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The Royal Military and Hospitaller Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem united (French: Ordre royal de Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel et de Saint-Lazare de Jérusalem) was a chivalric order instituted in 1608 by personal union of the medieval Order of Saint Lazarus in France and the new Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel of King Henry IV of France. The union of the two orders was recognised by a bull of Cardinal Louis, papal legate in France, dated 5.
After the turmoil of the French revolution, the order ceased to enjoy royal protection in 1830.
Legacy
Notwithstanding, the modern ecumenical schisms of Order of Saint Lazarus (statuted 1910) claim legacy from the suppressed French branch with one group under spiritual protection of the Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and another one under the protection of the Henri d'Orléans the Orleanist claimant to the past crown of France with spiritual protection under a Roman Catholic Cardinal. The Catholic Church does not formally recognize these contemporary factions nor any other non-Vatican sanctioned order regardless of dynastic claim, pedigree, or foundational anitquity (e.g. Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus or the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George).
The different current Military and Hospitaller Orders of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem maintain that after 1830 the French foundation of the Order of Saint Lazarus continued under the governance of a council of officers under the protection of the Melkite Patriarchy. Documentation to the subsequent decades of the 19th-century is scant and equivocal, but the order is documented to have been definitely active philanthropically in Haifa in the mid-19th century, while contemporary biographies do mention late 19th-century individuals as having been members of the Hospitaller Nobles of St. Lazarus. Definite documentation relating the Order of Saint Lazarus appears again in 1910 with the publication of its revised statutes.