Order of Saint Joseph

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Order of Saint Joseph
Badge of the order
TypeDynastic order
Established9 March 1807
MottoUBIQUE SIMILIS
FounderFerdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Grand MasterArchduke Sigismund of Austria
GradesKnight Grand Cross
Commander
Knight

Ribbon of the order

Collar of the Order of Saint Joseph.

The Order of Saint Joseph was instituted on 9 March 1807 by Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany during his reign as Grand Duke of Würzburg.[1] It was transformed into a Tuscan Roman Catholic Dynastic Order in 1817.[1]

The constitution of the Order was promulgated in March 1817, with amendments in August 1817. The order was divided into civil and military categories but these are now defunct. It is given to reward services towards Tuscan culture and civilisation and to the Grand Ducal House as a whole. [citation needed] The Order is divided into three levels:

  • Knights Grand Cross, numbering thirty
  • Commander, numbering sixty
  • Knights, numbering one hundred and fifty

These numbers excluded Sovereigns, Heads of State, and Princes of the Grand Ducal House and other Royal Houses, Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church and Tuscan Metropolitan Archbishops. All had to be Catholics. The number of women members cannot exceed fifty, excluding Princesses of the Grand Ducal and other Royal Houses, wives of Heads of State and Dames of the Order of Saint Stephen. It is permitted for non-nobles to be admitted into the Order of the level of Grand Cross in cases of exceptional merit. Dames wear the same Cross as Knights but from a bow on the left breast. Dame Grand Crosses wear the Cross hanging from a Riband like the Knights but without the Star.

Knight
Commander
Knight Grand Cross

Recipients

References

  1. ^ a b Burke, Bernard (1858). The Book of Orders of Knighthood and Decorations of Honour of All Nations: Comprising a Historical Account of Each Order, Military, Naval, and Civil, from the Earliest to the Present Time, with Lists of the Knights and Companions of Each British Order ... Hurst and Blackett. pp. 352–353.

Bibliography

  • Gregor Gatscher-Riedl, Mario Strigl, Die roten Ritter. Zwischen Medici, Habsburgern und Osmanen. Die Orden und Auszeichnungen des Großherzogtums Toskana. Vienna, Neue Welt Verlag, 2014. ISBN 978-3-9503061-5-6.

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