Knighthood
131Decorations and medals of the Netherlands — Throughout the ages hundreds of medals, decorations for merit or valour and orders of knighthood have been instituted by the successive governments of the Netherlands. The oldest of these were founded by the counts of Holland. Their successors of …
132Order of Saint Elizabeth — Not to be confused with Order of Saint Elisabeth. The Order of Saint Elizabeth was an all female chivalric and charitable order in the Kingdom of Bavaria. The following excerpt is from The Orders of Knighthood, British and Foreign (1884): The… …
