List of knights grand cross of the Military Order of William
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This is a list of knights Grand Cross of the Military Order of William. Established in 1815 by Willem I, it is the oldest and highest honour of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The order is only awarded for acts of extreme bravery. Yet in the 19th century, the rank of knight grand cross was commonly awarded to foreign monarchs as a mark of respect and diplomacy. It has not been awarded since 1954, yet the Dutch monarch, as sovereign of the order, wears the insignia of knight grand cross.
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Willem, Prince of Orange[1] | 1792–1849 | 8 July 1815 |  Netherlands |
Later Willem II, King of the Netherlands |
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Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen, Count of Doggerbank | 1735–1819 | 8 July 1815 | ||
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Jonkheer Jan Willem Janssens | 1762–1838 | 8 July 1815 | ||
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Leopold, Count of Limburg Stirum | 1758–1840 | 8 July 1815 | ||
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington[2] | 1769–1852 | 8 July 1815 |  United Kingdom |
Also Prince of Waterloo in the Dutch nobility |
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Prince Wilhelm of Prussia[1] | 1783–1851 | 8 July 1815 |  Prussia |
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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt[1] | 1742–1819 | 8 July 1815 | ||
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Baron Friedrich Wilhelm of Bülow, Count of Dennewitz | 1755–1816 | 8 July 1815 | ||
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Count August Neidhardt of Gneisenau | 1760–1831 | 8 July 1815 | ||
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Prince Christian of Hesse-Darmstadt | 1763–1830 | 3 August 1815 |  Hesse |
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| Baron Karl von Vincent | 1757–1834 | 3 August 1815 |  Austrian Empire |
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Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg[3] | 1771–1820 | 27 August 1815 | ||
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Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly | 1761–1818 | 27 August 1815 |  Russian Empire |
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Karl Philipp, Prince of Wrede[4] | 1767–1838 | 27 August 1815 |  Bavaria |
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Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Württemberg[5] | 1781–1864 | 27 August 1815 |  Württemberg |
Later Wilhelm I, King of Württemberg |
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Jonkheer Theodorus Frederik van Capellen | 1762–1824 | 20 September 1816 | Netherlands |
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Edward Pellew, 1st Baron Exmouth | 1757–1833 | 20 September 1816 | United Kingdom |
Later 1st Viscount Exmouth |
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Alexander I, Emperor of Russia[6] | 1777–1825 | 19 November 1818 | Russian Empire |
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Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia[7] | 1779–1831 | 19 November 1818 | ||
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George, Prince Regent of the United Kingdom[8] | 1762–1830 | 27 November 1818 | United Kingdom |
Later George IV, King of the United Kingdom |
| Zeno Willem Anne Lodewijk van Tengnagell | 1783–1836 | 24 May 1821 | Netherlands |
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Friedrich Wilhelm III, King of Prussia[9] | 1770–1840 | 9 July 1821 | Prussia |
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Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus, Baron Krayenhoff | 1758–1840 | 12 May 1823 | Netherlands |
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Louis Antoine, Dauphin of France | 1775–1844 | 13 May 1825 |  France |
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Charles X, King of France and Navarre | 1757–1836 | 13 May 1825 | ||
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Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia[10] | 1796–1855 | 11 May 1826 | Russian Empire |
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Hendrik Merkus, Baron de Kock[11] | 1779–1845 | 25 October 1830 | Netherlands |
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Prince Frederik of the Netherlands[12] | 1797–1881 | 18 August 1831 | ||
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David Hendrik, Baron Chassé | 1765–1849 | 25 December 1831 |
Willem II
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Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia[13] | 1795–1861 | 9 February 1842 | Prussia |
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Louis Philippe I, King of the French[14] | 1773–1850 | 22 March 1842 |  France |
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Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach[15] | 1792–1862 | 8 October 1842 |  Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach |
Commander of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army |
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Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia | 1798–1849 | 4 November 1843 | Russian Empire |
Willem III
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Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erevansky, Prince of Warsaw | 1782–1856 | 19 April 1849 | Russian Empire |
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Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary[16] | 1830–1916 | 21 June 1849 | Austrian Empire |
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Frederik VII, King of Denmark[17] | 1808–1863 | 21 June 1849 |  Denmark |
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Oscar I, King of Sweden and Norway[18] | 1799–1859 | 21 June 1849 |  Sweden-Norway |
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Ernst August, King of Hanover[19] | 1771–1851 | 3 July 1849 |  Hanover |
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Alexander II, Emperor of Russia[20] | 1818–1881 | 13 September 1855 | Russian Empire |
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Napoléon III, Emperor of the French | 1808–1873 | 13 September 1855 |  France |
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Prince Aleksandr Ivanovich Baryatinsky | 1815–1879 | 19 February 1860 | Russian Empire |
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Jan van Swieten | 1807–1888 | 12 May 1874 | Netherlands |
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Albert, King of Saxony[21] | 1828–1902 | 9 July 1878 |  Saxony |
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Friedrich, German Crown Prince and Crown Prince of Prussia[22] | 1831–1888 | 23 August 1878 |  German Empire |
Later Friedrich III, German Emperor and King of Prussia |
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Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia[23] | 1828–1885 | 23 August 1878 | Prussia |
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Alexander III, Emperor of Russia[24] | 1845–1894 | 17 March 1881 | Russian Empire |
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Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia[25] | 1859–1941 | 8 September 1889 | German Empire |
Last awarded for diplomatic purposes |
Wilhelmina
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Joannes Benedictus van Heutsz | 1851–1924 | 14 March 1903 | Netherlands |
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1904–1909) |
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George VI, King of the United Kingdom[26] | 1895–1952 | 1 July 1946 | United Kingdom |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1882–1945 | 15 April 1948 |  United States |
Posthumously awarded |
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