Contributor Biographies

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE – CONFRATERNAL ORDERS OF RELIGIOUS-MILITARY ORIGIN

PART TWO – SINGLE CLASS COLLAR ORDERS

PART THREE – EXTANT ORDERS OF CHIVALRY

PART FOUR – DYNASTIC, HOUSE AND ROYAL SERVICE ORDERS
Section I: Europe – Reigning and Non-Reigning Dynasties
Section II: Rest of the World – Non-Reigning Dynasties

PART FIVE – LADIES ORDERS

PART SIX – STATE MERIT ORDERS

PART SEVEN – OTHER INSTITUTIONS
Section I: Royal Sponsored or Founded Non-State Orders
Section II: Nobiliary, Chivalric, and Royal Confraternities and Institutions
Section III: Orders Founded by Royal Claimants in Exile
Section IV: Orders revived by questionable authority

APPENDICES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX OF SELF-STYLED ORDERS

INDEX