Ordre de la Toison d'Or - Order of the Golden Fleece

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Families and Dynasties

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NOTES:

• Work in progress
• List of the relevant families directly or indirectly related to the Order of the Golden Fleece
• Particles dropped, for reasons of clarity
• Grouped by regions (keeping in mind that these regions have evolved throughout the centuries
• Mention of ancestral and/or main political region of a family
• Reference to various periods of the Golden Fleece are...
  • Original, unified Order : 1430-1700
  • Spanish branch : since 1700
  • Austrian branch : since 1711 ____________________________________________________________________________________

Low Countries (mosty relevant for 1430-1700)

• Arenberg - Ancestral home : Burg Aremberg (Germany) - Main seat : Egmont Palace (Brussels)
• Bournonville - Ancestral home : Bournonville (France)
• Croÿ - Ancestral home: Crouy-Saint-Pierre (France) - Main seat : Château du Roeulx (Belgium)
• Egmont - Ancestral home : Slot op den Hoef, Egmond (Netherlands)
• Glymes - Ancestral home : Glimes (Belgium) - Main seat : Markiezenhof (Netherlands)
• Hénin ()
• Lalaing ()
• Lannoy ()
• Ligne ()
• Luxembourg ()

France (mostly relevant for 1430-1700 and Spanish branch)

• Bauffremont ()
• Bonaparte ()
• Bourbon ()
• Bourgogne ()
• Harcourt ()
• Melun ()
• Montmorency ()
• Noailles ()
• Orléans ()

Spain (mostly relevant for 1430-1700 and Spanish branch)

• Alba ()
• Borgia ()
• de la Cerda ()
• Pérez de Guzmán ()
• Priego ()

Portugal (mostly relevant for 1430-1700 and Spanish branch)

• Bragança ()

Austria (relevant for 1430-1700 and Austrian branch)

• Breuner (Steyr)
• Dietrichstein (Carinthia)
• Habsburg (Vienna)
• Harrach (Niederösterreich)
• Lamberg (Carinthia)
• Liechtenstein (Liechtenstein)
• Paar ()
• Starhemberg (Steyr)
• Thun und Hohenstein (Tyrol)

Bohemia (relevant for Austrian branch)

• Colloredo-Mansfeld ()
• Czernin von Chudenitz (Černínové z Chudenic) ()
• Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau (Chynský ze Vchynic a z Tetova) ()
• Kolowrat (Kolovratové) ()
• Lobkowicz (Lobkovic) ()
• Rosenberg (Rožmberka) ()
• Schwanberg (Švamberka) ()
• Schwarzenberg (Švarcenberk) ()
• Sternberg (Šternberkové) ()
• Waldstein (Valdštejn) ()
• Windisch Graetz ()
• Wratislaw von Mitrowitz (Vratislavové z Mitrovic) ()

Hungary (relevant for Austrian branch)

• Esterházy de Galántha ()

Balkans (relevant for Austrian branch)

• Auersperg (Slovenia)
• Erdödy (Croatia)
• Festetics (Feštetići) (Croatia)

Bavaria (relevant for Austrian branch)

• Thurn und Taxis (Regensburg)
• Wittelsbach ()

Germany (mostly relevant for Austrian branch)

• Fugger ()
• Fürstenberg ()
• Neipperg ()
• Oldenburg ()
• Preussen ()
• Sachsen ()
• Schleswig Holstein ()
• Schönborn ()
• Württemberg ()

Russia (relevant for Austrian branch)

• Romanov ()

Ireland (relevant for Spanish and Austrian branches)

• Fitz-James Stuart ()
• O'Donnell ()
• Taaffe ()
• Walsh ()

Italy (mostly relevant for Spanish branch)

• Acquaviva d'Aragona (Napels)
• Caetani (Pisa/Rome)
• Capua (Capua)
• Caracciolo (Napels)
• Carafa (Napels)
• Colonna (Rome)
• de' Medici (Florence)
• della Rovere (Urbino)
• Doria (Genoa)
• Erba Odescalchi (Milan/Rome)
• Este (Ferrara)
• Gonzaga (Mantua)
• Grimaldi (Genoa)
• Montefeltro (Urbino)
• Orsini (Rome)
• Pignatelli (Napels)
• Savoia (Torino)
• Sforza (Milan)
• Spinola (Genoa)
• Strozzi (Florence)
• Visconti (Milan)