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PATRONS AND MEMBERS

OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR ORDERS OF CHIVALRY

Patrons

• †H.R.H. Philip, Duke of Württemberg (1893-1975)
• †H.Em. Cardinal Giuseppe Caprio, Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and President Emeritus of the Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy See (1914-2005)
• †H.Em. Cardinal Alfons Maria Stickler, SDB, Librarian and Archivist Emeritus of the Holy Roman Church (1910-2007)
• †H.Em. Cardinal Pio Laghi, Patron Cardinal of Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, Prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Catholic Education (1910-2007)
• †H.Em. Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Paul’s Without-The-Walls (1925-2017)
• H.B. Ignatius Joseph III Yohan, Patriarch of Anchioch and All of the East of the Syrians
• H.E. Ab. Dr. Bruno Platter, past Gran Master of the Teutonic Order of Holy Mary in Jerusalem
• †H.I. & R.H. Archduke Dr. Otto of Austria (1912-2011)
• H.I. & R.H. Archduke Andreas Salvator of Austria
• †H.I. & R.H. Archduke József Árpád of Austria (1933-2017)
• Countess Dr Walburga Maria Douglas, née H.I. & R.H. Archduchess Walburga Maria of Austria
• H.R.H. Dom Duarte Pio, Duke of Bragança
• HH.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna of Russia
• H.R.H. Prince Serge of Yugoslavia
• H.R.H. Prince Leka II of the Albanians
• H.I. & R.H. Archduke Josef Karl of Austria
• H.B. Fouad Boutros Ibrahim Twal, emeritus Archbishop and Patriarch of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem
  

Executive Committee

President/Chairman

• Pier Felice degli Uberti

Vice President

• Diego de Vargas Machuca

Deputy Chairman 

• Marco Horak
  

Secretary  General

• Maria Loredana Pinotti
  

Fellows

• Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent (1915-2005)
• Cecil Humphery-Smith (1928-2021)
• Szabolcs de Vajay (1921-2010)
• Jonathan Riley-Smith (1938-2016)
• Roger Harmignies (1922-2017)
• Baron Hervé Pinoteau (1927-2020)
• Carlo Tibaldeschi (1936-2020)
• Guy Stair Sainty
• Elizabeth Ann Roads

Members

• Alexandre Abramov (Decorations, Medals and other Awards of Patriarchate of Moscow)
• Francisco Acedo y Fernández (Chivalric Orders Iconography)
• Paolo Arfilli (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Royal House of Savoy)
• Jonas Arnell-Szurkos (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Kingdom of Sweden)
• Ádám Berniczei-Roykó (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of Kingdom of Hungary)
• Alessio Butti (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of Balkan Area)
• D’Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton (Medieval Monarchical Orders)
• Luigi G. de Anna (Scandinavian Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards)
• Emiddio de Franciscis di Casanova (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies)
• Nicola Ditta (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Kingdom of Italy)
• Stanislaw W. Dumin (Orders, Decorations, Medals and other Awards of the Imperial House of Romanov)
• Marcos Fernández de Béthencourt (Order, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta)
• Thomas Frasheri (Orders, Decorations, Medals and other Awards of the Royal House of Albania)
• Manuel Fuertes de Gilbert y Rojo (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Royal House of Spain)
• Fernando Garcia-Mercadal y Garcia-Loygorry (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Kingdom of Spain)
• Alberto Giovanelli (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Royal House of Savoy)
• Rafal Heydel-Mankoo (Polish orders, decorations, medals and Awards)
• Marco Horak, Deputy Chairman (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Austro-Hungarian Empire)
• Jovan Jonovski (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Republic of Macedonia)
• Henrik Klackenberg (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Kingdom of Sweden)
• Szilárd Kökényessy (Webmaster)
• Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard (Scandinavian Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards)
• Manuel Ladrón de Guevara e Isasa (Noble Corporations and Associations of the Kingdom of Spain)
• Manfredi Landi (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Ducal House of Parma)
• Alberto Lembo (Italian Law 178 of 3 March 1951, foundation of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and the other contents of the Law)
• George Lucky (State Merit Orders of Mongolia and the former States of USSR excluding Russia, Belarus and Ukraine)
• Carlos Mack Castelletti (International law expert - legal advisor)
• Carlo Emanuele Manfredi (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Ducal House of Parma)
• Alfonso Marini Dettina (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Royal House of the Two Sicilies)
• Per Nordenvall (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Kingdom of Sweden)
• Salvatore Olivari de la Moneda (Decorations, Medals and other Awards of Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East of the Syrians)
• Manuel Pardo de Vera y Díaz (Noble Corporations and Associations of the Kingdom of Spain)
• Maria Loredana Pinotti, Secretary General (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Republic of San Marino)
• Michel Popoff (Heraldry in chivalric orders and awarding systems)
• Elizabeth Ann Roads (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the United Kingdom)
• Ciro Romano, (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Holy See)
• Bianca Maria Rusconi (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Ducal House of Modena and Reggio)
• Guy Stair Sainty (Orders of St John, Members of the Alliance of the Orders of St John)
• Kaare Seeberg Sidselrud (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Kingdom of Norway)
• Michel Teillard d’Eyry (Orders, Decorations, Medals and other Awards of the Republic of France)
• Tudor-Radu Tiron (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Kingdom and Republic of Romania)
• Pier Felice degli Uberti, President/Chairman (Control of the whole Register)
• Diego de Vargas Machuca, Vice President (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Royal House of the Two Sicilies)
• George V. Vilinbakhov (Orders, Decorations, Medals and other Awards of the Russian Federation)
• Mario Volpe (Italian Law 178 of 3 March 1951, foundation of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and the other contents of that Law)
• Robert Watt, President International Academy of Heraldry - AIH (Heraldry in Canadian Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards)
• George Way of Plean (Scottish Clans)
• Carlo Zanardi Landi (Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of the Ducal House of Lucca)