
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)