Order of Michael the Brave: Difference between revisions

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Romania's highest chivalric order, the Order of Michael the Brave was instituted by King Ferdinand the Unifier in the early stages of the Romanian War of Unification
and was named in honour of Michael the Brave, a late 16th century Prince of Wallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia,
the first Romanian to rule over the three Danubian Principalities.

Standards
Order of Michael the Brave
Head of the Order of Michael the Brave
also King of Romania

Heads of the Order
Ferdinand I the Unifier
King of Romania
Charles II
King of Romania
Michael I
King of Romania

Knights in the Romanian War of Unification
George V
King of Great Britain and Ireland
Nicholas
Prince of Romania
Emanuele Filiberto
Duke of Aosta
Armando Diaz
Duke of the Victory
David Beatty
1st Earl Beatty
Douglas Haig
1st Earl Haig
Józef Piłsudski
President of Poland
Ferdinand Foch
Marshal of France
Joseph Joffre
Marshal of France
Franchet d'Esperey
General in the Republican French Army
Georges Guynemer
Captain in the Republican French Army

Knights in the Romanian War of Reunification
Fedor von Bock
Marshal of Germany
Walther von Brauchitsch
Marshal of Germany
Hermann Göring
Marshal of Germany
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist
Marshal of Germany
Erich von Manstein
Marshal of Germany
Gerd von Rundstedt
Marshal of Germany
Helmuth von Pannwitz the Last Knight of Europe
General in the Nazi German Army
Victor Miclescu
Major in the Royal Romanian Army
Nicolae Miclescu
Captain in the Royal Romanian Army
Nicolae Polizu-Micșunești
Lieutenant in the Royal Romanian Army

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 Queen Victoria.svg|George V<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">King of Great Britain and Ireland</span>
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 Bock.svg|Fedor von Bock<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Marshal of Germany</span>
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