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After the medieval era, the exclusive right to confer nobility, titles, knighthoods and membership in Europe's state-recognized orders of chivalry was reserved to sovereigns. The International Commission for Orders of Chivalry (ICOC) maintains a list of which organizations they consider to be genuine chivalric orders. The ICOC also maintains a set of principles to evaluate whether a chivalric o...