe was being a free Imperial Knight of the Holy Roman Empire not to be confused with the Roman Empire carried the shield and crest of his family name which was the crescent with stars which is true family shields and crest and can be used for personal display and or battle by any person that is a direct descendent and true (Buob) Booe name bearer. The Booe family crest and shield that displays a crescent, inverted and centered on the shield with three six-pointed stars, one centered over the crescent and one below each point of the crescent is the true Booe family shield in design but as to the colors in this shield no one knows because the shield was found on a seal which is pressed into wax. The crest is said to have been the same as the shield with no more detail other then a few lines and perhaps some ambiguous characteristics around the edge."

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