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Poland: Orders, Honours, and Decorations

Name Tenure
Family
Order of Merit of the Polish Republic
Established 1990.[Q64]
Grand Cordon
1991; *1921

Schleswig-H-S-G-Greece (218.2)

Order of Military Virtue
Established 1792 by King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski of Poland. Abolished 1793. Reinstated soon after. Absorbed into the Imperial Russian
honours system, 1815. Abolished 1830s. Revived, 1919.[Q64]
Order of St Stanislaus
Established 1765 by King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski of Poland. Absorbed into the Imperial Russian honours system, 1831.[Q64]
Order of Poland Restored (Polonia Restituta)
Established 1921 as a successor to the Order of St Stanislaus.[Q64]
Order of the White Eagle
Established 1705 by King Augustus II of Poland. Absorbed into the Imperial Russian honours system, 1831. Restored the Polish Republic, 1931.[Q64]
Knight
†1961       
Zogu (3)

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