This article is about House Order of the Golden Lion. For other uses, see Order of the Lion.
House Order of the Golden Lion
Sash, badge and breast star of the House Order of the Golden Lion
Type
State Order (formerly) Dynastic Order (currently)
Established
14 August 1770 {Hesse-Kassel)[1] October 1875 (Hesse and by Rhine)[2]
Royal house
House of Hesse
Motto
Virtute et Fidelitate
Awarded for
Civil and military merit
Grand Master
Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse
Grades
Knight
Former grades
Grand Cross Commander 1st Class Commander 2nd Class
Precedence
Next (higher)
Ludwig Order (after 1875)
Next (lower)
Military Merit Order (Hesse-Kassel, until 1851); Wilhelmsorden (Hesse-Kassel, until 1875) Order of Philip the Magnanimous (Hesse and by Rhine)
Ribbon bar of the order
The House Order of the Golden Lion (German: Hausorden vom Goldenen Löwen) was an order of the German Landgraviate and Electorate of Hesse-Kassel and later, the Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine. It was first instituted in 1770 by Landgrave Frederick II, in honour of and under the patronage of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, an ancestor of the House of Hesse, and was intended to award auspicious merit.
^Hessen-Kassel (1780). "Berzeichnis der Ritter des Fürstliche-Hessen-Casselischen Ordens vom Goldenen Löwen". Hochfürstl.-Hessen-Casselischer Staats- und Adreß-Calender: 1780. Waisen- u. Findelhaus.
^Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Großherzogtums Hessen: 1878. Staatsverl. 1878. p. 43.
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