The Dynastic Orders of Non-regnant Royal and Princely Houses
Some of the oldest, most prestigious and "finest" Chivalric Orders are the orders of deposed and non-regnant royal and princely houses.
The Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, the Italian Royal House of Savoy, the Order of the Golden Fleece, the Austrian branch of House Habsburg-Lothringen, the Constantinian Order of Saint George, the Hispano-Italian Royal House of the Bourbons of the Two Sicilies, the Order of Prince Danilo I, the Montenegrin royal house of Petrović-Njegoš and many others, are among those most prestigious and "finest" Chivalric Orders are the orders of deposed and non-regnant royal and princely houses.