World Orders of Knighthood and Merit (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. World Orders of Knighthood and Merit (ISBN 0971196672) is a hard copy and digital reference book edited by Guy Stair Sainty and Rafal Heydel-Mankoo. It contains the study of the extant orders of knighthood and merit of every state, the result of the collaboration of many of the world's leading specialists. The first section commences with detailed histories of the surviving confraternal orders. The second section includes histories of all the great European single class Collar Orders, by date of foundation.