This is a list of knights Grand Cross of the Military Order of William. Established in 1815 by Willem I, it is the oldest and highest honour of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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The order is only awarded for acts of extreme bravery. Yet in the 19th century, the rank of knight grand cross was commonly awarded to foreign monarchs as a mark of respect and diplomacy. It has not been awarded since 1954, yet the Dutch monarch, as sovereign of the order, wears the insignia of knight grand cross.
Willem I
editImage | Name | Life | Date | Country | Notes |
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Willem, Prince of Orange[1] | 1792–1849 | 8 July 1815 | Netherlands | Later Willem II, King of the Netherlands | |
Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen, Count of Doggerbank | 1735–1819 | 8 July 1815 | Netherlands | ||
Jonkheer Jan Willem Janssens | 1762–1838 | 8 July 1815 | Netherlands | ||
Leopold, Count of Limburg Stirum | 1758–1840 | 8 July 1815 | Netherlands | ||
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington[2] | 1769–1852 | 8 July 1815 | United Kingdom | Also Prince of Waterloo in the Dutch nobility | |
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia[1] | 1783–1851 | 8 July 1815 | Prussia | ||
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt[1] | 1742–1819 | 8 July 1815 | Prussia | ||
Baron Friedrich Wilhelm of Bülow, Count of Dennewitz | 1755–1816 | 8 July 1815 | Prussia | ||
Count August Neidhardt of Gneisenau | 1760–1831 | 8 July 1815 | Prussia | ||
Prince Christian of Hesse-Darmstadt | 1763–1830 | 3 August 1815 | Hesse | ||
Baron Karl von Vincent | 1757–1834 | 3 August 1815 | Austrian Empire | ||
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg[3] | 1771–1820 | 27 August 1815 | Austrian Empire | ||
Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly | 1761–1818 | 27 August 1815 | Russian Empire | ||
Karl Philipp, Prince of Wrede[4] | 1767–1838 | 27 August 1815 | Bavaria | ||
Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Württemberg[5] | 1781–1864 | 27 August 1815 | Württemberg | Later Wilhelm I, King of Württemberg | |
Jonkheer Theodorus Frederik van Capellen | 1762–1824 | 20 September 1816 | Netherlands | ||
Edward Pellew, 1st Baron Exmouth | 1757–1833 | 20 September 1816 | United Kingdom | Later 1st Viscount Exmouth | |
Alexander I, Emperor of Russia[6] | 1777–1825 | 19 November 1818 | Russian Empire | ||
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia[7] | 1779–1831 | 19 November 1818 | Russian Empire | ||
George, Prince Regent of the United Kingdom[8] | 1762–1830 | 27 November 1818 | United Kingdom | Later George VI, King of the United Kingdom | |
Zeno Willem Anne Lodewijk van Tengnagell | 1783–1836 | 24 May 1821 | Netherlands | ||
Friedrich Wilhelm III, King of Prussia[9] | 1770–1840 | 9 July 1821 | Prussia | ||
Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus, Baron Krayenhoff | 1758–1840 | 12 May 1823 | Netherlands | ||
Louis Antoine, Dauphin of France | 1775–1844 | 13 May 1825 | France | ||
Charles X, King of France and Navarre | 1757–1836 | 13 May 1825 | France | ||
Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia[10] | 1796–1855 | 11 May 1826 | Russian Empire | ||
Hendrik Merkus, Baron de Kock[11] | 1779–1845 | 25 October 1830 | Netherlands | ||
Prince Frederik of the Netherlands[12] | 1797–1881 | 18 August 1831 | Netherlands | ||
David Hendrik, Baron Chassé | 1765–1849 | 25 December 1831 | Netherlands |
Willem II
editImage | Name | Life | Date | Country | Notes |
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Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia[13] | 1795–1861 | 9 February 1842 | Prussia | ||
Louis Philippe I, King of the French[14] | 1773–1850 | 22 March 1842 | France | ||
Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach[15] | 1792–1862 | 8 October 1842 | Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | Commander of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army | |
Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia | 1798–1849 | 4 November 1843 | Russian Empire |
Willem III
editImage | Name | Life | Date | Country | Notes |
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Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erevansky, Prince of Warsaw | 1782–1856 | 19 April 1849 | Russian Empire | ||
Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary[16] | 1830–1916 | 21 June 1849 | Austrian Empire | ||
Frederik VII, King of Denmark[17] | 1808–1863 | 21 June 1849 | Denmark | ||
Oscar I, King of Sweden and Norway[18] | 1799–1859 | 21 June 1849 | Sweden-Norway | ||
Ernst August, King of Hanover[19] | 1771–1851 | 3 July 1849 | Hanover | ||
Alexander II, Emperor of Russia[20] | 1818–1881 | 13 September 1855 | Russian Empire | ||
Napoléon III, Emperor of the French | 1808–1873 | 13 September 1855 | France | ||
Prince Aleksandr Ivanovich Baryatinsky | 1815–1879 | 19 February 1860 | Russian Empire | ||
Jan van Swieten | 1807–1888 | 12 May 1874 | Netherlands | ||
Albert, King of Saxony[21] | 1828–1902 | 9 July 1878 | Saxony | ||
Friedrich, German Crown Prince and Crown Prince of Prussia[22] | 1831–1888 | 23 August 1878 | German Empire | Later Friedrich III, German Emperor and King of Prussia | |
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia[23] | 1828–1885 | 23 August 1878 | Prussia | ||
Alexander III, Emperor of Russia[24] | 1845–1894 | 17 March 1881 | Russian Empire | ||
Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia[25] | 1859–1941 | 8 September 1889 | German Empire | Last awarded for diplomatic purposes |
Wilhelmina
editImage | Name | Life | Date | Country | Notes |
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Joannes Benedictus van Heutsz | 1851–1924 | 14 March 1903 | Netherlands | Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1904–1909) | |
George VI, King of the United Kingdom[26] | 1895–1952 | 1 July 1946 | United Kingdom | ||
Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1882–1945 | 15 April 1948 | United States | Posthumously awarded |
Juliana
editImage | Name | Life | Date | Country | Notes |
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Princess Wilhelmina of the Netherlands[27] | 1880–1962 | 4 September 1948 | Netherlands | Upon her abdication as Queen of the Netherlands | |
Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia[28] | 1892–1975 | 3 November 1954 | Ethiopian Empire |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Militaire Willems-Orde: Oranje-Nassau, Willem Frederik George Lodewijk, Prins van" [Military William Order: Orange-Nassau, William Frederick George Louis, Prince of]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 8 July 1815. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ "Militaire Willems-Orde: Wellesly 1st Duke of Wellington KG GCB, Arthur" [Military William Order: Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington KG GCB, Arthur]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 8 July 1815. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
- ^ (in Dutch) Military William Order: Schwarzenberg, Karl Phillip Fürst zu. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
- ^ (in Dutch) Military William Order: Wrede, Carl Philipp Joseph Fürst von. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ^ "Militaire Willems-Orde: Würtemberg, Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Prinz von" [Military William Order: Württemberg, Frederick William Charles, Prince of]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 27 August 1815. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- ^ "Militaire Willems-Orde: Romanov, Aleksandr I Pavlovitsj" [Military William Order: Romanov, Alexander I Pavlovich]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 19 November 1818. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
- ^ "Militaire Willems-Orde: Romanov, Konstantin Pavlovitsj" [Military William Order: Romanov, Konstantin Pavlovich]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 19 November 1818. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
- ^ "Militaire Willems-Orde: Wales, George Augustus Frederick, Prince of" [Military William Order: Wales, George Augustus Frederick, Prince of]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 27 November 1818. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
- ^ Militaire Willems-Orde: Preussen, Friederich Wilhelm III von, (in Dutch)
- ^ "Militaire Willems-Orde: Romanov, Nicolaas I Pavlovitsj" [Military William Order: Romanov, Nicholas I Pavlovich]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 11 May 1826. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ "H.M. baron de Kock" (in Dutch). Parlementair Documentatie Centrum. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ "Militaire Willems-Orde: Oranje-Nassau, Willem Frederik Karel, Prins van" [Military William Order: Orange-Nassau, William Frederick Charles, Prince of]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 18 August 1831. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Militaire Willems-Orde: Preussen, Friederich Wilhelm IV von, (in Dutch)
- ^ Militaire Willems-Orde: Bourbon, Louis Phillip prince de (in Dutch)
- ^ "Militaire Willems-Orde: Saxen-Weimar-Eisenach, Karl Bernhard Herzog von" [Military William Order: Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Charles Bernhard Duke of]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 8 October 1842. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ (in Dutch) Military William Order: Franz Joseph I. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ "Militaire Willems-Orde: Frederik VII" [Military William Order: Frederick VII]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 21 June 1849. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ "Militaire Willems-Orde: Wales, Oscar I." [Military William Order: Oscar I]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 21 June 1849. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Militaire Willems-Orde: Ernst August (in Dutch)
- ^ "Militaire Willems-Orde: Romanov, Aleksandr II Nikolajevitsj" [Military William Order: Romanov, Alexander II Nikolaevich]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 13 September 1855. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
- ^ Militaire Willems-Orde: Sachsen, Friedrich August Albert Anton Ferdinand Joseph Karl Maria Baptist Nepomuk Wilhelm Xaver Georg Fidelis van (in Dutch)
- ^ Militaire Willems-Orde: Preussen, Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl Prinz von (in Dutch)
- ^ "Militaire Willems-Orde: Preussen, Friedrich Karl Nicolaus Prinz von" [Military William Order: Prussia, Frederick Charles Nicholas Prince of]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 23 August 1878. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
- ^ "Militaire Willems-Orde: Romanov, Aleksandr III Nikolajevitsj" [Military William Order: Romanov, Alexander III Alexandrovich]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 17 March 1881. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
- ^ Militaire Willems-Orde: Preussen, Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht Prinz von (in Dutch)
- ^ "Militaire Willems-Orde: Winsor, Albert Frederick Arthur George of" [Military William Order: Windsor, Albert Frederick Arthur George of]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 1 July 1946.
- ^ "Militaire Willems-Orde: Oranje-Nassau, Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Prinses van" [Military William Order: Orange-Nassau, Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Princess of]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 4 September 1948. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ "Haile Selassie I", Military William Order (in Dutch), Defence, 3 November 1954, retrieved 9 March 2016.