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№108 Knight Crest Heavy Cotton Hoodie · Live Your Best Knight · Temperantia Fiducia Perseverantia

№108 Knight Crest Heavy Cotton Hoodie · Live Your Best Knight · Temperantia Fiducia Perseverantia

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The Knight No. 108 crest on a unisex heavy cotton pullover hoodie, 80/20 fleece, for anyone who keeps their word, holds their line and does not fold when it gets hard. On it, the No. 108 crest: the talbot hound, the bridle and the triquetra on a shield under the Latin banner, drawn in the high Burgundian engraving manner.

The hoodie is the piece that gets borrowed and not returned: medium-heavy fleece, a three-panel hood, ribbed cuffs and waistband. Buy one for the cold morning and one for the person who will take it.

Temperantia, Fiducia, Perseverantia: temperance, trust, perseverance. Three Latin nouns that did not begin together but ended together, carried into the late medieval period by bestiaries, monastic rules and the hard practice of men who had to keep faith on long roads. Read the banner bottom to top and you have the medieval blueprint of how a soul is built. Trust is the seed. Perseverance is the holding. Temperance is the hand on the rein.

Each word has its emblem on the shield. The talbot hound at the top stands for fidelity, drawn from Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae of about 625 and repeated in the Aberdeen Bestiary around 1200. The bridle at the heart is heraldry's sign of temperance, codified in Ripa's Iconologia of 1593. The triquetra at the foot, one endless line in three arcs, appears in the Book of Kells around 800 and stood for the perseverance Renaissance emblem books captioned nunquam frangitur, never broken. The device is drawn in the high Burgundian engraving manner.

Unisex pullover hoodie made from a medium-heavy fleece for warmth and durability. Regular fit with a three-panel hood, ribbed cuffs and waistband, and double-needle stitching at key seams; tear-away label. Runs true to size for adults. Fabric is 80% combed ring-spun cotton / 20% polyester; heather colors may use cotton–poly blends.


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QUICK FACTS — THE KNIGHT NO. 108 CREST HEAVY COTTON HOODIE

Series: Knight No. 108

Art: The No. 108 crest: the talbot hound, the bridle and the triquetra on a shield under the Latin banner, drawn in the high Burgundian engraving manner

Blank: Unisex pullover hoodie, medium-heavy fleece, regular fit

Fabric: 80% combed ring-spun cotton / 20% polyester; heathers cotton–poly

Details: Three-panel hood, ribbed cuffs and waistband, tear-away label

Sizes: XS, S, M, L, XL, 2XL

Colors: 11 offered

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By the high medieval period the three words had been put to work on shields, walls, and the inside flaps of psalters. Bernard of Clairvaux, abbot of Clairvaux from 1115 to 1153, preached on perseverance for forty years and on trust for nearly as long. Thomas Aquinas, writing the Secunda Secundae of the Summa Theologiae between 1271 and 1272, argued that temperance was the virtue that kept the others from collapsing into their own excess. Without it, fortitude becomes recklessness, justice becomes cruelty, and prudence becomes mere cunning. More than a century later, Christine de Pizan put the same argument more plainly in her court treatises: temperance is the bridle on every other good. The metaphor would last another four hundred years.

Each of the three words carries its own heraldic emblem, and each emblem has its own deep history. The talbot hound at the top of the shield is the symbol of fiducia, drawn from Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae of about 625, which described the dog as the most faithful creature alive — knowing its master after long absence, dying on its master's grave, refusing to be bought by any meat. The Aberdeen Bestiary repeated the claim around 1200, and by the reign of Edward III between 1327 and 1377, knights' funeral effigies often placed a hound at the feet as a heraldic statement of fidelity kept. John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, the English commander called "the English Achilles," bore the hound so prominently that it appears beside him in the presentation miniature of the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, given to Margaret of Anjou in 1445.

Why the Three Together

  • Hound passant at the head — fiducia, the faithful watcher, drawn from Isidore and the bestiaries.
  • Bridle and bit at the fess point — temperantia, the governing hand, codified by Ripa in 1593.
  • Triquetra at the base — perseverantia, the unbroken loop, descended from Insular and Norse craft.
  • The motto banners — read bottom-left to bottom-right to top, the order of moral development.
  • The cape and the rearing horse — context, the unbridled power that the shield's emblem governs.

Live Your Best Knight series crest logo featuring medieval heraldic shield with hound, bridle, and triquetra — Latin virtues motto Temperantia Fiducia Perseverantia