Tarekat rekaan sendiri

Tarekat rekaan sendiri atau tarekat kesatria palsu adalah sebuah organisasi yang diklaim merupakan tarekat kesatria, namun tak diakui secara sah oleh negara-negara atau badan-badan internasional. Kebanyakan tarekat rekaan sendiri berkembang pada atau setelah pertengahan abad ke-18, dan beberapa diantaranya dibentuk pada saat ini. Kebanyakan berumur pendek dan berusia tak lebih dari beberapa dasawarsa.

Lambang Tarekat Bridget Swedia, sebuah tarekat rekaan sendiri

Bacaan tambahan

• Ordres et contre-ordres de chevalerie by Arnaud Chaffanjon, Mercure de France Paris 1982.
• Faux Chevaliers vrais gogos by Patrice Chairoff, Jean Cyrile Godefroy Paris 1985.
• The knightly twilight by Robert Gayre of Gayre, Lochore Enterprises Valletta 1973.
• Orders of knighthood, Awards and the Holy See by Peter Bander van Duren and Archbishop H.E. Cardinale (Apostolic Delegate in the United Kingdom), Buckinghamshire 1985.
• World Orders of Knighthood and Merit by Guy Stair Sainty(editor) and Rafal Heydel-Mankoo (deputy editor), Burke's Peerage 2006.
• Ephemeral Decorations, Gillingham, H. E. New York, 1935. American Numismatical Society: Numismatic Notes and Mongraphs 66.
• Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard, Knights of Fantasy: an overview, history, and critique of the self-styled 'Orders' called 'of Saint John' or 'of Malta', in Denmark and other Nordic countries, Turku 2002, ISBN 951-29-2265-7

Pranala luar

• History of Orders of Chivalry: A Survey
• International Commission for Orders of Chivalry
• Legitimacy and Orders of Knighthood, by François Velde
• The Self-Styled Orders, by Guy Stair Sainty
• Fake Titles
• Order of Malta Statement on Mimic Orders