Order of the Annunziata
Order of the Annunziata
A Piedmontese secular military order which in its later form dates from Charles III, Duke of Savoy, in 1518 . It was first dedicated to the Blessed Virgin at the time of Felix V , antipope , 1434 . The order considered itself the successor of the Order of the Collar, as it celebrated the feast of the Annunciation in the Charterhouse of Pierre-Chatel in Bugey, where the former held its chapters . On the cession of Bugey to France the Order of the Annunziata transferred its chapters to the Camaldolese monastery near Turin (1627 ).