Grand Cross is the highest grade in many orders of knighthood. Sometimes the holders of the highest grade are referred to "commanders grand cross", "knights grand cross" or just "grand crosses"; in other cases the actual insignia itself is called "the grand cross".
Alternatively, in some other orders, the highest grade may be called the "grand cordon", "grand collar" etc. In those cases the rank of grand cross may come after another rank (e.g. the Portuguese Order of Saint James of the Sword).
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1850-1851 Received Knights Cross of the Albert Order (King of Saxony) and the Order of the Royal Württemberg Crown. 1863 Knight’s Cross of the Order of Leopold. 1867 Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold (Privy Councillor) ...
... The orders in which the highest rank (or second after "Collar") is named "Grand Cordons" include the following orders Belgium Grand Cordons of the Order of Leopold (highest ...
... the Turkish Order of Medjidie (3rd class) the Danish Order of Dannebrog (Grand Cross) the Japanese Grand Cross Sacred Treasure and Grand Cross Rising Sun the Grand Cross of the Crown ... Oakley in 1903, who was named Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1918 ...
... Other distinctions held Grand Cross of the Royal Military Order of Avis (Portugal) Grand Cross of the Order of Naval Merit (Portugal) Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Spain Knight ...
... Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (Commander's Cross with Star) Leonid Brezhnev — Marshal of the Soviet Union and Soviet politician (Grand Cross) Adam Bromke ... Polish politician, head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau (Commander's Cross) Jan Kułakowski — Polish politician, member of the European ... Léon Noël (1888-1987), French ambassador and politician (Grand Cross) ...
Famous quotes containing the words cross and/or grand:
“As I was going by Charing Cross,
I saw a black man upon a black horse;
They told me it was King Charles the First—”
—Unknown. As I was going by Charing Cross (l. 1–3)
“A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)