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unusual facts about Military order


Commandery

Commandry (feudalism) or Commandery, a current and historical administrative level of European Orders of Knights


Millstatt

The Habsburg emperor Frederick III, by this time also Carinthian duke and Vogt of Millstatt, had urged on this decision for the sake of his foundation of the knightly order of St. George to which he handed over the monastery and its estates on 14 May 1469.


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Benito Arias Montano

He became a clerical member of the Military Order of St. James, and accompanied the Bishop of Segovia to the Council of Trent (1562) where he won great distinction.

Blackheads

Brotherhood of Blackheads, a military order of unmarried merchants in historical Livonia

Ederle

Carlo Ederle (1892–1917), Italian engineer and army officer; recipient of the Military Order of Italy for action in World War I

Military Order of Savoy

This military order was to be granted to the soldiers who fought in the Italian army of Napoleon and became part of the Legion of Honor (or either obtained the honorary degree of Order of the Iron Crown) due to military merit.

Nicola Bellomo

At the outbreak of World War I, he held the rank of Artillery Captain and during that war he was awarded the Italian Military Order for gallantry in action.

OMAC

Order of Malta Ambulance Corps, an Irish first-aid organisation linked to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Order of Malta Ambulance Corps

The President of the Irish Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta Sir Adrian FitzGerald KM, 6th Baronet, 24th Knight of Kerry.

Order of Montesa

King James II persuaded Pope John XXII to permit him to regroup the Templar properties in Aragon and Valencia, and to create a new military order not essentially differing from that of the Templars, which should be charged with the defence of the frontier against the Moors and the pirates.

Order of Saint James

Order of Santiago, also known as the Military Order of Santiago, a catholic chivalric order and monarchical order founded in Castile

Order of Saint Januarius

HMEH Frà Matthew Festing, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta,

Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Carlos served in the Spanish Army in the Spanish–American War and received the Military Order of Maria Cristina.

Qazim Koculi

He disobeyed a military order in 1909 during a naval battle in Preveza by refusing to surrender to the Italian Navy.