Editing Order of Saint Lazarus (section)

===Continuations after 1572===
====Royal House of Savoy====
[[File:Emmanuel_Philibert_of_Savoy_(1580).jpg|thumb|[[Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy]] (1528–1580), founder and first [[Grand Master (order)|Grand Master]] of the amalgamated [[Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus]], recognised in 1572 by Pope [[Gregory XIII]].]]
{{Main|Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus}}

With the death of the papal favorite, Castiglione, in 1572, the grand magistry of the order was rendered vacant and [[Pope Gregory XIII]] united the Italian branch with the [[Order of Saint Maurice]] to set up the [[Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus]]. This order was then linked in perpetuity with the Crown of Savoy and thenceforth the title of its Grand Master was hereditary in that house. 
 
By the time of [[Pope Clement VIII]] the order had two houses, one at Turin, was to contribute to combats on land, while the other, at Nice, had to provide galleys to fight the Turks at sea. But when thus reduced to the states of the Duke of Savoy, the order merely vegetated until the French Revolution, which suppressed it. In 1816 the King of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel I, re-established the titles of Knight and Commander of Sts. Maurice and Lazarus, as simple decorations, accessible without conditions of birth to both civilians and military men.<ref name=Moeller/>

This became a national order of chivalry on the [[Italian unification|unification of Italy]] in 1861, but has been suppressed by law since the [[birth of the Italian Republic|foundation of the Republic]] in 1946. Since 1951 the order has not been recognized officially by the Italian state. However, the House of Savoy in exile continued to bestow the order. Today, it is granted to persons eminent in the public service, science, art, letters, trade, and charitable works.

====Royal House of France====
[[File:Le roi Louis XVIII dans son cabinet de travail des Tuileries (bgw17 0046).jpg|thumb|[[Louis XVIII]] (1755–1824) with the Order of Saint Lazarus grand cross]]
{{main|Royal Military and Hospitaller Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem united}}

In 1604, [[Henry IV of France]] re-declared the French branch of the order a protectorate of the French Crown. King Henry IV founded in 1608, with the approbation of [[Pope Paul V]], the Order of Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel. He then, in turn, united to this new order the possessions of St. Lazarus in France, and such is the origin of the title ''Ordres Royaux, Militaires & Hospitaliers de Saint Lazare de Jérusalem & de Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel réunis'' ("Royal, Military, and Hospitaller Orders of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Lazarus of Jerusalem united"). This amalgamation eventually received formal canonical acceptance on 5 June 1668 by a bull issued by Cardinal Legate de Vendôme under Papal authority of Clement IX.

Unlike the situation with the Savoyian Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus where a complete merger took place creating one order, the French branch was not completely merged with the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and the orders were managed as two separate entities, with individuals being admitted to one order but not necessarily to both.<ref>Grouvel, Robert. L'Ordre de Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel et l'École Royale Militaire (1779-1787). Carney de La Sabretache, 1967, p.352-356.</ref>

During the [[French Revolution]], a decree of 30 July 1791 suppressed all royal and knightly orders in France. Another decree the following year confiscated all the Order's properties. The Holy See, which had originally created the Order, on the other hand did not suppress the order;{{citation needed|date=June 2015}} while Louis, Count of Provence, then Grand Master of the order, who later became [[Louis XVIII]], continued to function in exile and continued admitting various dignitaries to the order.<ref>Sainty, Guy Stair, ed. (2006) ''World Orders of Knighthood and Merit'', p. 1862</ref>

Scholars differ in their views regarding the extent to which the Order remained active during and after the French Revolution. There is however no doubt of its continuing existence during this time. In different museums, there are preserved a number of paintings of Russian and Baltic nobles, admitted to the order after 1791. In this list are general John Lamb, [[Alexander Suvorov|Prince Suvorov]], [[Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen|count Pahlen]], count Sievers etc. Some of the new knights are listed in [[Royal Almanac|Almanach Royal]] from 1814 to 1830. King Louis XVIII, the order's protector, and the duc de Châtre, the order's lieutenant-general, both died in 1824. In 1830, a royal decree caused the order to lose its royal protection in France.