List of orders of knights

This list is a compilation of orders of knights . The term "order" is also used in literature as "knight order"; because the bearers of the monastic insignia form the religious community.

A.

Order of the Black Eagle (Prussia)
Order of the Red Eagle (Prussia)
Order of the White Eagle (Serbia)
Order of the White Eagle (Poland)
Order of the Eagle or the Eagle Society
Order of the Golden Eagle (Württemberg)
Order of Alcántara
Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (Russia)
Amaranten Order (Sweden, 1653, donor Queen Christina of Sweden )
Order of St. Andrew (Russia)
Order of St. Andrew (United Kingdom) (Scottish Order)
Order of St. Anna (Russia)
Announcement Order (Italy)
Order of St. Anton (Germany)
Order of Argata (Order of the Haspel, Naples 1376 by Ludwig von Anjou )
Order of the Argonauts (Naples 1382)
Order of Knights of Avis (Portugal)
Order of the Ax or the Hatchet in Tortosa (Order of the Ladies 1149/1150)
Order of Aubrac (1120 Flanders)

B.

Order of the Bath (United Kingdom)
Order of the Bear , Order of the Bear, Order of the Bear or St. Gallus Order (Switzerland, founded in 1213)
L'ordre de la Banda or Order of the Bandage, Order of the Red Bandage (Spain / Castile / Leon 1330/1332 Alfonso XI donated / Philip V renewed)
Order of the Bethlehemites
Order of the Bee (France / Bourbon, donated in 1703 by Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine , on a medallion a bee surrounded by the motto "jesuis petite: mais mes piqueurs sont profondes")
Order of Knights of the Most Holy Redeemer and Saint Brigitta of Sweden (1366)
Order of the Burgundian Cross (donated by Charles V (HRR) (1535 or 1555) with the motto "Barbaria" after the liberation of Tunis in 1535 from Turkish rule)
Order of the Blue Bandage (oldest Baden order, donated by Margrave Ernst Friedrich, 1584)
Order of the Alliance (Sweden 1527)
Order of Knights of St. Blaise , around 1118, Armenia

C.

Orden del Calza or Order of the Boot (Venice 1400)
Order of St. Carl
Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (France 1607)
Order of Christ ( Holy See )
Order of Christ (Portugal 1317)
Order of Christ, Order of the Brothers of the Sword (Livonia)
Order of St. Christopher (Austria 1517)
Order of Cincinnatus
Order of the Concord (Frankfurt)
Constantist Order
Constantia Order (Sicily 1734 with 3 classes)

D.

Dannebrog Order (Denmark)
German Order (Vatican)
Scottish Order of the Thistle (Scotland)
Order of the Thistle (France)
Order of Discipline and the White Eagle (Austria Order without evidence in literature)
Order of the Doge (Venice)
Dragon Order (Hungary)
Dragon Order (China)
Order of the Trinity (1198 Spain)
Order of Gratitude (Courland) (1710 Duchy of Courland)

E.

Order of the Legion of Honor (France)
Order of the Oak (Navarre)
Order of Fraternal Unity (Duke Friedrich Wilhelm, Saxony, 1591)
Order of Concord (Bayreuth) (Principality of Bayreuth, 1660)
Order of Concord (Schwarzburg) (Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, 1718)
Order of Concord (Spain) (King Ferdinand of Castile and Leon, 1261)
Elephant Order (Denmark)
Order of Elisabeth Theresia (Austria)
Order of the Immaculate Conception (Poland)
Order of the Knights of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Italy / Austria 1618)
Order of the Redeemer in Mantua (Italy, donor Duke Vincenzo I Gonzaga 1608)

F.

Order of Saint Ferdinand and Merit (Sicily)
Order of the Golden Fetter (France 1415)
Order against cursing (Duke Wilhelm Friedrich Sachsen-Weimar, 1590)
Order of the Wing of St. Michael (1172, King Alfonso I , Portugal)
Order of the Fan or Order of Luise Ulrike (Founder Luise Ulrike von Prussia , 1744)
Order of Fontevraux (founder Robert von Arbrissel 1096 France)

G

Order of the Daisies (donated in 1378 by Philip the Bold with the motto "il me tarde")
Order of the Yellow Ribbon (France, 1600, donor Duke of Nevers)
Order of the Armored Arm , Denmark, Christian IV.
Order de la Générosité (Prussia)
Order of the Gorse Flower (France)
Russian Order of Saint George (Russia)
Order of St. George (Bavaria)
Order of St. George (Genoa)
St. Georgs-Orden (Austria) (Austria)
Order of St. George - A European order of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen
Order of St. George (Netherlands)
Order of St. George (Rome)
Order of St. George (Ravenna)
Order of the Lamb of God
Order of the Belt of Hope (France 1389)
Order of the Glorious Saint Mary (Italy 1233)
Order of the Golden Society (founder Christian I of Saxony 1590)
Order of the Golden Fly (Egypt)
Order of the Green Shield (France)
Order of the Golden Shield (France)
Order of the Golden Spur (Holy See)
Order of the Golden Spur (Naples)
Order of the Golden Ring (Pfalz 1524)
Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher (Holy See)
Order of Grammont (founder Stephan of Tigerno 1073 France)

H

Order of the old hoe (Liegnitz 1290)
Order of the Rooster and the Dog (France), there are doubts about its existence
Order of the Necklace or Order of the Annunciation (del collare)
Order of Henry the Lion (Brunswick Order of Knights)
Military st. Order of Henry (Saxony 1736)
Order of St. Heinrich (Saxony 1768, founder August III (Poland) )
Order of Ermine (Naples)
Order of Ermine (France)
Order of the Golden Deer (Silesia, 1672)
Order of Hops , (1411 John , Duke of Burgundy)
Order of the Garter (United Kingdom)
Order of the Hospitallers
Order of Hubertus (Bavaria)
Order of Saint Hubert also Order of Loyalty , (France, 1416)
Order of the Hospitallers or Hospitable Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (1118)
Knightly Order of Saint Mary of Grace (Catalonia 1192)
Order of St. Mary of the Lily (1048)
Order of Knights of St. George (1492/1452)
Order of St. Gilbert of Sempringham founded in 1135
Order of St. Jerome (Electorate of Saxony 1450)
Order of St. Jacob (Holland 1290)
Order of the Knights of St. George (1492)
Order of the Knights of St. George (Austria 1494)
Order of the Blessed Virgin of Villa Vilosa (Brazil / Portugal February 6, 1818)
Order of the Half Moon (Turkey 1453/1799)
Herzoglich Württemberg-Oelssischer Ritterorden vom Todtenkopf (1652, Württemberg)
Order of the Hare Knights (English secular order of knights, 1338, King Edward III.)

J

Order of St. Jacob of the Sword

Order of St. Jacob (Netherlands)

Order of Hunting or Diana (Naples)

Januarius Order (Sicily)

Order of St. Joachim (1755 Christian Franz von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld )

Order of Jesus Christ and His Passion (Germany) 1617

Order of Jesus Maria (Rome)

Order of St. John

Royal Prussian Order of St. John

Order of St. Joseph ( Joseph II 1768, Austria)

Order of the Knights of the Blessed Virgin of Loretta (1586)

Order of knights of Jesus and Mary (1613)

Order of St. Joseph (Tuscany) ( Ferdinand III. , 1807)

K

Order of the four emperors / Order of the four Roman emperors

Order of Charles III. (Spain)

Order of Charles XIII (Sweden May 27, 1811)

Order of St. Catherine (Russia)

Knot Order , France

Order of the Knot , Naples

Order of Constantine (Sicily 1190)

Order of knights of the ears of corn (France 1450)

Order of the Lords of the Cross with the double red cross

Order of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star

Order of the Bavarian Crown (Bavaria)

Order of the Westphalian Crown ( Westphalen )

Order of the Iron Crown (Italy)

Order of the royal. Krone (Friesland)

Order of the Iron Crown (Austria)

Constantinian Order of St. George (Parma 1816)

L.

Order of Lazarus
Order of the Passion of Christ
Leopold Order (Austria)
Order of love of neighbor (Austria)
Order of Christian Love (France)
Order of the Lilies (France)
Order of the Lily (Navarre, Garcia IV , 1048)
Order of the Lily (Italy, Pope Pius V , 1546)
Order of the Lily or Flower Pots (Spain, 1412)
Livonian Order
Order of Loretto UL F or the Lorettan Participants
Order of Luisen (Prussia 1814)
Order of St. Louis (France)
Order of the Lion (France 1080)
L'ordre du Pavillon (France, Louis XV, 1717)

M.

Order of St. Magdalene (France)
Order of Malta
St. Mark's Order (Venice)
Marian Order
Order of the Virgin Mary
Maria Theresa Order (Austria)
Mauritius and Order of Lazarus (Sardinia)
Order of Max-Joseph (Bavaria)
Order of the Guinea Pig (since 1450)
Order Pour le Mérite (Prussia)
Order du merite militaire
Order of Saint Michael (Bavaria)
Ordre de Saint-Michel (France)
Order of St. Michael (Naples)
Real Ordem de Sao Miguel de Ala - Royal Order of the Wing of Saint Michael (Portugal)
Military Order (Spain)
Military Order (Poland)
Order of knights of the Christian militia (Austria)
Order of the Half Moon (Turkey)
Order of the Half Moon (donated by King Charles III of Naples 1382)
Knightly Order of Mary of Bethlehem (1459)
Order of Montjoie (Spain 1172)
Order of Temperance (Hesse 1600)
Orden de la Merci (1230 Spain)

N

North Star Order (Sweden)
Order of St. Nikolai (donated in 1382 by King Charles III of Naples )
Order of Fools (Kleve, 1381)

O

Order of the White Lady in the Green Shield (France 1399)
Ordo Equestris Vini Europae (Austria 1333/1468)

P

Order of Saint Peter (Vatican, 1510, Leo X.)
Order de la noble Passion (Sachsen-Weißenfels 1704)
Order of St. Patricius (United Kingdom)
St. Peter and Paul Order
Order of Pius (Holy See)
Psychic and starry

R.

House Order of the Rautenkrone (Saxony)
Order of German Righteousness (1630, renewed in 1833 as the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order )
Order of the Immediate Imperial Knighthood (Austria)
Knightly Order of the Rosary of St. Mary (1209)
Order of the Knights of San Marco
Order of Knights of Saint Sebastian in Europe
Order of Knights of the Passion of Christ (France 1400 and England 1380)
Knightly order of St. John from the hospital in Jerusalem
Knightly Order of the Ladies of the Sash (Castile 1388 Juan I)
Order of Rhodes in the course of the order 1. Name of the Hospitaller Order, 2. Name of the Rhodes Order and 3. Name of the Order of Malta
Order of St. Ruperti (1701, Salzburg, Johann Ernst Graf von Thun and Hohenstein )
Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem (1099; reconstitution by the Papal Breve cum multa sapienter of January 24, 1868)

S.

Order of St. Salvator
Order of the Sash (Spain)
Ship orders and orders from the ship (in 1382 founder King Charles III. Of Naples ) or Order of the ship and increasing double Moon (France)
Shed Orden (del Scama) (Spain 1427)
Order of the Swan (Cleve)
Order of the Sword (Sweden)
Order of the Sword (Cyprus)
Order of the mustard seed ( Nikolaus von Zinzendorf ; 1710)
Royal Order of Seraphines (Sweden 1748)
Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh (Russia)
Order of the New Year's Eve (1231 Spain)
Order of St. Simplicius (Fulda, 1492)
Order of the Two Sicilies (Sicily 1808)
Order of the Slaves of Virtue (Austria 1662)
Order of the Mirror (donor Ferdinand , Infant of Castile, 1410)
Order of the Mirror or Order of the Happy Hallowed Treasure (founder Kaiser Muts-Hito, January 3, 1888, 8 classes)
Order of the Porcupine (France 1394)
Order of salvation. Stanislaus (Poland)
Order of St. Stephen (Austria)
Order of St. George - A European order of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen
St. Stephen's Order (Tuscany 1561)
Order of St. Heinrich (Hubertusburg / Saxony 1736)
Order of the Star or Star Society
Order of the Star UL F
Order of the Star (1258 Switzerland)
Order of the Star (France)
Star Order (Sicily 1595)
Order of the Star Cross (Austria 1668)
Knightly Order of Silence (Cyprus 1195)
Order of the Stole (Spain)
Order of the Golden Stole (Venice)
Order of the Ladies of the Rope or Belted Ladies (France 1489)

T

Order of the round table
Order of the Skulls (Silesia) (donor Duke of Württemberg, 1652, white ribbon with silver skull, motto: Memento mori)
House Order of Loyalty (Baden 1715)
Order of Loyalty (Portugal / Brazil 1808)
Order of Tusin (Austria / Bohemia 1562)
Order of the Dove (Castile) (Founder John I 1379 or 1390)
Order of the Dove (Founder Henry of England 1399)
Order of the Templars (1118)

U

Ordre de l'union parfaite (Denmark)
Order of the Inverted Dragon (Founder Sigismund (HRR) , 1418)

V

Vitézi Rend "Order of the State of the Brave" / "Order of Heroes" (Hungary 1920)
Order of the United Hearts (1696 Nassau )
Order of Reason (Castile, Juan I, 1379)

W.

Order of the White Cross (Tuscany 1814)
Order of Reunification (France, Napoleon Bonaparte, 1811)
Order of the Greyhound (France, 1416)
Order of St. Wenceslas (Bohemia)

Order of knights without sufficient documentation

In the case of the following, essential information such as the date of foundation, benefactor and purpose are insufficiently proven in the literature or are doubted, so that the existence is in question or was only transmitted as a legend. Information about the statutes, decorations and costumes are also missing.

Order of the Wreath of Love donated in Scotland 1479

Order of the Lords of the Banner donated in 1609 or 1610

Order of the Rooster or the Dog donated around 500

Order of the Holy Ampulla donated in 481 by Clodewig I. France

Order of the Torch , Spanish Order

Order of the Round Table , England around 450

Order of the Machine , also called Harfleur, donated in 997 by Wilhelm the Conqueror

Order of the Crown , donated by Charlemagne Conqueror in 800

Order of gratitude (1696 Thuringia) only in planning

Individual evidence

↑ Ludwig Kuhn: Handbook of the history and constitution of all flourishing knight orders in Europe . Camesinaschen bookstore, Vienna 1811, p. 140.
^ ^A ^b Johann Heinrich Kurtz: Textbook of Church History for Students . August Neumann's Verlag, Mitau 1857, p. 305.
↑ JG Helmcke, D. Starck, H. Wermuth: Handbuch der Zoologie . Bd. 4/2/1 to 9/10 Lfg 2 2a. de Gruyter, Berlin 1968, ISBN 3-11-000654-5 , p. 38.
^ Johann Samuelersch et al. (Ed.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1834.
↑ Friedrich von Raumer: History of the Hohenstaufen and their time. Volume 6, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1842, p. 452.
^ ^A ^b ^c Karl Julius Weber: The knighthood and the Templars, Johanniter and Marians; or Teutonic Knights . Hallberger'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 1835/1849.
^ Gustav Adolph Ackermann: Order book of all in Europe flourishing and extinct orders and decorations . Rudolph and Dieterici, Annaberg 1855, p. 214.
↑ ^a ^b Gustav Adolph Ackermann: Order book of all orders and decorations that have flourished and expired in Europe . Rudolph and Dieterici, Annaberg 1855, p. 244.
^ Gustav Adolph Ackermann: Order book of all in Europe flourishing and extinct orders and decorations . Rudolph and Dieterici, Annaberg 1855, p. 209.
↑ Johann Georg Krünitz: Economic (economic-technological) encyclopedia, or general system of the land, house and state economy . Buchhandlung Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1817, p. 555.
↑ Collection of the best and latest travelogues . Verlag August Mylius, Berlin 1784, Volume 24, p. 150.
^ ^A ^b Karl Julius Weber: Carl Julius Weber's complete works . Volume 14. Hallberger'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1837, p. 465.

literature

Kurt von der Aue: The knighthood and the knight orders: or historical-critical representation of the origin of the knighthood, and complete description of all existing knight orders for friends of the history of old and modern times . Merseburg Verlag Sonntag, 1825, from p. 49 ff.

Web links

List of known knight orders
Article about medals on the website of the German Historical Museum

[1] Ludwig Kuhn: Handbook of the history and constitution of all flourishing knight orders in Europe . Camesinaschen bookstore, Vienna 1811, p. 140.

[Kurtz-2] A ^b Johann Heinrich Kurtz: Textbook of Church History for Students . August Neumann's Verlag, Mitau 1857, p. 305.

[3] JG Helmcke, D. Starck, H. Wermuth: Handbuch der Zoologie . Bd. 4/2/1 to 9/10 Lfg 2 2a. de Gruyter, Berlin 1968, ISBN 3-11-000654-5 , p. 38.

[4] Johann Samuelersch et al. (Ed.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1834.

[5] Friedrich von Raumer: History of the Hohenstaufen and their time. Volume 6, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1842, p. 452.

[Ritter-6] A ^b ^c Karl Julius Weber: The knighthood and the Templars, Johanniter and Marians; or Teutonic Knights . Hallberger'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 1835/1849.

[7] Gustav Adolph Ackermann: Order book of all in Europe flourishing and extinct orders and decorations . Rudolph and Dieterici, Annaberg 1855, p. 214.

[Ackermann-244-8] Gustav Adolph Ackermann: Order book of all orders and decorations that have flourished and expired in Europe . Rudolph and Dieterici, Annaberg 1855, p. 244.

[9] Gustav Adolph Ackermann: Order book of all in Europe flourishing and extinct orders and decorations . Rudolph and Dieterici, Annaberg 1855, p. 209.

[10] Johann Georg Krünitz: Economic (economic-technological) encyclopedia, or general system of the land, house and state economy . Buchhandlung Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1817, p. 555.

[11] Collection of the best and latest travelogues . Verlag August Mylius, Berlin 1784, Volume 24, p. 150.

[Weber-12] A ^b Karl Julius Weber: Carl Julius Weber's complete works . Volume 14. Hallberger'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1837, p. 465.