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comparable with
hereditary knighthoods in
continental European orders of nobility, such as Ritter, than with
knighthoods under the
British orders of...
-
realms may
receive substantive knighthoods and have the
privilege of the
accompanying style. In general, only
knighthoods in
dynastic orders –
those orders...
-
knighthoods (the
Order of the Star of
India and the
Order of the
Indian Empire).
Those Indian rulers who
received other British orders of
knighthood were...
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titular honours—peerages, baronetcies, and
knighthoods—to Canadians.
Occasional conferments of
knighthoods (in 1934 and 1935) and
imperial honours, notably...
-
Degradation is the
formal term for
removal of a
knighthood or
other honour. The last
knight to be
publicly degraded was Sir
Francis Mitc**** in 1621. More...
- style. If the
knighthood is in an
order which has a
special class for
honorary knighthoods, a
change to a
regular class of
knighthoods is also required...
- 16th to
early 20th
century under Swedish and
Russian rule. The four
knighthoods are
united in the
Verband der
Baltischen Ritterschaften. e.V. ( ****ociation...
-
still actively conferred.
Papal orders of
knighthood or
Pontifical orders of
knighthood are
orders of
knighthood bestowed in the name of the Pope of the...
- 2000 the then new
Labour Prime Minister,
Helen Clark,
announced that
knighthoods and
damehoods had been
abolished and the order's
statutes amended. From...
- who have "renounced"
their knighthoods include:
Maharajkumar of Vizianagram,
cricketer (knighted in 1936;
renounced knighthood in 1947 upon India's independence)...
