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unusual facts about Grand Cross


Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza

In 1907 he won the Exposición Internacional de Barcelona (international exposition of Barcelona), as well as medals in Munich, Buenos Aires and Liège, and was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Orden de Alfonso X el Sabio, The great Cross of Isabel La Catolica, Great Cross Of Alfonso XII and with the Italian Court medal.


Carl Johan Michelet

Michelet was awarded a number of honours, including the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav in 1901.


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1815 in the United Kingdom

The Prince Regent divides the Order of the Bath into three classes: the Knights Grand Cross, Knights Commander and Companions.

Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe

He received the grand cross of the Legion of Honour and the title of count, was a member of Napoleon's privy council, but was never in high favour at court.

Battle of Kandahar

For his services, General Roberts received the thanks of Parliament, and was appointed both Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) and Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1880, becoming a baronet the following year.

Carl Dahlhaus

Dahlhaus was honored with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Grand Cross with Star), a Blue Max, and accepted into the German Academy.

Carlos Lopes

Portuguese prime minister, Mário Soares, decorated Lopes with the Grand-Cross of the Order of the Infant (Grã-Cruz da Ordem do Infante).

Charles de Bernard de Marigny

Charles-René-Louis, vicomte de Bernard de Marigny (1 February 1740, Sées - 25 July 1816, Brest) was a French vice admiral, grand-cross of the ordre de Saint-Louis and commander of the Brest fleet.

Festus Mogae

Mogae was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur by French President Nicolas Sarkozy on 20 March 2008 for his "exemplary leadership" in making Botswana a "model" of democracy and good governance.

Folke Hauger Johannessen

Hauger Johannessen was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav in 1972.

Hilario Davide, Jr.

In 2011 Davide was awarded one the highest honours of the Holy See - the Knight Grand Cross of the Pontifical Order of St. Sylvester by decree of Pope Benedict XVI.

Hugh Saunders

Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog (Denmark) - 20 November 1956, "in recognition of valuable services rendered by him as adviser to the Danish Government on the reorganisation of the Royal Danish Air Force".

Jonathan Wathen-Waller

The new king soon afterward in 1832 made Jonathan a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order (G.C.H.).

José Ángel Sánchez Asiaín

He holds, among other awards, the Grand Cross of the Spanish Order of Alphonso X the Wise, and the Grand Cross of the Portuguese Order of Prince Henry (GCIH).

José Antonio Griñán

Griñán is a recipient of the Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III, which gives him the honorific of Excelentísimo Señor.

Julius Anton Glaser

Among other decorations, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold and made a Knight of the Order of the Iron Crown.

Lucia Apicella

Mamma Lucia received in August 1951 from Theodor Heuss, President of the Western Germany, the "Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany – Grand Cross".

Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI

Nawab Bahadur Sirajud Dawlah, Lieutenant-General His Highness Rustam-i-Dauran, Arustu-i-Zaman, Wal Mamaluk, Asaf Jah VI, Muzaffar ul-Mamaluk, Nizam ul-Mulk, Nizam ud-Daula, Nawab Mir Sir Mahbub 'Ali Khan Bahadur, Sipah Salar, Fath Jang, Nizam of Hyderabad, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, Honourable Lieutenant-General in the Army.

Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo

He was appointed Chaplain Grand Cross of Merit of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George in 2006 by Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria and Vice-Grand Prior of the Order in 2008.

Michael Ogio

On 26 April 2011, Queen Elizabeth II conferred the honour of Knighthood and invested him as Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George on his appointment as Governor-General of Papua New Guinea at Windsor Castle.

Murder of UCA scholars

On the 20th anniversary of the massacre, president Mauricio Funes awarded the Order of José Matías Delgado, Grand Cross with Gold Star, to the six murdered scholars/priests.

Nezir Škaljić

Škaljić was recipient of a first class 'Grand Cross' Imperial Austrian Order of Franz Joseph.

Otto Vincent Lange

Otto Vincent Lange was proclaimed Knight of the Order of St. Olav 1847, promoted to Commander in 1857, and in 1863 was awarded the Grand Cross in 1863.

Paul Michaux

Michaux was awarded the Cross of Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Pius X, and in 1911 he received the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sylvester.

Ryszard Kaczorowski

On 9 November 2004, Kaczorowski was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George as an Honorary Knight Grand Cross by Queen Elizabeth II for "his exceptional contribution to the community of Polish emigrees and their descendants living in the UK".

Scottish Knights Templar

The story told by Dom Calmet was that Viscount Dundee was supposed to have been an early Templar Grand Master and to have fallen at Killiecrankie wearing the Grand Cross of the Order.

Setsuko, Princess Chichibu

On 9 October 1978, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II) invested Princess Chichibu as an Honorary Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George.

Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet

King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden rewarded Admiral Hood with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword.

Stanisław Kulczyński

Kulczyński was awarded the Order of the Builders of People's Poland (1964), the Order of the Banner of Labour 1st class and the Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics

On 30 May 1922, he received the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sylvester, 1st Class (Holy See).