List of honours of Belgium awarded to heads of state and royalty explained

This article serves as an index – as complete as possible – of all the honorific orders or similar decorations awarded by Belgium, classified by Monarchies chapter and Republics chapter, and, under each chapter, recipients' countries and the detailed list of recipients.

Awards

• For Leopold Recipients, see the list of grand cordons of the Order of Leopold

Monarchies

Europe

Belgian Royal Family

See main article: List of honours of the Belgian Royal Family by country.

• King Philippe:
  • Grand Master and Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, military division
  • Grand Master of the Order of the African Star (dormant), Royal Order of the Lion (dormant), Order of the Crown & Order of Leopold II
• Queen Mathilde : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• King Albert II : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, military division^[1]
• Queen Paola : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Princess Astrid & Prince Lorenz : Grand Cordons of the Order of Leopold
• Prince Laurent : Grand Cordons of the Order of Leopold, military division
• Princess Claire : Grand Cordons of the Order of Leopold

Norwegian Royal Family

See main article: List of honours of the Norwegian Royal Family by country.

• King Harald V: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, military division °
• Queen Sonja: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, civil division °
• Princess Astrid: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown°

Swedish Royal Family

See main article: List of honours of the Swedish Royal Family by country.

• King Carl XVI Gustaf: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1977)
• Queen Silvia: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1977)
• Crown Princess Victoria: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2001)

Danish Royal Family

See main article: List of honours of the Danish Royal Family by country.

• Queen Margrethe II: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Crown Prince Frederik: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Crown Princess Mary: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
• Prince Joachim: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
• Princess Marie: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold II
• Princess Benedikte: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown

Dutch Royal Family

See main article: List of honours of the Dutch Royal Family by country.

• King Willem-Alexander:
  • Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2016)
• Queen Máxima:
  • Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2016)
  • Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) (2006)
• Princess Beatrix: Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold - Civil division (2003)
• Prince Constantijn: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Belgium)
• Princess Laurentien : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) (2016)
• Princess Irene: Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Princess Margriet: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
• Pieter van Vollenhoven: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown

Luxembourgish Grand-Ducal Family

See main article: List of honours of the Luxembourgish Grand-Ducal Family by country.

• Grand Duke Henri: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1994)
• Grand Duchess Maria Teresa: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1994)
• Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
• Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
• Prince Guillaume: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (1994)

Spanish Royal Family

See main article: List of honours of the Spanish Royal Family by country.

• King Felipe VI: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• King Juan Carlos: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Queen Sofía: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
  • Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold Infanta Cristina: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1994)

Liechtenstein

• Prince Nikolaus: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (as former ambassador of Liechtenstein in Belgium)
• Alexander Frick: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold^[2]
• Leopold Freiherr von Imhof: Knight's Cross of the Order of Leopold^[3]

British Royal Family

See main article: List of honours of the British Royal Family by country.

• Queen Elizabeth II : - 1963 - Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold

Asia

Thai Royal Family

See main article: List of honours of the Thai Royal Family by country.

• Queen Sirikit: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1960)

Japanese Imperial Family

See main article: List of honours of the Japanese Imperial Family by country.

• Emperor Emperus Akihito: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Empress Emerita Michiko: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Emperor Naruhito: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Empress Masako: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold

Former

Bulgarian Royal Family

• King Simeon II: Knight Grand Cross of Order of the Crown (Belgium)

Iranian Imperial Family

See main article: Pahlavi dynasty.

• Empress Farah: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold

Republics

Bulgaria

• President Georgi Parvanov : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2003)
• Zorka Petrova Parvanova : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2003)\

China

• President Xi Jinping : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2014)

Estonia

• President Toomas Hendrik Ilves : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2008)
• Evelin Ilves : Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) (2008)

France

• Nicolas Sarkozy : Commander of the Order of Leopold (ministre de l’Économie, des Finances et de l’Industrie, 2004)

Finland

• President Tarja Halonen : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2004)
• Pentti Arajärvi : Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (2004)

Hungary

• President László Sólyom: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2008)

Latvia

• President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2007)^[4]

Lithuania

• President Valdas Adamkus : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2006)^[5]
• Alma Adamkienė : Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (2006)

Poland

• President Lech Wałęsa : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• President Aleksander Kwaśniewski : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1999)
• Jolanta Kwaśniewska : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1999)

Portugal

• President Jorge Sampaio : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2005)
• Maria José Rodrigues Ritta : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2005)

Turkey

• President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2015) ^[6]

See also

• Mirror page : List of honours of the Belgian Royal Family by country

External links

• Norway: See also the following decorations pages: Harald, Sonja, Haakon, Mette-Marit, Mârtha Louise, Astrid and Ragnhild

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1 August 2023 . Z.M. BOUDEWIJN . https://web.archive.org/web/20080919101650/http://www.ars-moriendi.be/BOUDEWIJN.HTM . 19 September 2008 . moriendi.be . nl.
2. Web site: Frommelt . Fabian . 31 December 2011 . Frick, Alexander . 18 May 2023 . Historisches Lexikon . de.
3. Web site: Quaderer . Rupert . 31 December 2011 . Imhof, Leopold Baron von . 3 October 2023 . Historisches Lexikon . de.
4. http://www.vvf.lv/biography Biography
5. Lithuanian Presidency, article about the Belgian State visit in 2006
6. News: King Philippe of Belgium presents Order of Leopold to President Erdogan. 5 October 2015. Presidency of the Republic of Turkey. 26 October 2015.