Order of Saint Januarius - The Order Today

The Order Today

King Carlo continued to make appointments to the order after leaving Naples, treating it as the second order of his new kingdom while still conferring it upon his former Italian subjects, until he passed the title of grand master to his son, Ferdinand IV and III of Naples and Sicily, on 9 December 1766.

Between the death of King Francis II on 27 December 1894 and the death of the Count of Caserta on May 26, 1934, only thirty-one appointments were made.

The order continues to be awarded today by the two claimaints for the headship of the royal House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Infante Don Carlos, Duke of Calabria and Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro.

Since 1960, the order has been awarded sparingly and total membership has not exceeded eighty, most of the knights being members of royal houses, senior officers of the Constantinian Order or Italian Grandees.

The Infante Don Carlos, Duke of Calabria, and his late father both followed the example of the nineteenth century sovereigns of the Two Sicilies in awarding the order not only to the heads of other royal houses (or reigning sovereigns), but also to their closest advisers, several of whom also hold high office in the Constantinian Order.