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Spain: Orders, Honours, and Decorations

Name Tenure
Family
Order of Alcantara
Previously the Order of St Julian of Pereyro; founded 1176 by King Ferdinand II of León and Galicia.[P55]
Knight
†1672
Tomasi di Lampedusa (504)
Royal Military Order of Calatrava
Founded 1157 by don Raimond, Abbott of Fitero.[K12]
Grand Master
Rodrigo Garcia de Aca[K12]
1200s[K12]
••••
Knight Commander
1200s
Cervantes (3376)
Order of Castille and Leon
Grand Prior
1610; †1624
Savoy (254)
Order of Charles III (Order of the Immaculate Conception)
Founded 1771 by King Charles III of Spain.[M19]
Knight/Dame Grand Cross
Umberto I, K of Italy 1871; †1900

Savoy (254)

1876; †1910
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (724.6)
1876; †1942
Windsor (724.6)
Tommaso of Savoy, 2nd D di Genova 1887; †1931
Savoy (254)
Umberto II, K of Italy †1983
Savoy (254)
1986; *1921

Schleswig-H-S-G-Greece (218.2)

Knight/Dame Commander
           
Knight/Dame
Order of the Golden Fleece
►Formed 1713 from the Burgundian order
Sovereigns
       
†1890    
Savoy (254)
Knight
†1720
Gramont (1980)
†1725
Gramont (1980)
1712; †1729
Savoy (254)
Edward VII, K of Great Britain 1852; †1910
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (724.6)
1878
†1947
Savoy (254)
1888
†1931  
Savoy (254)
1890
†1890    
Savoy (254)
1899
†1931    
Savoy (254)
1923
†1983
Savoy (254)
Rival branch: Josephine
Rival branch: Carlist
Knights of San Fernando
Knight
1200s
Cervantes (3376)
Order of Santiago (The Military Order of Saint James of Compostela)
Founded 1 August 1170 by King Ferdinand II of León.[P40]
Commander
1400s
Cervantes (3376)
†1550
Cervantes (3376)
Knight
†1564
Cervantes (3376)
1500s
Simonetta (5499)
†1594
Simonetta (5499)
†1669    
Tomasi di Lampedusa (504)
Order of the Spanish Republic in Exile (Orden de la Liberación de España)
1958; †1964
Fabela (5451.1)

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