Order of the Crown (Romania)

The Order of the Crown of Romania is a chivalric order set up on 14 March 1881 by King Carol I of Romania to commemorate the establishment of the Kingdom of Romania. It was awarded as a state order until the end of the Romanian monarchy in 1947. It was revived on 30 December 2011 as a dynastic order.

Classes
The order had five classes, most of them with limited numbers:
 * Grand Cross (limited to 25)
 * Grand Officer (limited to 80)
 * Commander (limited to 150)
 * Officer (limited to 300)
 * Knight (unlimited numbers)

Decoration
The religious character of the model of 1881 is a red-enamelled, eight-pointed Maltese Cross with wider margin of gold and white. In the angles of the cross were "C"s, the initials of the founder. The medallion in the middle of the cross shows a royal crown on dark red background. The medallion is surrounded by a white-frost edge surrounded the inscription PRIN NOI INSINE (by ourselves) and the order's foundation date of 14 March 1881. On the back of the medallion is the day of the statute as well as the years 1866 (referendum), 1877 (complete Romanian independence), 1881 (proclamation of Carol as King of Romania).

Other
The Order's sash or ribbon is light blue with two silver stripes. Grand Cross members wore the decoration on a sash from the right shoulder to left waist, Grand Officers and Commanders around the neck and Knights and Officers on the left breast. For the two highest classes of the order an eight-pointed silver star was also worn on the left breast, Grand Cross members wearing it as an order-insignia and Grand Officers as a medallion, surrounded by 4 royal crowns since 1932.

Grand Cross

 * Ibrahim of Johor – 1920
 * Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
 * Princess Muna al-Hussein
 * Dhimitër Beratti (grand officer)
 * Jean-Baptiste Billot
 * Arved Crüger
 * Joseph Dietrich
 * John Dill
 * Max von Fabeck
 * Josef Harpe
 * William Horwood
 * August Kanitz
 * Gheorghe Manoliu
 * Živojin Mišić
 * Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller
 * Mihailo Petrović
 * Radomir Putnik
 * Samuel Hill
 * Vidkun Quisling, humanitarian work
 * Lt.-col. Constantin C. Roșescu, participant in Operation Autonomous
 * Lech Wałęsa, 2nd President of Poland
 * George Julian Zolnay

Commander class

 * Erich Abraham
 * Arthur Irving Andrews (1878–1967), American college professor.   Awarded c. 1929 for "historical writings on Rumanian subjects".
 * Kurt Lottner

Order class

 * Kennedy, Clyde McLean Awarded July 1919 - Lieutenant 20th Battalion (CEF)